<p align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Room 315 Weekly Update</span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Oct. 19, 2009 – Oct. 23, 2009</strong></p>

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<p align="center"><strong>Math</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">This week we will practice place value skills using a calculators. We will learn how to collect, organize, and interpret a set of data. We will also work on organizing the data about the number of people in our families.</td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Science</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">This week we will learn about skeletal muscles, muscles, tendons, and tissues. We will make a leg model and a thumb model.</td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Language Arts</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">This week we will learn the new spelling words from this week’s selection, “Mae Jemison: Space Scientist”. The words are:<strong> tighten, type, rhyme, spite, supply, pilot, mile, midnight, icicle, skylight, decide, science, overnight, might, and wired.</strong> We will read the selection Mae Jemison: Space Scientist, we will also learn about main idea and details.</td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Social Studies</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">We will learn about basic features on the Earth’s surface, we will analyze a landform map and discuss how landforms affect people’s lives.

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<td width="638" valign="top"><strong>Homework:</strong>  

<strong>Monday</strong> – Study Links 2.4, spelling words 5x each, read at least 30min.

<strong>Tuesday</strong> – Study Links 2.5, read at least 30min.

<strong>Wednesday</strong> – Read at least 30min.

<strong>Thursday</strong> –Study links 2.6, read at least 30min.</td>
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<td width="638" valign="top"><strong>Reminders:</strong>

- This week we will be doing the Chicago Benchmark Assessments.  Tuesday students will do a Reading Assessment and on Wednesday they will do the Mathematics Assessment.  These assessments are designed to better align our curriculum with the Illinois state standards, and as a tool to guide our instruction in the classroom.

- Scholastic book club orders will be collected on Wed., Oct. 21<sup>st</sup>.

- I would really appreciate it if all field trip slips and monies be turned in by Thursday, Oct. 22<sup>nd</sup>.

- Cold and Flu season is here and we really need tissue paper and paper towels, if you could donate it would be greatly appreciated.

- No classes on Friday, Oct. 23<sup>rd</sup>.</td>
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