Academics

March Classroom Happenings:

SPELLING

Lesson 25 has words with more letters than you might expect.  Word list:  often, might, they, remember, finally, really, several, everyone, interesting, everybody, known, caught, surprised, island, swimming, camera, December, evening, beginning, February, broccoli, kindergarten, cabinet, serious, temperature

Lesson 26 has compound words.  Word list:  baseball, basketball, upstairs, myself, highway, classroom, anyway, newspaper, something, sometimes, chalkboard, earrings, nighttime, motorcycle, downstairs, softball, weekend, classmate, doorbell, driveway, courtroom, ourselves, heartbroken, teammate, skateboard

Lesson 27 has words with the suffixes –ful, -ly, and –ion.  Word list:  powerful, peaceful, beautiful, slowly, safely, daily, suddenly, carefully, action, location, cheerful, painful, thoughtful, weekly, lately, truthfully, hopefully, invention, correction, pollution, grateful, suspenseful, completely, exactly, separation

Lesson 28 has words with the suffixes –less, -ment, and –ness.  Word list:  helpless, careless, hopeless, payment, statement, movement, goodness, softness, brightness, business, spotless, breathless, worthless, useless, pavement, treatment, punishment, greatness, fairness, darkness

MATH

We are continuing forward with division.  In chapter nine we will be working on dividing money, having zeros in the quotient, and dividing greater numbers.  In chapter nine we will be learning about factors and multiples, prime and composite numbers, evaluate numbers, and finding the mean of a group of numbers.

SCIENCE

We are learning about different types of clouds and how the water cycle works.  After this chapter, we will be learning about different types of animals, their habitats, what they eat, and where they can be found.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We have moved into the southeastern region.  Each student picked a state in this region to research and create some type of display for.  We continue as a whole class to learn about the region as a whole.  We will be finishing this up the middle of March.  Once our presentations on the southeast are finished we will move to the Midwestern region.

***As the month of March comes to a close, the Easter season will be upon us.  I wish each of you and your family a very happy and blessed Easter.  We will be back to learning on April