Important Dates:
April 17-No School Teacher Institute Day
April 24- Inventions are due
April 27- Open House
Math-The students will continue to investigate area and perimeter. The students will also continue to use ratio tables and array sketches to solve division and multiplication problems, and they will be using array sketches and ratio tables to solve problems with missing dimensions. There will be a check pt. review quiz on Friday of this week covering this.
Spelling-The students will work with words that have the suffixes el, al, and le. For the test on Friday, they will be asked to spell the words this week as well as know synonyms for the words.
Reading-There will be a test over chapters 18-24 in The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane on Thursday of this week. The students will finish reading the story and we will discuss theme as it relates to the story.
English-This week the students will review the different kinds of figurative language: idioms, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration personification, metaphors, and similes. They will have a test on Friday over this.
Social Studies-The students will understand the early culture of the Navajo and compare it to their life today. They will describe the "Long Walk" and be able to explain how the Navajo Council governs the Navajo Nation.
Science- This week the students will learn about the job of the respiratory system. They will understand the importance of the diaphragm and how it works.
The students should be working on their inventions at home.
