<p align="center"><strong> Happy New Year! </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>We got off to an extremely busy start but here  </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 learn about metric units of measuring length. We will find personal references for estimating lengths of 1 centimeter, 10 centimeters, and 1 meter, how to measure to the nearest millimeter and convert millimeters into centimeters. We will be taking the test for Unit 4 on Friday (students should focus on lessons 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.8). </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 work on our magnetism and electricity unit. We will be looking at what kind of materials magnets stick to, what happens when 2 or more magnets stick together, how magnets interact with each other, does an iron object have to touch a magnet to become a temporary magnet, and does magnetic force go through all materials. </td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Language Arts</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">We will learn the new spelling words for our story “Business is looking up”. The words are: <strong>product, credit, napkin, dentist, infect, comment, cannot, suggest, within, glacier, progress, topsoil, princess, rewind, joyful, echo, expert, bargain, stencil, predict. </strong>We will also learn about compound words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes. We will have the spelling test and the comprehension test on Friday.</td>
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<p align="center"><strong>Social Studies</strong></p>
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<td width="506" valign="top">This week we will learn about what resources the US needs to conserve for the future, how weather and climate vary along the US, and about world regions.

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

<strong>Monday</strong> – Study Link 4.8, ISAT Math Coach pgs. 84-88. Define vocabulary words, read at least 30min.

<strong>Tuesday</strong> –Study Links 4.9, read pgs. 172-177 of this week’s story, read at least 30min.

<strong>Wednesday</strong> – ISAT Math coach pgs. 12-16, Read at least 30min.

<strong>Thursday</strong> – Study Links 4.10, study for comprehension test on Business is looking up story, read at least 30min.</td>
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<td width="638" valign="top"><strong>Reminders:</strong>

-As you can see we are already starting to prepare our students for ISAT (which will be on March 1-12). There is a lot of material to cover so you are definitely going to see some of the workbooks brought home. The only thing that we ask is that you make sure that the students work uninterrupted during the time that they are working on the prep books, it does not have to be for a specified amount of time, just quiet. Thanks you in advance for your help!</td>
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