We had another great week here at Huggins.  Thank you to all of you who came out and supported the school at our first Spirit Night at Pepperoni's!  We had a great turn-out and all money raised from Spirit Nights comes back to benefit your students!

Here is what is going on this week:

Math: We are still working on long division and then will be moving into patterns with decimals.  We will have a Module 2 test on Wednesday over multiplication and division.  If you haven't had a chance to "like" our class Facebook page please do so.  I know, just from feedback from your students, that some of you are having problems helping them with homework because of the new methods we are using to help them decompose numbers and make it easier to multiply and divide large numbers. I have videotaped me working two different division problems and posted them on our class Facebook page to help you better understand how we are working the problems.  Some students are very familiar with the "old way" we learned also known as the standard algorithm method, but we still want them to understand the "why" behind the computation.  This is where the concrete and pictorial methods come in.  Please take a moment to look at the videos.  I am in the process of uploading them to my YouTube channel for those who don't have access to Facebook.

Science: In science we have finished up "Classifying Matter" and are now moving into "Uses of Energy".  We will be going to the Computer Lab to work on an assignment this week and then starting our unit on energy.

Social Studies: We have finished Chapter 3 in History Alive on European explorers.  Please have your students visit the tutorial page to take the practice quizzes.  We will have the Ch. 4 quiz on Tuesday.  (It seems to be a pattern so far for Tuesday but it has just happened to work out that way.) We will start Ch. 5: Routes of Exploration on Monday.

ELAR: We are starting our novel study on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and are finishing up our final drafts for our first compositions this week.  They are due by Thursday.  We have to write two major compositions a nine weeks grading period.  We will be talking about inferencing this week in reading as well.

Have an awesome weekend and don't forget that this is a short week.  Friday is a student/staff holiday for the Fort Bend County Fair.  I hope to see some familiar faces out at the parade at the fairgrounds on Friday! 

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or call me at the school. Agendas need to be checked and signed daily.