Ms.Jones’ & Mrs.Nybakken’s Class Week of: Feb. 17th- 21st Volume: 13 This week in math students are focusing on fractions. Students will be connecting fractions on a number line to fraction strips. We will do several hands-on activities to reinforce this skill in class. Homework is due on Fridays Log into Firstinmath.com to practice math daily! This week in reading we are completing our unit on themes in traditional literature. We will be diving into cause and effect, sequence and summarization of passages. It is a very busy time in reading right now preparing for our benchmark. Hot Topics: This week we are continuing to work on suffixes and how they change the meaning of common base words. Our sort this week is Sort 52 Comparatives –er, -est (adding these endings show that two things or more than two things are being compared to one another. In our writing workshop we are continuing to work on our poetry pieces. We have planned and drafted our color poems finally! We will also be working on our narrative poems and narrative writing pieces. Math Benchmark Test- March 4th Reading Benchmark Feb. 25th This week in Science we are learning about planets. Students will be able to identify the planets in Earth’s solar system as well as locate their position to the sun.