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5/10 Robert Crown Field Trip
5/14 Early Dismissal
Students from Project Challenge have started a fund raiser for the ASPCA, a foundation to stop animal cruelty. The kids will be selling Smencils® (scented pencils) for a 1.00 each. The pencils will be sold each morning in the grade level areas. The sales will start Friday April 30th and go through May 28th.
We will track our sales on the bulletin board by the multi-purpose room. For every twenty dollars we raise, one food bowl will go up on the bulletin board. So please help save our animals. Buy Smencils!
Spelling:
Lesson 33: Words ending with -tion
The test will be on Friday.
Reading:
Our Poetry Unit will continue throughout this week. This unit revisits our study of figurative language and will require students to explore different styles of this genre. The students will read, interpret, and write their own poems in class. Please review the poetry packet and rubric with your child at home. All Poetry Unit Books will be due on May 14th. Book clubs were formed April 30th. The first book club meeting will be on Friday, May 7th. Book club worksheets will also be due at the first meeting.
English:
We will continue with our unit on verbs and contract enrichment for the unit.
Math:
We are moving on to Chapter 14: Number Theory and Patterns. We will cover Lessons 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3. This chapter will not be formally tested. Instead, we will have a graded assessment. Please refer to your child's assignment notebook for the exact date of the assessment. Please continue to practice multiplication and division facts at home so that you child knows the answers with speed and accuracy.
Social Studies:
The Chapter 11 social studies test will be on Tuesday, May 4th. During the week, we will move on to our final region: The West! We will also be have a Junior Achievement representative in our classroom on Wednesdays for the next four weeks.
Science:
We will concentrate on Lesson 2 in Chapter 7. Your child will learn about the rock cycle. There will be a graded assessment on lesson 2 near the end of the week. Please watch for it to be posted in your child's assignment notebook.
