Saturday, April 9, 2011

Week of April 11th

Hey Families!  Hope all is well with everyone!!  I can't believe we have only 6 weeks left!  This is when I start to get a little teary.  I truly love your children and will miss them so very much!  The children have been working so hard and I am super proud of them!!  Here is this week's agenda:

Reading - We will be finishing up The Mouse and the Motorcycle book this week!  The children and I are really enjoying it!  Their homework project for this story is to collect a shoebox and items that will create a mouse house for Ralph.  We will make the mouse house in class on April 22nd, but they need to be collecting items and can bring them to school anytime.  We talked about making furniture out of egg cartons, wallpaper out of scrapbook paper, etc.  The children are creative.  I'm sure they can think of a lot of things! :)  They were coming up with quite a few things when we talked about it yesterday!  We will make Ralph out of clay.  It should be a fun project!

Math - Fractions - reducing fractions and adding/subtracting fractions with unlike denominators    We will also continue to REVIEW everything we've learned this year!

English - We will finish up our online stories this week in computer lab.  Please help your child at home if he/she needs pictures scanned and please also edit your child's work.   The stories are due in completion by Friday.  Thank you to those that sent the signed order forms back on time.  I sent a new copy to those that didn't.  I NEED them by Monday.  I have to send them to the company before our production date happens.   Remember, you don't have to order a book for your child to get a free one.  I just need the form signed and returned.   Also this week, we will continue to work on poetry.

Spelling - List 21 on spellingcity.com and List 21.5 is enriched

Social Studies - We will begin studying the final region, the West, of our country this week.  We will look at the states within this region as well as landforms, resources, and economy.  We will also talk about the Oregon Trail, the Gold Rush, as well as other key events in this region's history.  The test over the state locations and capitals will be next week. 

Science - We will finish up our unit on the body.  There will be a test over the main organ locations and their functions on Friday.  We will create a study guide on Tuesday for them to take home.

That's about all!  Our Countdown to Summer Vacation starts on Friday!  Friday will be "A" Day.  A stands for Art, so we will have an artist from Leonardo's come and do a cool art project with the kids!  Fun!  Look for the A to Z list on Monday!

****ALSO*****  I forgot to put down an important event on the "Dates of Important Events and Projects" list I sent home.   Oops!  Friday is our school's Spring Fling!  This is a very fun event!  You should have received a few papers by now about this event and how you can help as well as how to buy tickets and how much they are.  You don't want to miss it!  I go every year and have a lot of fun.  I am anxious to take Eli this year! 

One more thing......I promised the children they could have a Read and Feed in their Space Habitats on Friday.  They may bring a snack and drink to school then.  Make sure their drink has a cap/lid.  They may also bring a stuffed animal.  After our Read and Feed, we will have a drawing to determine who gets to win the Space Habitats.  By the way, they did awesome constructing their habitats!!  This was a challenging, higher level thinking activity, but they rose to the challenge.  I will post pictures and video soon of this project!!

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