Mrs. Napolitano's News
Week of January 14th
Thanks to Mrs. Fogarty for chaperoning the field trip to Naper Settlement.
READING
This week we are reading Katie's Trunk. This story is about Katie's family that is loyal to England and her neighbors are rebelling against England. As we read the story, we will be summarizing the main events. We also will be working on cause and effects of the story events.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we will identify and correctly punctuate interjections. Next, we will punctuate and
capitalize direct quotations in a sentence. Then we will write book, movie, newspaper, magazine, and poem titles correctly. Finally, we will write and punctuate abbreviations correctly. Our test on this chapter is scheduled for Wednesday, January 23rd.
SOCI
AL STUDIES
This week we will learn that the events in Boston brought Britain and the colonies closer together. The British punished Boston severely for the Tea Party with what colonists called the Intolerable Acts. Ask your child what type of letter they wrote and why we dipped it in tea. The American Revolution began with a battle a British victory at Lexington and a Patriot victory at Concord.
SCIENCE
Students will demonstrate that air expands when heated and contracts when cooled. This week
we will be keeping track of the temperature three times a day for the whole week. There will
be a quiz on activities 1-6 on Tuesday. We also will compare the heating and cooling rates of
soil and water and infer that the unequal heating of land and water causes air movements called
land and water breezes.
MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
We continue to learn new things in our geometry chapter. This week we will develop spatial
reasoning abilities through problem solving. Next we will classify triangles as equilateral, scalene, isosceles, right, acute, and obtuse. Then we will find the sum of angles of a triangle. Ask your child what they learned about classifying quadrilaterals. Our checkpoint quiz will be on Friday, Jan. 18th on pgs. 268-269.
IMPORTANT DATES
1/16 Mrs. Napolitano's Class GEOSPACE 12:15-2:15
1/18
PV Spirit wear
1/21 No School- Martin Luther King Day
1/25 Spirit Day -- Shirt from favorite vacation spot or state
2/5 Teacher Institute-- NO SCHOOL
2/7 Early Dismissal-- NO SCHOOL
2/14 Valentine's Day Party 1:30-2:20
2/18 President's Day –NO SCHOOL
Week of January 14th
Thanks to Mrs. Fogarty for chaperoning the field trip to Naper Settlement.
READING
This week we are reading Katie's Trunk. This story is about Katie's family that is loyal to England and her neighbors are rebelling against England. As we read the story, we will be summarizing the main events. We also will be working on cause and effects of the story events.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we will identify and correctly punctuate interjections. Next, we will punctuate and
capitalize direct quotations in a sentence. Then we will write book, movie, newspaper, magazine, and poem titles correctly. Finally, we will write and punctuate abbreviations correctly. Our test on this chapter is scheduled for Wednesday, January 23rd.
SOCI
AL STUDIESThis week we will learn that the events in Boston brought Britain and the colonies closer together. The British punished Boston severely for the Tea Party with what colonists called the Intolerable Acts. Ask your child what type of letter they wrote and why we dipped it in tea. The American Revolution began with a battle a British victory at Lexington and a Patriot victory at Concord.
SCIENCE
Students will demonstrate that air expands when heated and contracts when cooled. This week
we will be keeping track of the temperature three times a day for the whole week. There will
be a quiz on activities 1-6 on Tuesday. We also will compare the heating and cooling rates of
soil and water and infer that the unequal heating of land and water causes air movements called
land and water breezes.
MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
We continue to learn new things in our geometry chapter. This week we will develop spatial
reasoning abilities through problem solving. Next we will classify triangles as equilateral, scalene, isosceles, right, acute, and obtuse. Then we will find the sum of angles of a triangle. Ask your child what they learned about classifying quadrilaterals. Our checkpoint quiz will be on Friday, Jan. 18th on pgs. 268-269.
IMPORTANT DATES
1/16 Mrs. Napolitano's Class GEOSPACE 12:15-2:15
1/18
PV Spirit wear1/21 No School- Martin Luther King Day
1/25 Spirit Day -- Shirt from favorite vacation spot or state
2/5 Teacher Institute-- NO SCHOOL
2/7 Early Dismissal-- NO SCHOOL
2/14 Valentine's Day Party 1:30-2:20
2/18 President's Day –NO SCHOOL
