Week of April 15th

Important Dates to Remember:

• Friday, April 19th - No School: Good Friday
• Wednesday, April 24th - Anderson Music will be here to fit students for instruments.
• Tuesday, April 30th - MSTEP Testing (ELA Part 1)
• Wednesday, May 1st - April Reading logs are due 
• Wednesday, May 1st - ACES Walk 
• Thursday, May 2nd - MSTEP Testing (ELA Part 2) 
• Tuesday, May 7th - MSTEP Testing (Math)
• Thursday, May 9th - Field Trip: Nature Center 
• Friday, May 17th - Half Day: Dismissal at 11:40  
• Tuesday, May 21st - NWEA Testing 
• Thursday, May 23rd - NWEA Testing 
• Friday, May 24th - Half Day: Elementary Only 
• Monday, May 27th - No School: Memorial Day 
• Friday, June 7th - Field Day 
• Wednesday, June 12th - Mini Society Market Day 
• Friday, June 14th - Last day of school: Dismissal at 11:40

The book reports are officially finished and they were great!  Thank you for all of your hard work and support on these projects!  Corrected rubrics will be going home in Friday folders. 

Math: We're just about at the end of our Division unit.  Our goal with division is to ensure students can solve division problems, interpret the remainder and be able to solve long division problems (including word problems) with 1 divisor and a 4 digit dividend.  We've been taking very small steps with these skills and we have made so much progress!  I have reminded the kiddos about the importance of making sure their facts are committed to memory because this will make learning long division so much easier.  We will be reviewing and testing next week.  Keep your eyes peeled for a study guide coming home.

Language Arts: In Reading, we're continuing to work through our informational unit.  We have been focusing on main idea and supporting details.  After this, we'll be doing some fun activities to help us with our understanding of main idea and supporting details. We'll start pulling out our Scholastic News articles to help with this. The articles are so interesting and it's been learning about many things as we read them.  We'll also be using the magazines to help us with text features and understanding the importance of them.

In writing, we're chugging right along with our research unit.  Kids have picked a topic they are excited about and we just finished the research process.  Organizing our notes and turning them into paragraphs has taken a lot of practice but our writing is looking good!! We focus a lot on topic sentences.  These are important because they introduce our paragraph and the supporting details follow.  We have made so much growth with our editing and revising skills!  Checking each paragraph is essential before moving onto the next paragraph.  Our final writing will be organized, typed and will have a lot of the text features we've been learning about.  Stay tuned!

Social Studies:  In social studies, we're in the midst of our Human Geography unit. Human Geography is our umbrella topic with several concepts falling under it.  Over the next few weeks, we'll focus on learning how people have changed the earth in positive and negative ways, push and pull factors tied to immigration, and we'll touch briefly on westward migration and slavery.

Science: We just started out Sun, Moon, and Stars unit.  To begin this unit, we'll be focusing on lessons that teach the students about the sun and their shadows.