News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 29-Oct.3

Its going to be a "Wormy" week!  

Monday, Sept. 29 - Worms are due.  The students will need to bring an Earthworm to school.They can find this in their backyard or they may go to the store and buy one.  Walmart has been a place that many students have found some worms.  If you find extra worms, please feel free to send them in It is always good to have extra worms.   The students have received information about the habit they will need to create for their worms, and we have discussed this in class.

Remember that at the end of the week they will take their worm home to put back outside, and they will  have to bring a new one back to school when they finish their worm tracks, which will be the following week. (More information about race tracks will follow.)

Math - There will be a quiz on Tuesday over lessons 1-4 in unit 2.  The students should review the work in their binder and can bring their workbooks home to study.  They will also be adding and subtracting multi-digit  whole numbers and subtracting across zeros.

Spelling - The students will be working with words that have the short u, /yoo/, and /oo/ sounds.  They will be responsible for completing workbook pages 52-54.  If they pass out on the pretest, they will be assigned alternate words and activities for the week.


Reading - We will continue to Close read Martin Luther King's, "I have a Dream" speech. The students will write the lessons  about courage that they feel MLK is trying to teach through his speech.  The students will read a poem, What If...They will create a page in a classroom book about a famous person and his accomplishments and write about what if they did not follow their dream or stay persistent with their goal.

English - We will begin a unit on capitalization and punctuation.  The students will proofread sentences for missing capital letters and end marks.  They will capitalize names of people, pets, places and things.  They will write abbreviations correctly for titles, addresses, months, and days.
Does your child know their address?  They should be able to write their address correctly using abbreviations appropriately for streets, roads, avenues and states.

Science - This week we will begin our worm unit.  The students will make observations about their worm.  Throughout the week they will be setting up the scientific method to test  their hypothesis.

Social Studies - The students will identify the key steps in the production of maple syrup.  They will explain why grapes grow well in certain areas of the Northeast.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 22-Sept. 26

Thursday, Sept. 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00


Math - There will be a test on Tuesday of this week over Unit 1 Place Value.  The students should review the sheets in their folders.  They will be given a practice test  to help them review the skills and concepts they should know on Monday for homework.

Spelling- The students will be working with the spelling patterns for long i and o and short i and o sounds.  They will be responsible for workbook pages 37-39 in volume 1 throughout the week unless they passed out of the unit words.  Then they will be expected to do the activities for the week with their alternate words. There will be a test on Friday of this week.

English - There will be a test on Thursday of this week over chapter 1, The Sentence.  The students will be getting homework throughout the week to help them review the skills we have learned in this chapter.

Reading -   We will continue working with the text, Happy Birthday Dr. King. We will be focusing on cause and effect. We will then turn our focus on Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream Speech."   There will be a vocabulary test on Friday of this week.  The students have been working on their words, and they can use these sheets to help them study.  ( Protest, power, Civil Rights, boycott, fare assembly, stupendous, slip, basement, rear, speech, chimed, dopey)


Social Studies - This week in social studies the students will study the resources of the Northeast. They  will understand why the Northeast is an excellent location for growing grapes and cranberries, and the role that maple syrup has in the life of a plant and how it is produced and harvested.  Minerals are also an important resource of the Northeast and the students will understand what minerals are and where they come from.

Science - The scientific method will be studied this week. We will conduct an experiment based on the scientific method and the students will understand and set up the steps of the scientific method for experiments.    A test over the Introductory Chapter is planned for Tuesday, Sept. 30.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 15-19

Friday, Sept. 19- Zoo field trip.  Be sure to dress for the weather and bring a sack lunch.
Thursday, Sept. 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00


Math- This week in math the students will estimate numbers by rounding them.  They will work on their problem solving skills.  There is a test scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 23 over unit 1.  The students may bring their books home to study from them or they should also study the pages in their math binders.

Spelling - The students will be working with words that have the long a, long e, short a and short e word patterns. They will be responsible for completing workbook pages 17-19 or if they passed the pretest with 95% or greater, they will be responsible for completing the activities and learning the alternate list of words.  There will be a test on Friday.

English - In English this week, the students will understand that sentences are made up of subjects and predicates.  They will recognize the complete subject and predicate and the simple subject and predicate of a sentence.  A test over Chapter 1 The Sentence is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 24th.

Reading-  In reading we will begin our Courage unit, We will read the story Happy Birthday Dr. King.  The Skills we will be focusing on are cause and effect and answering text dependent questions. 

Science -We will continue the introduction chapter of "Getting Ready for Science".  The students worked in groups on Friday to construct a building out of straws.  We will test the buildings on Monday to see how sturdy they are. We will then use inquiry skills to identify and control variables, draw conclusions along with  gather/record/interpret/ and display data.

Social Studies:   This week we will continue  our study of the Northeast. The students will learn how the Niagara Falls were formed and understand their main features.   They will identify the three main mountain ranges in the Northeastern part of the Appalachian Mountains.  They will also study the characteristics of the Northeast coastline. 

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Sept. 8-12

Tuesday, September 9 - Field trip permission slips to Brookfield Zoo are due.
Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 8 & 9 -  MAP testing


It was so nice meeting many of you at Curriculum Night. Remember if you have any questions feel free to send me an 
e-mail. 

Here is the plan for the week:

Math:  We will review the main concepts  from last week:  You can find the relative value of a digit in a multi-digit whole number by looking at its place value. The value of a digit in a whole number is ten times greater than its value in the place to its right.  

They will be quizzed on Wednesday on reading numbers into the millions place.  

They will compare numbers using a number line and a place-value chart and they will order numbers by using a place -value chart and comparing the digit values.  There will be a quiz on Friday over lessons 1-4.  See their folders for the work we have been doing to help review, and they can bring their books home as well.

Spelling: The list this week will be another review of commonly misspelled words.  There will be a pretest on Monday and a test on Friday.  Each night they will have an activity to do for that day.   This will be on a sheet they have in their folders.

English- This week in English we will focus on writing sentences.  The students will review what sentences are made of and how to write good sentences.  They will also review the different kinds of sentences (declarative-statement, imperative-command, exclamatory, and interrogative-question).  

Reading- This week in reading we will continue our review of the reading strategies using the Pumpkin Runner.  We will review evaluation and summarizing    We will also review the daily five reading and writing and listening activities.  

Social Studies - We will begin our tour of the Northeast region.  The students will learn about the states that make up the region.  They will have a homework assignment to color and label their map.  A rubric will go home with them to follow.  This will be due on Thursday of this week.  We will have a quiz on Friday over the map.  They should be able to place the states in the correct spot on the map.  Spelling does not count, but if I can not read it at all, then it will be marked wrong.  They will get extra points for know the capitals of the states.  

Science - Last week we compared using standard to non-standard units of measure, and discussed why scientists need to use standard units of measure.  This week we will investigate our tools of inquiry.  The students will understand the different tools used for observing, handling and measuring.