Classroom Times

Teacher: Mrs. Melissa Hillis

Date:

January 12-16, 2015

Content Areas:
Reading - An Egg is An Egg (genre is fiction)
- story comprehension (who, what, when..)
- compare and contrast (Venn Diagrams)
Grammar-Action Verbs
Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing
- Topic: "Why should we have extra recess"
Mathematics - Begin Unit 4: Measurement and
Basic Facts
- forms of measurement
- ruler and the inch
- thermometers and degrees
Social Studies - Maps and Map skills
Science- 3 States of Matter (solid, liquid, gas)

Important Reminders:
*Please save and send in your Box-Tops
and plastic bottle caps.
*Every Friday is spirit day! Don't forget to
wear blue and white!
*Check out our new class website at:
http://hillis.res.mdso.eportalnow.net/ It is a
work in progress! Our password is Hillis2015
*No School on Monday, January 19th for
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
*No School on Friday, January 23rd for a
teacher workday.

Special Class Schedule:

Monday- Music
Tuesday- FLES and P.E.

Spelling Words

Wednesday- Art

Skill: Vowel Sounds for Y (long i and long e)

Thursday- FLES and Host Nation

General List:
1. my
6. fly
2. by
7. cry
3. try
8. lucky
4. any
9. silly
5. body 10. puppy

Friday- Music

Challenge List:
1.butterfly 6.reply
2.shiny
7.study
3.sorry
8.pity
4.supply
9.memory
5.July
10.family

The spelling test will be on Friday!

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Contact Information:
* melissa.hillis@eu.dodea.edu
*http://hillis.res.mdso.eportalnow.net/
* School office number: 727-4185/7
* Classroom number: 727- 6454
* Send a note with your child in his
or her daily folder