Week of 3/7/2011 - 3/11/2011

Highlights for the Week of 3/7/11 - 3/11/11 in Mrs. Bell's Classroom

Mrs. Bell's Homeroom

English - Unit 3 - Verbs

Students will have a graded review in class on Thursday, 3/10, that will cover lessons 1-8 in the unit. Topics on the review will include action verbs, main & helping verbs, use of and spelling ov present, past & future tense, subject/verb agreement, and irregular verbs. On Friday we will begin a small project reviewing verb tenses that requires writing three paragraphs about the same topic using past, present and future tense. The project's title is, "Tomorrow, Today will be Yesterday".

Social Studies - The Ojibwa
We will begin our study of the Ojibwa Native Americans who reside in the Midwest region of the U.S. Students will learn how they came to live in the Midwest, and how their lives changed when the Europeans settled in North America. They will also create their own traditional "talking stick" that is modeled after a tool used by the Ojibwas.

Science - ISAT Testing / Electricity

Students will be taking the science portion of the ISAT test on Wednesday, 3/9. We will finally begin studying electricity on Friday :)

Mrs. Bell's Reading Class

Spelling - Words with a Prefix or a Suffix

The final test for this lesson is scheduled for Friday, 3/11. The cursive page and workbook pages will also be collected that day.

Reading

Next week we will be using the predict/infer strategy, as well as cause and effect. Thinking about story events and personal knowledge helps readers predict likely events. With cause and effect, students will focus on why story events happen and what happens as a result. We will be reading a story about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to practice these skills. Students will also write the last two poems for their poetry project.

Mrs. Bell's Math Class

We are returning to the textbook to finish chapter 19. On Tuesday, we will review the problem solving strategy of comparing strategies. There will be no math on Wednesday, due to the science ISAT tests. We will review for the test on Thursday, and take the TEST on Friday, 3/11.

FYI...

March 4th - No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 7th - No School - Casimir Pulaski Day

March 28th - Spring Break Begins

Enjoy the long weekend!

Mrs. Karen Bell