*Room 401 News*

March Announcements:

Calendar
7 Fri. End of 2nd Trimester
13 Thurs. Tim’s Birthday!
14 Fri. Report Cards Sent Home
17 Mon. Charlotte’s Birthday!
21 Fri. Good Friday - No School
24-28 Spring break – No School

Last Week’s Spotlight: Deborah
This Week’s Spotlight: Guess Who?

401 Track meets every Friday morning at 8. Come join us!
A Fabulous turn out this week! Thanks for joining us and enjoying breakfast respectfully. Yum, yum...
Athletes of the Week: Daniel, Felix, Tim, Charlotte, Alyssa, Teresa, Osi, Andrew T., Joycelyn, Jake, Jordan, Saurabh (and sister!)

The District Writing Assessment: Terrific job on the challenging genre: Response to Literature. Though we respond to stories, paragraphs and literature books, we have never done a formal essay on this genre. In 10 years, Fremont Unified School District has never given this topic…but we did it! Congratulations for completing a difficult task. (Grr…6th graders got Persuasive! But who says that Life is Fair? Good luck next year on getting an easier genre. But you did VERY well for a hard assignment.)

What’s happening in 401?
Writing: Now that the District Writing is over, we can write other more interesting stories. However, our focus is on the tedious Practice Standardized tests. Ugh.
Science: The unit C7 test is finally done. Our next unit (D8) is on Physical Science: Elements & their combination. What are atoms, matter, protons and neutrons? What are electrons?!? If they are not magnets, why do they have positive and negative energies? Help!
Reading Language Arts: Unit 4 has begun and we are studying about the history of our United States of America.
Math: Find the factors for this number: 678498. How do you do it? What is this number divisible by?


Dates to Remember:

‡ Monday, March 10
* Spelling Pre-Test #23
*Fantasy/Fiction Writing!

‡ Tuesday, March 11
*P.E. (1:55-2:55)
* Practice Test ELA II
*Math-A-Thon 1:15-1:45 (in pairs)

‡ Wednesday, March 12
*Computer (10:30-11:20)
*Geography Country Cap Quiz 9!
* Practice Test Math III & IV
*Guess Who? Birthday

‡ Thursday, March 13
*Science with Mr. D (9:30-10:20)
*Unit 4, Lesson 3 Quiz
*Social Studies Unit Test
* Practice Test Science III & IV
*Tim’s Birthday

‡ Friday, March 14
*401 Track! (8:00-8:15am)
*Spelling Test #23
*Math Chapter 16 Test
*Practice Test Discussion
*Report Cards Sent Home