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All students have created reading goals with Accelerated Reader. Please ask your child about his or her goal. To help your child reach his or her goal by May 2nd, please encourage nightly reading for 20 minutes.
LASSO A BOOK CALENDAR: Don't forget to sign every night on the Lasso a Book Calendar. The calendar will be due on April 30th.
Reading
Students will be reading about different cultures and how those cultures are shared in the communities through celebrations. Students will create a poster to advertise one of the celebrations. Your child will work on this activity for the next two weeks.
Grades will be given in Reading, Social Studies, and Language Arts.
Students will begin a Historical Fiction book study: A Lion to Guard Us
We will read and discuss elements of the novel and make inferences about events, and characters.
Language Arts/Writing
Students will be reviewing sentence fragments and run on sentences this week.
Students will begin an explanatory writing piece on their favorite family tradition. Your child will come home this week to discuss possible topics for their explanatory writing. Please take the time to discuss family traditions that your family celebrate and where that tradition comes from. This will help your child determine the best topic to write about in class. Your child will work on this for the next 2-3 weeks. We will go through the complete writing process with this piece of writing.
Math
Unit of Study: Elapsed Time (Addition/Subtraction of Time)
and Liquid Capacity
Students will calculate elapsed time and explore with liquid capacity in both customary and metric units.
Students will continue to identify math actions in story problems and solve using pictures, numbers and words.
PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD PRACTICING MULTIPLICATION FACTS TO THE 10'S EVERY NIGHT. THIS IS A PROMOTION REQUIREMENT.
We will do a timed multiplication fact quiz every morning. Students will move to the next level everytime they score a 100 on the 3 minute quiz.
Students will continue taking the timed multiplication fact promotion assessment every three weeks. Each time the promotion test is given it will count for a math grade. It will not count as a test grade, but as a daily work grade.
Click here to practice math facts
Click here to visit the Math page
Social Studies/Science
Unit of Study: Celebrating with Energy
Students will read about different cultural celebrations in Texas and create a poster to advertise one of the celebrations.
Students will explore with different forms of Energy:
- Potential and Kinetic
- Light
- Sound
- Heat (Thermal)
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Important Information
- All students should read at least 20 minutes every night and complete the on line reading journal at least 3 days out of the week.
- Citizenship folders will be sent home every Friday.
- Please check your child's binder for work samples. Work samples will be kept behind designated tabs in your child's binder until the end of the grading period.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- May 3 - Cornyval Parade
- May 6 - Evening of the Arts
- May 9 - Progress reports go home
Early Release Day
SCEINCE FAIR
This week your child will be going through a modeled process of science fair requirements in class. On Wednesday-Thursday, your child will be working on the Science Project Fair Plan Worksheet from the Science Fair packet. This plan will be due back to me Friday morning. I will review it with your child and he/she will bring the plan back home to keep.
Below is a link to the Science Fair Packet Requirements and other links to help assist you and your child. Please refer to these links to help your child with completing the REQUIRED Science Fair Project. This project will count twice in Reading, Science and Language Arts. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Science Fair Packet
Science Project Ideas
Examples of Display Boards
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