Today:
Reading Book Clubs started- this means that your child is a member of a group of students all reading the same book. (All the books are connected to our Native American social studies unit.)  They will spend about 15 minutes each day reading their book at school and another 10 minutes discussing the "thick and thin" questions they have written in their composition books.  There should be a paper with examples of each in their composition book for you to see.  They are to write one thick question and answer it, and then write 2 thin questions and answer them.  This is in place of their reading summaries each evening.  They do not have to do double duty. They may still add whatever additional minutes with pure enjoyment reading to their score for you to sign.  If all this is very confusing, please ask me to clarify. 
 The questions and answers each evening are important because they will be used in the group the next day for discussion.  I hope that everyone is able to enjoy their book and have great discussions within their group.

Don't forget Monday's are always practice spelling test night.  Please correct 2X and have parent signature on the paper.

Math:  spiral workbook for Monday, calendar math, and Saxon #28 (6-15).  The three focus problems in the first box are 1/4=  1/5=  and 0.3=

Please look over the math tests, ESPECIALLY the rounding, ordering, naming, and converting test.  These are major skills that must be mastered.  Hopefully, I will not need to use recess time to make sure everyone has got it. 

Finally, if your child has not mastered their math facts, please be sure they are working on them nightly with the sheet I give them.  I would encourage you to have them be able to say the first row without too much trouble to you.  When they struggle with one, help them, and then go back to the beginning of the row again.  It helps the brain remember the facts to keep going back that way.

States were chosen today for our research paper.  I gave them a template to match for their state.  We will be using our atlas and school state books from the library for research sources.  Tomorrow, we will learn how to write our bibliographies to give credit to those sources.  These papers won't be due for a few weeks, but everyone should start looking for their facts.

We had our first Native American village come today.  IT WAS AWESOME!  I will try to take a picture tomorrow so that you can see it.  Hope everyone can get theirs finished by Friday's due date.

Whew!  Is that enough for one day??  Thanks again for checking the blog to help your kids stay on track.  In fact, if you read this tonight, please ask your child to write me one complex sentence (they should know what that is...) about a Native American tribe....and I will reward them with some bonus $$ tomorrow.