Friday, April 28, 2017

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room May 1-May 5

Important Dates:
Friday, May 12- Early Dismissal 11:35  SIP
Monday, May 29-Memorial Day, No School
Tuesday, May 30- Bowling
Thursday, June 1 - Field Day
Friday, June 2- Last Day of School Early Dismissal, 11:35

Math- This week we will be reviewing division strategies to solve division problems.  There will be a test over unit 6 on Thursday of this week.

Spelling- This week the students will work with contractions.  They will also review idioms.  There will be a test on Friday of this week.

Reading/ELA-This week the students will listen to the story The Velveteen Rabbit and compare the Rabbit in that story to Edward Tulane.

The students will understand proverbs and adages, and apply them to their reading.

We will review how to use quotation marks correctly in their writing and they will write a dialog between the characters in the story applying what they learned.

Science- This week in science the students will understand the job of the nervous system. They will be able to describe how messages from the body reach the brain. They will also understand the three types of muscles and their jobs.