<p align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Room 315 Weekly Update</span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Sept. 21, 2009 – Sept. 25, 2009</strong></p>

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<p align="center"><strong>MATH</strong></p>
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<p align="center">This week we will be learning about properties of polygons. We will learn about parallelograms, different types of polygons, and play a subtraction facts game.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>SCIENCE</strong></p>
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<p align="center">This week we will assemble a model of a human skeleton, learn in what ways the skeletons of humans and rodents are similar, and reconstruct a rodent skeleton from owl pellets.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>SOCIAL</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>STUDIES</strong></p>
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<p align="center">This week we will continue to learn about the regions of the united States. We will be focusing on the Northeast, South, and Midwest regions.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>LANGUAGE</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>ARTS</strong></p>
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<p align="center">This week we will learn about cause and effect, the elements of a story, characteristics of realistic fiction, and how to find the meanings of words using context clues.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>ART</strong></p>
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<p align="center">This week we will not have art as we only have art on Fridays and we do not have class this Friday.</p>
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<td width="590" valign="top"><strong>Homework:  </strong>Monday:  Social Studies – Region map must be completed

<strong>                           </strong>Wednesday:  Math - Study Links 1.4

                            Thursday:  Math - Study Links 1.5</td>
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<td width="590" valign="top"><strong>Reminders:</strong><strong> </strong>

<strong>- </strong>Tissue boxes, paper towels, and plastic baggies were not included in the supply list but are greatly needed. If you could help us out with this matter it would be greatly appreciated. <strong> </strong>

- Wednesday will be Open House, please join us.

- Friday there will be no classes.

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