Jan. 12-16

Important Dates

-Name That Book qualifier test: New Date/Time: Tuesday, January 13, 7:15 a.m.

-Retake of first 25 states spelling test for those who apply--Friday, January 16
-Monday, January 19: MLK Day, No School
-Wednesday-Friday, January 21-23: Benchmark Testing (practice STAAR tests for Math, Reading, and Science)
-Wednesday, January 28: 12:30 Early Dismissal Day
-April 14-16: 5th grade goes to HISD camp! Hooray! (Many more details to follow in the spring)

What's Coming Up Next Week?
Math: Area, Perimeter, and Volume (Go Math Unit 9)
-homework daily

-check Go Math videos for re-teaching help at home
-Unit 9 Test on Tuesday, January 20

English/Language Arts/Reading:
-Fantasy: Fairytales, Fables, Legends, Myths and More
-Grammar/Language: Pronouns--they take the place of nouns!

-reading log daily
-Wordly Wise daily (unit 14) Test Friday
-Spelling daily- Test Friday

Science: Unit 11 and 12 Life Science
-homework daily (mostly)

Social Studies: Westward Movement, Trail of Tears, War of 1812
-Extra credit Industrial Revolution project due Jan. 23

IB: How We Organize Ourselves (coming soon)

-text organization

-food web organization

-government organization