ELA
This week in language arts, the students will continue reading novels. Each student will be given a novel to read during reading groups. On some nights, the students will get reading assignments for homework. In reading groups, we will continue work on summarizing and synthesizing information. In language, the students will continue to write compare /contrast essays, and we will review various language skills during bellwork each morning. This week’s vocabulary words are ease, astonish, simplify, device, amazing, manufacture, patent, brand, invention, and risk.
• The students will have a comprehension and vocabulary quiz Friday
• Please make sure the students are reading for 20 min every night and taking AR tests.
Social Studies
This week is science week.
Math
The students will review the area and perimeter of squares, rectangles, and irregular shapes. The students will become architects this week. They will be put into groups to use area and perimeter to build a house with certain criteria. This project will be the students’ math grade this week.
Science
This week the students will learn to identify the physical characteristics of the sun. The students will also learn about the earth and its neighbors, what keeps planets in order, and inertia and gravity.
• The students will take a science quiz Friday
Special Notes:
• Thanks to everyone who chaperoned the field trip to New Orleans. I truly couldn’t have done it without you.
• Next Monday (May 11), we are having a guest author come to our library. Her name is Jessica Mire Riebel and she wrote Katrina and the Rinky-dink Sweing machine. I sent home flyers last week with the children to pre-order copies of her book. She will be able to autograph them during her visit.
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