students wrote a story that had to include dialogue.  They wrote the story, edited with classmates, and then wrote the final draft.

Reading/Spelling

reading Number The Stars by Lois Lowry.  Spelling and vocabulary correspond with the literature book.

Science

Students have been working on Power Points presenting the six simple machines.

Social Studies

performed role playing with themes about the Bill of Rights and how they effect American citizens in everyday life.

Math

Students have been introduced to algebra.

Language Arts -
This week the students were given a test using er  and est correctly when using adjectives that compare.  We reviewed and will have a test for using more and most with adjectivies that compare.  The students were introduced to a persuasive paragraph. They practiced writing plans for this type of paragraph.

Reading - The skill for this week was sequencing events in a story. The students practiced reading  out loud for fluency. In spelling we spelled words that had s sound spelled in several different ways.

Mr. Sassarini

Social Studies - 
 

Reading -

Mrs. Prochnow

Science - 
Students finished their project on inventions and inventors and prepared for a test on the same.  We had a test on Friday.

Reading - 

Mrs. Quinlan

Math -
We finished studying range, median, and mode this week.  We had a test on this on Friday.  We are continuing with "rocket math" and will be doing more practice and testing next week on multiplication facts.

Reading -
We studied fact and non-fact this week, as well as predicting outcomes.  The story we read was called "Gluskabe and the Snow-Bird."