Week of 1/24/11 - 1/28/11

Highlights for the Week of 1/24/11 - 1/28/11 in Mrs. Bell's Classroom

Mrs. Bell's Homeroom

English - Adjectives

We have finished this chapter and will have the adjectives TEST ON Tuesday, 1/25. We will review all of the adjectives concepts on Monday. Later in the week, we will do a project in which students list positive adjectives to describe their classmates, and create a character using those adjectives.

Social Studies - The Cherokee / The Midwest

Students will be taking an open book QUIZ on chapter 7, lesson 1 on Monday, 1/24. The quiz will cover the culture of the Cherokee Native Americans in the Southeast. We will then move on to our next region, The Midwest. Students will create a map of the midwest and learn about the waterways in this region.

Science - The Human Body

We will finish up focus on the circulatory system and blood on Monday. Students will take a QUIZ on chapter 4, lesson 1 on Tuesday, 1/25. Lesson 2 of this chapter will focus on the skeletal, muscular & nervous systems.

Mrs. Bell's Reading Class

Reading - Identifying Character, Plot & Setting

The reading skill that we will work on this week is the identification of character, setting and plot. Students will fill out story structure maps as they read fiction to help them organize their thoughts and identify the main characters, setting & plot. We will be using the novel Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to practice this skill. Please note that students will have a QUIZ chapters 1 & 2 of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing on Monday, 1/24. The quiz will cover vocabulary, the problems/solutions, and conclusions that were discussed in class and are in their packets.

Spelling - The VCCV Pattern

This week we will study words with the "VCCV" (Vowel-Consonant-Consonant-Vowel) pattern. The final test will be on Friday, 1/28, and the cursive & workbook pages will also be collected that day.

Mrs. Bell's Math Class

They're back...everyone's favorite..."T-Charts"! Last year, students were introduced to writing "T-Charts", which is also know as the extended response in math on the ISAT tests. At the beginning of the week, we will review the requirements of T-Charts, and how to write one. We will practice this several times before ISAT testing at the end of February. We will also begin chapter 8 with a look at bar graphs and double bar graphs.

Don't forget...

February 21 - President's Day - No School

February 25 - End of Trimester

THANK YOU to the parents who chaperoned our field trip to Argonne on 1/19. We had a fabulous time learning about the science of toys, light waves & states of matter.

GO BEARS!

Mrs. Karen Bell

Reading - Identifying Characters, Plot & Setting