I hope everyone had a relaxing Thanksgiving break!  Only 3 more weeks until our Winter Break!  Here are some important updates for the week:

Monday: boys basketball practice, choir, read 20 minutes, study spelling words, p.e.

Tuesday: girls basketball practice, read 20 minutes, study spelling words, library

Wednesday: read 20 minutes, study spelling words, music

Thursday: read 20 minutes, study spelling words, p.e., boys and girls basketball practice

Friday: read 20 minutes, spelling test, art

Science: We will continue our discussions of collisions this week and how energy is transferred from one object to another.  You can play with collisions on the pages below:

1.  Newton’s Cradle
2.  Newton’s Cradle 2
3.  Newton’s Cradle video

Reading: We will continue reading our novel, “Frankie Sparks” this week focusing on how the characters interact and change during the story.  Sometimes things happen to our characters to make them act differently than they did before.

1. Character Interaction Slideshow
2. Character Interactions Video

Spelling: We will review plural words again this week with our spelling list:

hoaxes

classes

gases

viruses

speeches

skies

activities

colonies

galaxies

victories

You can practice at Spelling City or Spelling Training!