I hope everyone has/had a wonderful Easter/Spring break. I know that after four days away from my favorite eight and nine year olds, I will be ready for school to resume!
In reading this week we will begin Unit 7: Making a Difference. Our theme vocabulary words will be: right, freedom, and believe. We will read a story called People Changing Their World in our Theme Readers. We will focus on the skills of monitoring comprehension, determining important information, synonyms, determining author's purpose, and contraction words. Last week, only FOUR (out of 22 students) mastered their spelling words. So, we will continue working on those commonly misspelled words this week, too. Students will have a chance to retake that test on Friday.
We will continue our compare/contrast essay this week on our two animals that survive in extreme environments. Students spent last week researching two animals and comparing/contrasting their adaptations, environments, diets, etc. Please ask your child if they have gathered enough information to start writing their three paragraphs this week.
Also, we have spent the last couple weeks starting Book Clubs. So, on top of their Differentiated Readers, students meet with a group once a week to discuss a chapter book. Ask your child what book they are reading. Most of them are enjoying the books and using their sticky notes to mark important ideas while reading.
In math, we will begin Chapter 11, which focus on finding area and perimeter. We have discussed this in Number Talks and briefly in Mountain Math, so the students should have some good background knowledge going into this chapter.
Report cards will go home on Friday. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, I am just an call/email away. The students will have a guest teacher (Mrs. Hanna) on Friday, as I will be staying with Bennett since our daycare lady is taking a much deserved vacation. Anyways, even though Mrs. Hanna will pass out their report cards, please email with any questions or concerns. Remember to returned the signed report card envelope on Monday, April 4th!
Some upcoming April events to mark on your calendars:
7th - PTA Meeting at 8:30am.
11th - PIR Day; No School for students.
15th - Memories with Mom from 7:15-8:15am in the gym.
20th - 4th Grade Recorder Concert at 8:45am in the gym.
21st - Superintendent and Mrs. Bouck will read to our 1st Graders!
22nd - No School
27th - "Mrs. Derrig Day" .... celebrating our wonderful secretary!
28th - Volunteer Breakfast from 7:45-9:00am in the library
29th - Midterms for 4th/5th;
Code Word= 4th Quarter!
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