May 9th- Track and Field Day
June 2nd- Dunes Field Trip  

MEAP INFORMATION: Your child should have brought home their MEAP scores in an envelope on Friday.  I also sat down with each student this week and went through their scores with them. We discussed goals for math and reading and wrote these down. We also talked about the improvements and goals that students have reached this year so far. 

Responsible Kids: This year I have really loved how many students have been emailing me questions about homework, telling me when they have forgotten HW and wanting to be responsible for this, and a couple times even telling me that I forgot to send the HW!

The HIV/AIDS lesson will be Tuesday: An informational page will come home with your child.
  
  


HOMEWORK:   
Math Homework- Homework this weekend is finishing up math from Friday- dividing decimal by whole numbers.

MATH: 
     Students took the test over Multiplying Whole Numbers and Decimals. I was very impressed with the kids- they really caught on to dividing by 2 digit divisors! We will continue practice with this for fluency and to be confident. This week we focused on dividing decimals by powers of ten and whole numbers. Next week we will get into dividing decimals by a decimal and review.

  PRACTICE: Aside from homework, please give your child a couple long division problems daily for practice in order to become more fluent.

My fusion page has quite a few math games and tutorials. Here is the link:
Fusion Page 

READING -   
Click on the "Reading" tab for practice comprehension passages
  We began our genre unit, The Fighting Ground. The picture book, Katie's Trunk, is the first book in this unit. This story gives a Torie's perspective, pre-Revolutionary War. This is the last of our genre units and goes along with our social studies unit about the Revolutionary War.
  We will be doing whole class work to work on reading comprehension strategies as well as breaking into groups to focus on those strategies and student reading goals.

WRITING:                    
  The newspaper articles have been fun for the kids to do. The google form is set up like a newspaper with room for 3 articles and a picture/caption for each. 2-3 students can work on a page all together in real time, working and online chatting about their articles and giving editing advice.  I can also have their pages all open on my computer and do the same. I look these over nightly as well to add comments and ask questions. Our goals have been using alliteration in the headlines, using quotes and quotation marks correctly, and writing from the voice of a reporter- not writing it as a narrative story, such as "One sunny day.." 
These are due on Thursday.

SCIENCE:   
  Students took the Objects in the Sky test on Monday. Students have completed their research and projects about the Body Systems (Skeletal, Muscular, etc.) which is our current unit. Presentations will begin on Tuesday. I have been really proud of how students have been checking their work against the rubric for their particular project. This is an important skill!
 
SPELLING:
  Students took the lesson 25 test on Friday and it will come home on Monday. List 26 will go home Monday- (Yes, I forgot lesson 25!)  You can also find lists under the spelling tab. The skill is synonyms. 

If your child wants to play games/do practice tests, go to: Spelling City