Dear Parents,
We are finishing up reading The
Waterfall this week. We will end on
Thursday. The rest of the week in Language Arts we will focus on writing a
summary of the story. We will also
review all the grammar concepts taught for the theme: Sentence or Fragment, 4 types
of sentences, Subject Predicate, Syllabication, Base words, and Inflected
Endings. They will have a test on all
grammar concepts on Friday.
We began Proficiency Block today. This focus block of time will be on the
standards Main Idea and Words in Context.
This first block of time will last for 4 weeks.
In Math, they will be working
on their 11’s and 12's multiplication facts, 10's, 3's and 4's division facts,
review and memorize all multiplication facts, and be introduced to finding the
Area of a plane figure.
In Social Studies, we will be
finishing up California Regions. Also, Wednesday is Constitution Day, so your
child will be learning about the constitution of our country.
Our literature focus, we finished
up reading James and the Giant Peach on Thursday. They will write a paragraph describing their
favorite character in the story in class. For Homework they will be creating a
triorama of their favorite scene from the story, and write a descriptive
paragraph about it on the index card provided.
Ways to help your child this
week:
* Multiplication Facts
Flashcards. They will soon have to know
all of their facts by memory.
*Go to our class website and
review concepts already taught.
* Check out Solar System
books from your local library. This will be our first Science Unit starting
next week.
* Our next classroom chapter
book will be Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. If you would like check it out from the
library or purchase it at a book story for about 5 dollars.
Important Dates this week:
Friday is Library Day:
remember your library books!
Mrs.
Monroe
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