Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Dear Parents and Students, Welcome back! Welcome to 2010! It is great to see all these bright, shiny faces so eager to learn. I hope you all had a restful and peaceful holiday. Although it is a short week, we will begin working right away and keep up a pretty good pace for the next few weeks. Mrs. Hyde Important Dates 1-18-10 MLK Jr. Day- No school 1-22-10 Progress Reports come home 2-8-10 Lincoln's B-day- No school 2-9-10 thru 2-12-10 SLY PARK feild trip: cost ~$210.00 2-15-10 Washington's B-day No School 2-26-10 Gradebook Closes 3-5-10 End of 2nd Trimester This Week In: LANGUAGE ARTS: we will read Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirer. We will focus on prefixes and suffixes, we will also work with how to punctuate quotations properly when writing. MATH: We will begin our exploration of decimals, but we will continue to review the four operations with fractions too. SOCIAL STUDIES: Unit 3: The Fight for a Continent SCIENCE: Students are with Mrs. Alameda learning about biology and life science.