January Newsletter

Important January Dates:
January 5: Return to School
January 8: Winter Concert - 7pm
January 19: No School
January 29: Early Release Day

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Language Arts

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Math

So far the students have finished units on place value and multiplication, but please remember to continually practice these skills at home.


We will begin our next unit on Geometry.  By the end of the unit, the students will be able to:

• compare polygons by their sides and angles


• recognize right, obtuse, and actue angles and find them in everday life


• name segments, lines, rays, and angles


• model similar and congruent figures


• flip, slide, and turn figures


• sort and compare solids by their faces, edges, and vertices


• match a 3-D pattern with its net


• identify lines of symmetry


• create tessellations


• use coordinates grids

The Geometry unit is laden with terminology.  The following words are the vocabulary the students need to know:


solids, faces, edges, vertices, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid, sphere, cone, cylinder, square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon, circle, diamond, octagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, pentagon, angle, polygon, right angle, congruent, similar, flip, slide, turn, symmetry, ordered pair, coordinates, line segments, horizontal, vertical, lines, tessellations

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Science

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Social Studies
*Once we complete our unit on biomes, we will begin our next Social Studies unit.