<p align="center">Week 17 Bulletin </p>

Important Dates:

<span style="color: #800080">January Birthdays!</span>

<span style="color: #800080">Bry’on :  Jan. 2<sup>nd</sup></span>

<span style="color: #800080">Camilla:  Jan. 10<sup>th</sup></span>

<span style="color: #800080">Darwin:  Jan. 15<sup>th</sup></span>

<span style="color: #800080">Gia:  Jan. 16<sup>th</sup></span>

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<span style="color: #3366ff">January 18<sup>th</sup>:  MLK Jr. Day!  NO SCHOOL!</span>

<span style="color: #3366ff">January 29<sup>th</sup>:  End of 2<sup>nd</sup> Quarter:  NO SCHOOL</span>

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<span style="color: #3366ff">January 22<sup>nd</sup>:  I will be at an ISAT training and there will be a subsitute</span>

 

<span style="color: #800080">This week will begin more rigorous homework compared to previous weeks.  Students will receive more ISAT practice in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics as well as cursive writing homework.  We will have our Winter Learning First Assessments this week.  Please make sure your child is on time to school everyday.  Tuesday and Wednesday are more crucial than usually because there are no make-up days for these tests.  This test gives students practice on how to behave as well as answer questions during ISAT testing.  </span>

<span style="color: #800080">**The prompt for the paper I sent home was the following:</span>

<span style="color: #800080">Ms. Perez said that field day is in a month.  Write a letter to a new student explaining the events.  Do not forget to use order words.  </span>
<p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #339966">Instruction for the Week</span></p>

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<span style="color: #339966">Literacy:</span>

<span style="color: #339966">Besides having our Reading Benchmark Assessment on Tuesday, students will continue to work on ISAT practice problems.  This week, we will focus on compound words, synonyms/antonyms, and activating prior knowledge.  You will receive practice ISAT problems as homework. </span>

<span style="color: #339966">Mathematics:</span>

<span style="color: #339966">In Math, we will work on understanding place value, line segments, and using models to read numbers.  We will also work on ISAT practice problems that focus on points on a grid, two-dimensional figures, combining shapes, symmetry, congruence, and similarity. </span>

<span style="color: #339966">Science:</span>

<span style="color: #339966">Last week in Science, students explored mock rocks as geologist by making observations and measurements.  This week, students will continue to be geologists and take the Mock Rocks apart, sort the minerals, and separate the components of the Mock Rock to discover what was used to create these fake rocks. </span>

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<span style="color: #339966">Please feel free to email me any time you have questions or concerns. </span>