Quarter 3, Week 3:

Language Arts: Students should be memorizing our poem this week, The Adventures of Isabel. Recitations will be on Jan. 22. We will have a condensed week of spelling. We will be composing a three paragraph essay independently after last week’s successful guided effort . Finally, we continue our new novel, The Trumpet of the Swan.

Math: This week we will be working on fractions. First we encounter the number line and then addition and subtraction. We need parent volunteers every week for math groups. Please consider helping out :) and sign up in the sign up genius.

History: In History this week our students will be reading about the Viking explorer, Leif Eriksson, and his travels to Greenland and Iceland. They will recognize that the Vikings were the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the land we now call Canada, and what we know of the Vikings has been discovered by Archaeological discoveries. They will also be learning more geography as we investigate the world map and specifically the northern hemisphere.

Science: This week students will learn and discuss how to care for their ears. They will learn more about the pitch of sound and explore how the pitch of sound can change.