<p align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Room 315 Weekly Update</span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Oct. 26, 2009 – Oct. 30, 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 work on organizing the data about the number of people in our families, work on line plots and tally charts, learn about making ballpark estimates, and discuss the partial sums method for addition.</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 continue to learn about skeletal muscles, muscles, tendons, and tissues. We will make a thumb model and an arm model with biceps.</td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Language Arts</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">We will be working on using context clues to figure out the meaning of a word. We will also work on out dictionary skills by looking up our spelling words which are:<strong> tighten, type, rhyme, spite, supply, pilot, mile, midnight, icicle, skylight, decide, science, overnight, might, and wired.</strong> We will complete reading the selection Mae Jemison: Space Scientist, and take the comprehension test.  </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 environmental regions and identify different elevations by using an elevation map.

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

<strong>Monday</strong> – Study Links 2.6, define vocabulary words, read at least 30min.

<strong>Tuesday</strong> – Study for Math mid-unit 2 quiz, study for Mae Jemison comprehension test, read at least 30min.

<strong>Wednesday</strong> – Social Studies p. 21, read at least 30min.

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

- Letters will be going home for those students whose student fees have not been paid.  

- Please see the previous post for Literacy Day details.

- Our field trip to see the play/musical 100 Dresses will be on Thursday, Oct. 29<sup>th </sup>. It is our goal to be back by    12:30, just in time for lunch.   

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

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