Sunday, April 19, 2015

April 20th

Another reminder about our awards ceremony for the third 9 weeks. It was moved to this Friday at 8:45 AM.

Report cards went home Friday. Please return the small signature section of the report card in the unsealed envelope. Thank you!

Resources this week:
Monday: Music
Wednesday: PE
Thursday: Art

READING: Please remember to read regularly at home and record your reading or Achieve lesson on your RAH log. Your logs are due each Friday.

As we continue to read our novel, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, we will stop to note examples of the 3 signposts we have learned about the past few weeks. Below are the charts from our classroom which explain each one. These signposts are great talking points for at home reading!
Since Wednesday is Earth Day, we will read a great book, Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg. We will do several activities related to environmental issues and what we can do to help make our planet a better place.
 
WRITING: We are continuing to document how each character in our novel is impacted by Edward to prepare for our opinion letter writing.

MATH: This week in Math we will be focusing on identifying equivalent fractions and decimals for values involving halves and fourths (e.g., ½ = 0.50, ¼ = 0.25, 2 ½ = 2.5).  The students will be reading, writing, and interpreting the meaning of the decimal numbers 0.50, 0.25, and numbers greater than 1 with these decimal portions, such as 2.5 and 2.25.


Math Homework –
Unit 7 page 30
Unit 7 page 37
Unit 7 page 39

SCIENCE: This week in Science we will continue learning about plant structures and their functions.