Week in Review: 1/2/18-1/5/18

Happy New Year,  all!

We hope the winter break was restful and filled with quality time together. Now that the crazy pre-holiday season has passed, we're feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the coming months of Marshall events. Here's how we've begun our year together.

This week in academics:

• We began reading another great Gary Paulsen book, Woodsong.
• We had a week filled with FUN-ctuation. We punctuation dialogue, direct addresses, question tags, and intro words. We sure do love commas around here. 😀
• We practiced distinguishing between multiplication and division when facing word problems.
• We practiced a shortcut we call basic fact division involving crossing off zeroes when faced with a problem like, 600 ÷ 30.
• We began learning geometry terms (line, point, collinear points, ray, line segment, parallel, perpendicular, intersecting)
• We started using Front Row, a math practice website that is individualized based on each student.

Looking Ahead:

• Next week, we'll start expert's homework back up.
• Next week, we'll send home the traveling folder, to be signed and returned by Friday.
• Head's up: Science Fair projects are due the last week of February, so we'll begin prepping at the end of this month. 
• NO SCHOOl on MLK day (Monday, January 15th...one week from this coming Monday.)