Welcome Parents and Students:  

Please feel free to check here often for notes and updates on what is going on in our class.

I know this year will be great year!

I have a class of wonderful students and I look forward to teaching and learning from all of them!

Have a great week!

Remember:  Learning is our vehicle to success.

Mrs. Hegger

WEEKLY AGENDA WK Mar 2 – Mar 6

READING/ELA/WRITING
This week the students will discuss author’s purpose for writing, while making connections to text, self and world.  The students will continue to analyze poems to find and discuss figurative language.  In grammar they will practice using prefixes and personal pronouns.
READ, READ, READ 20 minutes every night and get your logs signed!

Reading Log-Week 1 

Vocabulary Words:  expansion, pioneer, migration, ascend, desolate

TESTS:  Thursday

SCIENCE
This week students will describe new substances formed from common chemical reactions.  The students will learn about gravity of falling objects.  They will also demonstrate a change in speed or direction of an objects motion using balanced and unbalanced forces.

TESTS:  Thursday  (study guide provided)

SOCIAL STUDIES
This week the students will discuss key events in the development of the American colonies leading up to the American Revolution.  They will construct a timeline of key events in American History.

TESTS:  Thursday (study guide will be provided)

MATH
This week the students will explain concepts of rations using models and real-life problems.  They will also fill in missing elements in sequences of designs, number patterns, positioned figures and quantities of objects.
 
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE your multiplication facts!

TEST:  Thursday

SPECIAL NOTES
Please remember sign papers go out every Tuesday and must be returned Wednesday.  DON’T FORGET TO SIGN YOUR CHILD’S READING LOG THIS IS A GRADE.  Field Trip this FRIDAY, we are going to Marksville.  If you checked off bring lunch, please do not forget to pack a lunch.  The school will send bag lunches with ham sandwiches.  We are gearing up to start intense iLEAP preparation, please make sure your child attends school everyday, that he/she is completing homework and that he/she takes every opportunity in class/at home to try his/her very best.

Have a great WEEK!
 
Please feel free to email me at rmabshire@lpssonline.com