Hello Everyone

Hello Everyone!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to come and meet with me this week about your son or daughter.  As a teacher it is always very insightful to hear a parent’s perspective on students’ learning, and the information helps inform and improve my instruction.  Please do not feel that we need to wait until the next scheduled time to meet.  If at any time you would like to discuss your son or daughter’s progress, feel free at anytime to drop by my classroom, or send me an email at pholt.his@gmail.com.

Next week we will have our annual Fun Day on Wednesday afternoon. If you are able, please come out and cheer us on!

This week we have finished Chapter 5: Divide by Two Digit Numbers in Math. We will be reviewing over the weekend and having a chapter test next week.  In Language Arts we have reviewed the skills and strategies from the theme Nature’s Fury, and we will have a theme test on Monday November 19th.   In Social Studies we have begun to look at the cause of the U.S. Civil War, and slavery.  In Science we have finished our chapter on Cells, and we have begun the next chapter on Plant Systems.  If you would like to preview anything with your son or daughter, we will be doing the following next week:

Math:

• Chapter 5: Review
• Unit 3 Chapter 6: Units of Measure; Lesson 1
• Chapter 5 Test
• Unit 3 Chapter 6: Units of Measure; Lesson 2
• Unit 3 Chapter 6: Units of Measure; Lesson 3

Language Arts

• Preview Paul Bunyan and vocabulary.  Click here to see the Slide show.

Social Studies

• Chapter 2 Lesson 3: The Nation Breaks Apart
• Extension:  Life as a Slave

Science

• Chapter 2 Plant Systems Lesson 1 & 2
• Chapter 1 Test Friday.

Ways you can help your child this weekend:

• Review Math Chapter 5
• Language Arts; review reading and comprehension strategies; Grammar and sentence structure, and elements of a description from the theme Nature’s Fury.
• Science: review Chapter 1 on Cells

• Encourage your child to read at least twenty minutes a day in English.

Have a great weekend,

Patrick Holt