CELEBRATE!

Language Arte/Reading
The AR Celebration is this coming Thursday. We are having a popcorn/movie party. We can't wait for it to warm up so we can go back outside and play baseball again. The beginning of the Fifth Six Week grading period will start Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

This week we are reviewing our past months' skills during our reading selection. These include irregular verbs, prefixes and suffixes, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings, and making conclusions. The Literature selection is: Alejandro's Gift and the Living Desert.

Spelling Words for this week are as follows:
pair
unhurt
grinning
air
smiled
sadly
care
retell
babies
bear
unlike
cared
scare
hopeful
parties
pear
remake
chopped
bare
unhappy
joking
chair
friendly
carried
helper
farewell
flair
moving
libraries
silently

Math: The students will continue learning basic multiplication facts and placing them in our multiplication made easy booklet. We are also collecting data this week in order to construct pictographs, bargraphs, and problem solve.

Science:
We have started a new unit on Earth's Natural Resources. Some of the words you may want to talk to your child about are: renewable resources, natural resources, non-renewable resources, and inexhaustable resources.

Question of the Week. If it takes 30 minutes to prepare a batch of cookies and 22 minutes to bake the cookies and 10 minutes to cool the cookies, what time could you eat cookies if you started making them at 2:30 pm?