Week of October 26-30

It's hard to believe October is almost over and the first quarter is winding down. In this week's Friday Folder be looking for a Parent-Teacher conference reminder. Here's what's going on this week in Mrs. McCann's class!

This week in Language Arts... we are continuing reading our Literature Circle books and taking a close look at how the authors develop the main characters and how they change because of conflicts and events in the novel. We will be having our first student-led Literature Circle discussions on Tuesday, October 27. Check out the calendar on Angel to double check the reading assignments. Reading assignments are also recorded in each student's agenda. Each student should also have completed a job sheet in order to bring a certain perspective to the discussion. After Tuesday, students should continue reading their novel and completing a different job sheet for the Literature Circle meeting #2 which will be a week from Tuesday.

Word Study continues this week -- students have WS homework each night this week.

This week in Math... we are continuing our graphing unit. We are working on analyzing data by determining the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data. A review packet for our graphing unit will come home this week for students to work on to prepare for our upcoming math test next week.
This week's homework assignments:
Monday - Wks: Finding the mean, median, mode, and range
Tuesday - Study guide going home -- due FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Wednesday - Study Guide due FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Thursday - Study Guide due FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Friday - No Homework -- Graphing Test on Tuesday, November 3rd.

This week in Science... we are continuing our matter unit. We'll explore mixtures and differentiate between even and uneven mixtures. Students will receive instructions on how to finish their Matter projects at home either by handwriting the final draft or typing the final draft by downloading the Word document from Angel and typing in their research in the texts boxes. Final drafts of the Matter projects are due the first week of November.