News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room March 23-March 27

Tuesday, March 24- OLSAT testing- -8:15-9:15.
Thursday, March 26- Invention Convention Contracts are due
Friday, March 27 - In school field trip with Dupage Children's Museum-Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys.
Monday, March 30 Spring Break
Wednesday, April 8 - Classes resume
Spirit Week Agenda:

MonSpring Training Day - Cubs vs. Sox - support your favorite team and wear something Cubs or Sox.

Tue Shades Day - wear your sunglasses to school.

WedThink Spring Day - wear spring colors (yellow, pink, light blue, green, etc.)

ThurHat Day - wear your favorite hat.

FridaComfy Clothes Day - wear your most comfortable clothes to school - including pajama pants if you wish.
Invention Convention:  Information about our Invention Convention will be going home on Monday of  this week.   There is a calendar of when things are to be turned in on the back of the letter.  The students will work on their contracts on Tuesday and Wednesday and have it signed by a parent to be sure this is an invention that can be done. It will be due on Thursday.  I will go over their contracts with them and give them an approval so they may begin working on their invention right away.

Math - This week the students will add, subtract, fractions and mixed fractions.  They will multiply fractions and they will also learn to simplify all their answers.

Spelling- The students will be working with Vowel Consonant Vowel (VCV)  spelling patterns this week.  They will be responsible for pages 175-177 in their workbook.  If they pass out of the pretest, they will work on alternate activities with an alternate list.

English- The students will be working with figurative language and adjectives this week.  They will study idioms, hyperbole, metaphors, similes, irony, and personification. They will use the figurative language to describe their favorite "Hot Spot".  Where is their favorite place to go in the summer?  But don't let them tell anyone because we want to keep it a secret so others will have to guess where it is based on their description.

Reading - The students will continue to read The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane. They will understand the meaning of the word persevere as it relates to the story and a poem entitled Try, Try Again.  They will describe a time when they have had to persevere and how they handled it.
Science - The students will be working on their human body slide show this week.  They should be ready to share it by Wednesday of this week.

Invention Convention:  Information about our Invention Convention will be going home on Monday of  this week.   There is a calendar of when things are to be turned in on the back of the letter.  The students will work on their contracts on Tuesday and Wednesday and have it signed by a parent to be sure this is an invention that can be done. It will be due on Thursday.  I will go over their contracts with them and give them an approval so they may begin working on their invention right away.

Social Studies - This week the students will travel to the Southwest.  Their colored map is due on Monday of this week and their will be a map quiz on Tuesday. This week the students will learn about the Grand Canyon- the role of erosion in forming the Grand Canyon, the people of the canyon, and visiting the Grand Canyon.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room March 16-20

Wednesday, March 18 - Picture and or Money for pictures are due
Thursday, March 19 - Early Dismissal 11:00 SIP Day


Spelling -This week the students will work with words that have prefixes and suffixes.  They will be responsible for workbook pages 109-111. If they pass out of their pretest, they will have an alternate list of words and activities.

Math -  The students will write mixed numbers and improper fractions.  We will review the skills that they have been working on throughout this chapter.  There are many new skills in this fraction unit, so any extra help you can give our child in reviewing these skills will help them a lot.   This week in math a test is planned for Wednesday, March 18 over Fractions chapter 8.  

English - There will be an English test over adjectives, unit 4 on Tuesday of this week.  The students will have homework to help them review.  They can use the lessons at the end of the chapter to help them practice, and they can do the proofreading activity in Google Classroom.

Reading- The students will continue to read The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane.  They will understand how Edward is beginning to change on the inside as we discuss the reactions and emotions he experiences.  They will understand what it means to persevere and write about a time they have had to persevere and how they handled it.  We will also read a poem Try, Try, Again and discuss how the word persevere relates to the poem.

Science-The students will work on a Human body project.  They will work with one or two other people to research a body system.  They will follow a rubric to create a slide show with their research.

A test is planned for Friday,  March 20, over the Body Systems.  The students should study the main vocabulary and concepts from the book, and use all the notes in their binder.

They should know:
the different kinds of joints and muscles
understand how muscles  work to move bones
understand the steps in digestion
understand the different systems and main parts in them
understand and be able to explain what happens if you fall and scrape your knee
know the different jobs of the bones
understand and be able to explain  how messages are carried from the brain throughout your body.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room March 9-13

March 9,11,13 - PARCC Testing
March 16 - Early Dismissal


Math- The students will review reducing fractions to its simplest form.  They will compare and order fractions creating equivalent fractions, and they will use benchmark fractions to compare and order fractions.

English - In English this week, the students will use more to compare two things and most to compare more than two things. They will use comparative and superlative forms of the words good and bad.  There is an adjective test unit 4 planned for Tuesday, March 17.

Reading - This week in reading,  The students will continue to read  and discuss the story of Edward Tulane.  They will use their journals to respond  how Edward is changing and realizing what the important things in life are.    The students will have a vocabulary test on Thursday of this week.  They should know the meanings of the words as used in the story and be able to use the context of a sentence to figure out the meaning of  the words.

Science-  How does your body think and move?  This week in science, the students will describe the jobs of the nervous system and muscular system, and the skeletal system.  The will describe how the muscular and skeletal systems work together to move the body.

Social Studies-The students will finish their Just Look books and prepare to share them with the class.