What's+Happening+This+Week?

**__Spelling__**- This weeks spelling words focus on words that are r-controlled with ar, are, or, and ore.


 * aren't, partner, hard, chart, farm, start, large, more, before, horse, north, morning, care, stare, warning, disappear **

**__Math__**- We are working in Chapter 8. Chapter 8 focuses on Identifying and writing fractions, apply basic probability terms to describe single events, understand that parenthese affect the order of opperations, identify the value of digits in numbers through hundred-thousands, make and test predictions, describe relationships between equivalent units, use fraction cards to find equivalent fractions, solve problems involving fractional parts of a collection.

At the beginning of math we do Mad Minutes. All students are now on multiplication. Please encourage your child to bring their fact cards home and practice with them!

**__Reading__**- We are practicing our test taking skills at the beginning of each class. Students are given short passages to read and answer 2 to 3 questions about the passage they just read.

We began the PSSA Prep. We will be working in Progress coach books which focus on topics related to the PSSA test.

**__Reading Logs are still assigned everynight for homework__**.

**__Writing__**- We are going to work on four square writing.

**__Science__-** We are finishing up our study on chapter 5 Water! We will be ready to take our test on Friday

**__Social Studies__**-We will begin our study of Flat Stanley's journey around the world! Stanley had traveled 27,000 miles so far in our studies! We've only studied 3 states!