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Weekly Newsletter for Farrell Land
January 29-February 2, 2018

Information/Reminders
Please sign off on your child’s assignment notebook and behavior tracker daily.
Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for school. The weather is constantly changing.

Important Dates
January 31—Last day for Project Linus donations.
February 2—100th Day of School and Groundhogs Day

Curriculum News
Wow! What a successful week with Microsoft 365! Thank you so much for your cooperation as we move on with this exciting journey!
Reading
We will continue reading Wonderstruck. The students have been really into the book. We will be working on summarizing and characterization, as well as prediction.
Language
We continue working on our 21 Day Grammar Boot Camp.
Spelling
We will be studying words with suffixes.
Math
We will continue working on our strategies for double digit multiplication. We will have a summative later in the week. Then we will move onto reviewing perimeter and finding the area of a shape, as well as using the lattice method for solving double digit multiplication.
Social Studies:
We will continue studying the causes of the American Civil War.

Contact Information:
Ms. Melissa Farrell Website: summithill.org
815.469.6993 x1137 E-mail: mfarrell@summithill.org

Spelling Words
graceful
comfortable
worthless
fearful
dependable
lovable
predictable
thoughtless
faithful
beautiful
careful
peaceful
helpless
sleepless
harmless
poisonous
humorous
hazardous
breakable
cordless

Vocabulary from Wonderstruck
translated
ecstatic
cavernous
avalanche
Vocabulary for Civil War
abolish segregation
abolitionist
industrial
agricultural

Special Schedule
Monday— PE and Music
Tuesday— PE and Library
Wednesday— PE and Music
Thursday— PE, Art (every other week), and Technology
Friday— PE

Note from Ms. Farrell
Six Flags Read to Succeed forms went home with the students on January 11th and due on February 21!
We will be working with cursive this quarter, most assignments will be required to be completed in cursive.
Ask your child if they have been a bucket filler today. They can explain the lesson they experienced with Mrs. Wright.
We have been working on Number Talks in the morning. Please ask your child about them. Last Friday, we starting talking about square numbers! :)

~Everyone has a SUPERHERO inside them, waiting to be discovered.