December 7, 2009

Greetings!

A full week of school!

All spelling words will be written in cursive from now on.  The words for the week are:
<ol>
	<li>community – people who live in an area</li>
	<li>organic – without chemicals;   natural food</li>
	<li>restore – bring something back to its original condition</li>
	<li>harvest – the gathering of a crop when it is ripe</li>
	<li>vendor – someone who sells a product</li>
	<li>logo - a graphic symbol of a company</li>
	<li>minority - a group differing in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the <em>majority (more than half)</em></li>
</ol>
We will be working on the story<em> Food from the 'Hood</em> in the Open Court Reader.  Cursive practice continues with upper case letters. 

We are concludingUnit 3 in Math.  We will review the Unit and have the test on Thursday.

In Social Studies, we will be working on latitude and longitude.

There will be a science quiz on Wednesday about coordination and states of matter.