Mrs. Valles's Class

Language Arts : This week in Language arts we will continue Narnia, get back on track with our spelling words, and embark on a new writing unit. We will be learning about the realistic fiction and begin plan our own short story in the genre. To accompany this, our grammar lessons this week will be about quotations. Welcome back from our Thanksgiving break! I hope everyone got a chance to spend some quality time with family!  Math: We will be learning about the decimal notation for money for our next unit. There will be short quizzes on Tuesday and Friday to check understanding. Even though we are moving out of our multiplication and division units, our multiplication facts are still really important! Please take any opportunity  possible to practice them at home. Science : This week in Science we will dive into our next human body system, the nervous system.  We will learn what the nervous system is and the major components of this system as well as the parts of a ner

Language Arts : We will be reading Narnia this week, taking the 70 phonogram test on Monday and reciting our Thanksgiving poem on Tuesday. There will be no spelling words. Math: We will be reviewing all of our content up to this point and taking the Unit 4 test on Tuesday. Science : We will wrap up our skeletal system unit with the story of Achilles’ heel.  The quiz will be on Tuesday! History: This week in history we will review and test our knowledge on the life of Julius and Augustus Caesar! We will have a short review session then take the quiz on Monday. Please be sure to study!

Language Arts : This week we will continue to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Spelling will be normal this week with a test on Friday. In grammar we will be reviewing linking verbs and predicate nominatives as well as learning about predicate adjectives. There will be a grammar test on Friday and study guide will go home Monday. Just as a heads up, we are re-testing all 70 phonograms next week on Monday the 20th. We review these every day so everyone should prepared. Also, the recitation for First Thanksgiving of All will be on the 21st before break! Math: We are learning our 9 facts this week and will quiz on the 9’s Wednesday. After that we will review all of chapter 4 before taking the Unit test on Tuesday the 21st. Science : This week we will continue our study of bones.  We will learn more about joints and write an informational paragraph about them.  Additionally we will discuss how to care for our bones and what happens when we fracture our bones.  A st

No school on Friday! Language Arts : We will start reading the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe this week. Please send your child in with their copy by Wednesday. Since there is no school on Friday, we will be learning 15 spelling words on Monday and Tuesday in order to take the test on Thursday. Our students will be finishing their Personal Narratives and using the computer to type them up on Tuesday. This will give the class valuable typing and publishing experience. Our grammar focus this week will be the use of state of being verbs as they relate to predicate nominatives and diagramming. Catch a Little Rhyme will be recited for a grade this Wednesday and students will be assigned the poem First Thanksgiving of All to be recited on November 21st. Math: This week we will be practicing our 8 and 9 multiplication facts. Please be practicing memorization of these at home with your kids. There will be a short quiz on Friday assessing 8 facts. Science : This week we will