January 11-15, 2016

General Announcements:

• We welcome a few students to our classes! Alli Beth comes to us from Texas, Kiami comes to us from Tuscaloosa and Rahim comes to us from Erwin Intermediate. :)
• We have a student, Alex, who is running a drive collecting items of children's clothing and items to recycle. The clothes can be used, but in good condition. Please send these in as you can. We have large boxes on our hall that will be used to collect these items. Our goal is to have 150 items by the 150th day of school. :) A big thanks goes to her for organizing this event for our hall!
• Please continue to collect Box Tops for our school.  Every box top equals money for our school!
• Girls on the Run registration begins on Monday, January 11th.  Find out more about Girls on the Run at www.girlsontherunbham.org.

• Please check your child’s grades from time to time on INOW.  

Important Dates for This Week

• Report Cards went home last week.  Please return one signed copy.

Important Curriculum Dates

• Friday, January 15:  DOL Test/IXL due

• Friday, January 15:  Vocabulary Test
• Friday, January 15:  Math Quiz on Decimals.

Looking Ahead

• Monday, January 18:  No School due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Tuesday, January 26:  PTO Meeting/Parent Academy 6-:30 p.m.

Curriculum News:

Math News:

**Math- We are starting decimals this week. We began by connecting our previous knowledge of fractions and place-value to decimals. After discussing and understanding the meaning of decimals, we will move into adding and subtracting them. Ultimately, we will learn not only how to add and subtract decimals, but how to multiply, and divide them. 
Homework: Unit #6 pages 19 and 22 and Math Computation

Science News:

**Science- We are still working on how to read and interpret graphs and data charts. We are specifically focused on our ability to look at patterns in data, and being able to make educated inferences about them. When we finish with this, we will move into dealing with matter. We will look at the characteristics of matter, in addition to volume, density, and mass- the whole time looking for evidence that matter is around us, even when we cannot see it.

Language Arts News: homework: Read!!! Read the Tween Tribune Article and take the quiz by Thursday; Study over DOL/complete IXL for Tuesday; Write sentences with each vocabulary word.

**Reading-  Our focus this week will be to analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities or differences in the point of view that they represent.   We will be reading two articles about Christopher Columbus.  

**Vocabulary: New vocabulary words came home today pertaining to the two Christopher Columbus articles.  A quiz will be on Friday.

**Language/Language IXL-  Our focus this week will be on conjunctions. The skills that are assigned for the students to practice will help them with this.  The test will be on Friday.

Social Studies: This week, we will discuss the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the war.

                   

We hope everyone has a great week!