Week of April 29

     This week we will be having a math test and our Unit 7 spelling test on Friday, May 3.  Progress reports will also be going home on Wednesday, May 1.

     This week we will begin learning about the different sacraments in religion class.  We will also continue to learn about how we can grow as disciples of Jesus.

     In Superkids this week we will be working on ar, or, and ear trickers.  Friday we talked about how these letters do not always make the sounds that we learned about in Unit 5, sometimes they make the er sound.  Students have finished writing their biopoems and we will be putting them into Wordle using the computer lab.  This week we will also be reading three different stories in our readers and working on identifying reality/fantasy, sequence of events, and drawing conclusions from what we read.  We will also continue to practice identifying main idea and cause and effect using our interactive SMARTboard games.

     In Math this week students will be working on fractions, and we will be making fraction kites.  They will also work on measuring and drawing line segments to the nearest inch, geometric solids (cylinders and cubes), bar graphs, and problem solving strategies.  We will also continue to practice our math skills using our ipads, IXL, xtramath, and our SMARTboard games. 

     During Science this week we will be doing various experiments/activities involving worms.  Students read in our Super-Duper magazine last week about different types of worms and where they can be found.  We will be making a worm farm where hopefully we will be able to see them making tunnels.  We will also begin working on our last inquiry unit Creature Features.

     For our Community Inquiry Unit this week students will be choosing a community worker to write about, making a map of our community, creating a business that they would like to be in our community, and working on putting together our scrapbook.