Dear Parents,

This week is full of fun and academically challenging tasks for students to complete in and out of class.  <strong>Most importantly, we will have a Social Studies test on Wednesday and a Math test on Friday. </strong>I have several report cards still in my possession.  If you cannot schedule a conference, please send a note with your child requesting the report card, and I will send it home for you to view.  You may contact me at agkrecik@cps.edu.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>We will continue analyzing food labels, looking for nutritional information and examining serving size.  Guided Reading groups will continue studying different topics related to health and nutrition.  As a class, we will examine food advertisements, and determine what strategies are used to sell products.<strong></strong>

<strong>Writing: </strong><strong>We will continue to create different types of poems to include in poetry books.  These are:  Color, Creature Alliteration, and Concrete.  Students will be writing poetry as homework assignments throughout the week.  Students will be given time to type and illustrate poems in computer lab.  The completed project will be graded based on book requirements and a rubric. </strong>

<strong>Math:</strong> This week students will continue lessons from Unit 7.  Specifically, students will continue adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.  We will cover lessons 7.9,  7.10, and 7.11.  We will review on Thursday, and students will take the Unit test on Friday.

<strong>Science: </strong>Last week we were unable to begin our new Science unit, so this week we will begin Levers and Pulleys.  Students will construct a class-1 lever.  Students will identify the fulcrum and lever arm, and students will determine the best position of each.

<strong>Social Studies: </strong><strong>We will complete our study of the events leading up to the Revolutionary war in Chapter 10 this week.  We will take notes on the Battle of Bunker Hill on Monday.  Students will create timelines of the major events that led to the war in cooperative groups.  These will be completed in class and sue on Wednesday.  We will take our unit test on Wednesday.  Students, as usual, can use their notes to complete the test.</strong>

<strong>Spelling: </strong>We will continue spelling practice this week.  Please study with your child the spelling words.  The spelling test will be Friday.<strong></strong>