This Week's Topics 5-14-12

Reading/Grammar/Spelling

• skills test over "Marven of the Great North Woods" on Tuesday
• begin new story "Last Dragon"
• drawing conclusions
• prefixes "pre, con, com"
• suffixes "ful, less, ness"
• adjectives
• spelling- vocabulary words from last 2 stories

Math

• finish chapter 8 test on Monday
• begin chaprter 9 on multiplication and division
• mental multiplication
• number stories
• arrays

Social Studies

• wrap up "Midwest",  quiz sometime this week, watch planners
• begin study of dog breeds,  how dogs help humans

Science

• review plant topic, quiz sometime this week, watch planners

Writing

• continue journal writings
• begin research on dog breed  (taking notes, paraphrasing and summarizing)