Mrs. Napolitano's News
Week of January 7th
FORGOTTEN LUNCHES: Starting in January, 2008 students who do not have a lunch ticket or money will be able to borrow from the office providing there is not an outstanding balance due for lunch tickets. If your child forgets his/her hot lunch ticket or has used them all, he/she may bring $2.25 to school and purchase a ticket that day from the office staff. Students must have exact change to purchase a ticket; no change will be given. If a child has no lunch, no money and the parent cannot be contacted, he/she may borrow from school office, but only twice per trimester. Students will no longer be able to borrow lunch tickets from the lunchroom staff.
READING
This week we will begin a unit called Voices of the Revolution. Our first story is called And Then What Happened Paul Revere? Students will read about Paul Revere, a person who became one of the leaders of the American Revolution. With this story we will focus on the author's viewpoint and if a statement is fact or opinion.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we will making an acrostic poem inside a snowman with winter words. We will then be ready to begin our Chapter on Capitalization and Punctuation. We will identify the four kinds of sentences and review using correct beginning and end punctuation. Next we will identify proper nouns and adjectives. Last we will use commas to separate words or groups of words in a series.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our new chapter is called The Road to War. We will learn that British taxes led to greater
cooperation among colonies. The British decided to tax the colonists to help pay for the defense of the colonies. See if your child can tell you what the Stamp Act was. Later on in the week we will be doing an interactive role playing activity "The King's Gold" which will demonstrate how unfair taxing was at the time. Ask your child what they learned from The King's M & M's.
SCIENCE
Students will demonstrate that air exerts pressure. We also will read a barometer and relate
barometric changes to changes in the weather. Ask your child what the two types of barometers
are. Our last experiment will demonstrate that air expands when heated and contracts when
cooled.
MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
We are ready to begin Chapter 7 on Geometry. This week we will identify basic geometric figures. Next we will classify angles as right, obtuse, and acute. Ask your child what they learned about measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. Finally, we will identify polygons that are common shapes that we see every day.
IMPORTANT DATES
1/7 Classes Resume
1/8 Naper Settlement Field Trip
1/16 Mrs. Napolitano's Class GEOSPACE 12:15-2:15
1/21 No School- Martin Luther King Day
Week of January 7th
FORGOTTEN LUNCHES: Starting in January, 2008 students who do not have a lunch ticket or money will be able to borrow from the office providing there is not an outstanding balance due for lunch tickets. If your child forgets his/her hot lunch ticket or has used them all, he/she may bring $2.25 to school and purchase a ticket that day from the office staff. Students must have exact change to purchase a ticket; no change will be given. If a child has no lunch, no money and the parent cannot be contacted, he/she may borrow from school office, but only twice per trimester. Students will no longer be able to borrow lunch tickets from the lunchroom staff.
READING
This week we will begin a unit called Voices of the Revolution. Our first story is called And Then What Happened Paul Revere? Students will read about Paul Revere, a person who became one of the leaders of the American Revolution. With this story we will focus on the author's viewpoint and if a statement is fact or opinion.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we will making an acrostic poem inside a snowman with winter words. We will then be ready to begin our Chapter on Capitalization and Punctuation. We will identify the four kinds of sentences and review using correct beginning and end punctuation. Next we will identify proper nouns and adjectives. Last we will use commas to separate words or groups of words in a series.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our new chapter is called The Road to War. We will learn that British taxes led to greater
cooperation among colonies. The British decided to tax the colonists to help pay for the defense of the colonies. See if your child can tell you what the Stamp Act was. Later on in the week we will be doing an interactive role playing activity "The King's Gold" which will demonstrate how unfair taxing was at the time. Ask your child what they learned from The King's M & M's.
SCIENCE
Students will demonstrate that air exerts pressure. We also will read a barometer and relate
barometric changes to changes in the weather. Ask your child what the two types of barometers
are. Our last experiment will demonstrate that air expands when heated and contracts when
cooled.
MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
We are ready to begin Chapter 7 on Geometry. This week we will identify basic geometric figures. Next we will classify angles as right, obtuse, and acute. Ask your child what they learned about measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. Finally, we will identify polygons that are common shapes that we see every day.
IMPORTANT DATES
1/7 Classes Resume
1/8 Naper Settlement Field Trip
1/16 Mrs. Napolitano's Class GEOSPACE 12:15-2:15
1/21 No School- Martin Luther King Day
