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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Don't forget to start looking for photos of your child for the slideshow. The deadline is May 3. Please email to Jen Heard as a high resolution .JPEG file. If you do not have them in digital form/do not have a scanner, please send in the regular photos.
Please remember to sign up for conferences. Sign up sheets are located outside of the office.
The new Spelling schedule will look like this:
Monday 4/12: Spelling Pretest Week 23
Spelling Packet Week 23 assigned
Monday 4/19: Spelling Packet Week 23 is due
Spelling Test Week 23
Spelling Pretest Week 24
Spelling Packet Week 24 assigned
IMPORTANT DATES:
4/12 Classes Resume
4/16 No School for Students-Records Day
4/16 School Fair
4/21 and 4/22 Student Led Conferences (1-4 and 5-8pm)
4/26 Orchestra Concert Rehearsal at Groves 4:30-5:30
4/27 Orchestra Concert at Groves 7:30
4/30 Arbor Day Assembly (Permission slips will come home this week)
MATH
The math quiz for Unit 8 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 13.
Concepts from Unit 8 next this will include:
* Using unit fractions to find a fraction of a number and to find the whole.
* Using an area model to find fractions of fractions.
READING
This week, we will complete our poetry unit. Please ask your child about the book we are reading as a class, Locomotion, a story written completely in free verse poetry. This book is rich with underlying themes that we have been uncovering together, like love, loss, family, friendship, pain and hope. A major part of learning to be a good reader involves discovering themes that are present in stories, but not written in the actual text.
WRITING
This week, students will bring at least two poems they've written to publication. They have been doing such a great job with these and cannot wait to share these with you at conferences.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES
On Monday, we will complete our review for the social studies test, which will take place Wednesday, April 14. The review will outline concepts that will be covered on the test, which includes chapter 6, 7, and 8 in the red Social Studies Alive text book. If referring to the purple packet, we only completed sessions 1-10. We will continue with sessions 11-13 once we are finished with the next science kit.
Our next Science unit is Magnets and Motors. In this unit, students will explore magnets, electromagnets, and motors. Through their experiences, students will be introduced to to following concepts:
*Magnets attract and repel each other.
*How a compass works.
*Electric currents can produce magnetism.
*A simple motor can be made from an electromagnet and a rotating armature.
