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Homework 1/15: Learn to Ski Day at Welch—INFO IN FRIDAY FOLDERS!!!!! Check your child’s planner DAILY! AND 1/17: End of 2nd Quarter Now you can access your child’s daily 1/20: No School For Students—Staff homework through the Pine Island Schools Development for Teachers website. Simply go to www.pineisland.k12.mn.us 1/29: OLPA Math Testing—This is an and click on “Schools,” then “K-8 School,” online practice for the Math MCAs then “6th Grade,” and finally “6th Grade

Homework.” This will be updated daily by Spring Field Trips Are SET! 1 7 , 2 0 1 4 4:00 pm. Thursday 3/27—MN History Center

Tuesday 5/13—Ft. Snelling/Capitol — Math 1 and Math 2 Minnesota History Students are working on Chapter 5— Math 1: This week, we finished chapter 4 topics. Next week will continue to review and The Fur Trade. take a test over Chapter 4. There are videos Rice/Syrup project is due January 16. posted on Ms. Klein’s website to help review. Chapter 5 Test will be January 16. Math 2: We continue to work on Accelerated Math and MCA prep. As a reminder, students are required to complete 2 objectives per week. Look For: Voyageur Diary Entries to If they are not able to do this in class, they as homework next week. should be working on it for homework. Ask: Who were the voyageurs, fur traders, and clerks?

English/Language Arts This Week: Science We finished our book on M– Spelling Pretest engineers and will be sharing T— Spelling Homework—can include Take Home Task, Workbook, them with 3rd graders. We Challenge Worksheets will continue with Project W—Field Trip Lead the Way this week. Th—MCA (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments) Lesson and Prep Packet F—Spelling Test

100 Book Challenge Here is a link with more information: http://www.pineisland.k12.mn.us/page/2729

Remember, reading in the proper level should be FAST, FUN, and EASY. Expectation of steps on Monday, January 6th Grade News#15: Jan. 10 13th is 295.