Week of May 5

Sunday Schedule:  Week 2, Day 1

This week's homework:  15 minutes of reading each night, 1 SpellingCity activity each night (new lists will be sent home on Sunday, May 5; Spelling Test on Thursday, May 16 - last test for the year)

IXL Math for possible extra practice: (old practice: any A, B, D, E, F, G, H, (K.1-K.3), M, (S.8-S.15)

Classroom Happenings:
This past week in Reader's Workshop students worked with their same-book partners to finish their reading and work on skills like retelling a story and talking about the problem/solution.

In Writer's Workshop, students are working on Opinion Writing pieces.  Students are writing book reviews in which they are trying to persuade their audience to read their book! This past week students finished revising and editing! 

In Math, we started Module 6: Foundations of Multiplication and Division.  Students will work with concrete and pictorial (arrays) models of multiplication as they build a base of understanding!

Ask your student about their Glue Recipe and their evidence that supports the materials they used in their mixture!  (P.S. Our science lesson on Thursday ran a bit longer than expected so we didn't have time to take our Spelling Test this week.  We will not make up this test, but we will continue with our next Spelling Test as scheduled above.) 

Reminders:
Swimming starts in PE next week!  See the information that was sent home in your student's backpack from Mr. T.  (Day 2 on Monday, May 6 will be our first day of swimming in PE.)

Please let me know if your student will be fasting during Ramadan and what guidelines you like me to use here at school. 

We are asking students to leave their soccer and other sports cards at home. There have been some problems that have come up when students trade the cards and bring the cards to recess and specials classes. To avoid any further issues we would like to ask that you remind them to not bring them to school. Thanks for your help with this.