Together - We Will!

Learner’s Gazette

http://es.houstonisd.org/KSmithES/             Volume 6              14th   Edition              Week of November 23, 2009

Finally, here we are at our Thanksgiving break.  A whole five day weekend!  It is a good time for us to review and make sure we understand everything we have gone over the last thirteen weeks here at school.      

 


 

Science

            We learned how to be safe when doing science experiments for observations.  We also studied mater (gas, liquid or solid) and our current subject, natural resources (exhaustible, renewable, and inexhaustible).  We have begun looking at landforms.  Over the break, take time to review these topics.

Social Studies

We learned what it means to be a community of people and where the members of our community come from.  We studied how they got here and why people move, or migrate, from one place to another.   We know the parts of a community are its setting, the people who live there, the economy (way money is earned and taxes paid), and the laws and government of the community.  When we return, we will study the lifestyle of people in the community and the traditional celebrations.

Mathematics

  We are going to finish up on division when we come back from the Thanksgiving break.  Until then, remember to draw your pictures and learn your multiplication facts.  Once you learn them, you will have them forever.  A special heads up to Katrina and many others who have spent a lot of extra time learning their multiplication tables.

Reading/Language Arts

We will finish up our media lessons  this week  and have a little reading passage quiz on Tuesday..  I am proud of the improvement many of you have accomplished over the last few weeks.  Keep using your strategies.

Spelling

Since it is such a short week we will not have any new spelling words this week.  I will give a test over words we have had thus far to see how well you are learning and retaining them.

 

HOMEWORK IS DUE EVERY DAY

Monday:

Need Weekly, Worksheet, and Spelling Book

Reading/LA: Write at least a paragraph about what you will do on your days away.

Math: Assigned by Mrs. Harp

Science:  Write a paragraph or two about the most interesting thing you have learned in science this year.

 

Tuesday:

I will assign a book or stories to you.  You are to read it and write a one page book report.  Return the book or story and the report when you return on November 30th.

 

I suggest that you start early so you can finish before the weekend.


 

 

Tongue Twister for the Week

 

                             Six shiny silver swordfish swam in a shallow stream some Saturday.

                                        RIDDLE:  I go around and around a tree but I never go in.  What am I?

We will not send Tuesday Folders home this week. 

 

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