May 9th- Track and Field Day - RAIN DATE: May 16th
June 2nd- Dunes Field Trip - RAIN DATE: June 3rd
Outdoor Discovery Center trip TUESDAY, April 29th.
We will be going to the ODC with Mrs. Custer's 5th grade class from Sandyview in the morning on Tuesday, April 29th. There is no cost for this. This trip is focused on our systems unit.
DRESS: Dress in layers! Wear pants! It will be cool in the morning. Students may be getting into some brushy areas and will not want to get scratched. Students may bring a small drawstring bag if they feel they need to put extra layers in this to carry around.
A Track and Field Day note went home yesterday. This a fun day to be with your child.
LUNCH: Students can bring their own lunch but it is easier if they choose to have hot lunch. We will need to take a count for this next week. If your child is already signed up for hot lunch that day, they are all set. If not, if they tell me they will eat hot lunch, it will be taken off their account as usual. If your child doesn't have a ticket, just send in the money for lunch.
Parents: If you come that day, you will not be able to eat lunch with your child in the cafeteria at the middle school. Sorry! There is barely enough room for all 8 classes and teachers. You would have time to run home or eat in the bleachers, etc.
DUNES FIELD TRIP:
A note came home about this yesterday. You will receive a note from our committee next week to sign up to join us and volunteer. This is a favorite field trip and a great way to finish off the elementary years and still focus on some curriculum as this ties into our systems science unit. We will need your assistance to make sure this field trip can happen. Please read the note carefully next week. I will also attach it when I email the blog.
An FYI: If an adult wants to accompany us on the Dunes ride in the morning, we can only have parents. We really need to stay with 1 parent per household. There are only so many seats available for the entire group. You will receive more detailed information about this trip later.
HOMEWORK:
Math Homework- Homework this weekend is a math review page. Some students have some reading or writing work to catch up on.
There are video tutorials and a practice activity for volume in the math tab!
MATH:
There are video tutorials and a practice activity for volume in the math tab!
Students took the test over Dividing Whole Numbers and Decimals. We have started our Measurement unit and worked with finding the volume of a rectangular solid and some students have learned how to compound (2 or more solids together) We have been working on review math as well as concepts for the upcoming Delta Math test.
PRACTICE: Aside from homework, please give your child a couple long division problems daily for practice in order to become more fluent. Practicing math facts is also VERY important for passing timed tests and getting through daily work more quickly.
READING -
Click on the "Reading" tab for practice comprehension passages
We are continuing to read The Fighting Ground.
We have been doing whole class work to work on reading comprehension strategies as well as breaking into groups and pairs to focus on those strategies and student reading goals.
WRITING:
We began our poetry unit last week. We are also reviewing parts of speech as we work on these as many of them are focused on a particular part of speech such as verb, adj, and adverb.
We will be having a POETRY BRUNCH the week of May 5th. I will send the date out on Monday for sure. We will need parents to donate brunch items and would love to have you come to watch students read their poems and act out the poetry of authors who have written poetry books!
SCIENCE:
The classification system and physical and behavioral adaptations have been the focus of science the past 2 weeks in our Systems unit. Friday students were able to observe hermit crabs. We will be doing more observation of these animal looking at physical and behavioral adaptations. We will begin to discuss heredity this week as well.
SPELLING:
Students took the lesson 28 test on Friday and it will come home on Monday. List 29 will go home Monday. You can also find lists under the spelling tab. The skill is The proofreading part of the test is an important skill. If your child has been needing more practice with this, that is something that they have been working on in class.
| If your child wants to play games/do practice tests, go to: Spelling City |
