Welcome back to the new school year! In Reading this year we continue with the Wilson Reading Program. In addition we will be reading "TJ Westin - Man of the House". This will have vocabulary, comprehension, and writing assignments. Math is separated into basic skills and life skills math. Each student is given a packet of work with basic skills at their own level. We also do life skills math with calculators. We are currently doing Supermarket Math. ELA is grammar and writing. First we go over tools for good writing, like grammar, punctuation, descriptive words, then we incorporate that into a writing assignment. We are splitting the week doing Social Studies and Science. This year we are studying New York. We have already started using Powermedia Plus to actually visit NYC! We are currently studying the Revolutionary War. For Science we are studying Physical Science. We are currently doing energy. Life Skills is about how to deal with peer pressure. They have Health this year with Mrs. Kneifel. They have homework almost every night; either Math or Reading. It will always be in their folders.