Things to Remember:
Tues. 4/26 MAP testing
Thurs. 4/28 - Family Reading Night
Fri.4/29 - MAP testing
Fri. 5/13 - Early Dismissal @ 11:00
Please remember to send in your
Box Tops! The final collection is
April 29th.
Math This week in math the students will be estimating products of two, three, and four digit by 1 digit multiplication and then finding the product. There will be a test on Tuesday, May 1 over chapter 9 and lesson 10-1.
Spelling This week the students will work with words that have unusual spellings. There will be a test on Friday of this week. Workbook pages 213-215 are due on Friday. Those students who pass the pretest may take the final test on their words for extra points. They will have activities assigned for each day of the week to work on.
Reading Our reading target for the week is to identify topic, main idea, and supporting details. Topic is what the whole text is about. The main ideas are important points about each topic. Each paragraph can have its own main idea. Supporting details are facts and examples that support each main idea.
The students will finish reading Earthquake Terror this week. There will be a vocabulary test on Friday of this week. The students will make their vocabulary word list on Monday and those will be the words they are tested on. They should be able to write the word in a good sentence so that I can tell that they have a good understanding of the meaning of the word without it being a definition. They should also know the definition of the words and be able to complete sentences using their words correctly.
English In English there will be a test covering adverbs on Friday of this week. The students will have homework through the week to help them review the skills in chapter 7.
Science - The students will learn about the pulley and the wheel and axle. How do these simple machines help people do work?
Social Studies - The students will learn about the history of the Grand Canyon and the people of the Canyon- the Anasazi, Pueblo, and Havasupai. They will also understand why the Spanish explorers came to the Grand Canyon.
