Math Madness Addition Winner: Congratulations Tyler Good for winning the championship against the best in the school!
We are also super proud of everyone that competed and put in their best effort throughout the whole tournament. Encourage your child to study their facts to take on the top in the school next year!
Happy Thursday parents! I hope you are all just as excited to have off tomorrow as Ms. Duke and I am! I will be venturing to Boulder, Colorado over this long break, so I will not be at school on Monday, April 17th. I will still send a Remind text out keeping all of you updated on homework for the day. Math PSSAs will also be starting up this week and will last for three days, Tuesday through Wednesday. Please try your absolute best to have your child at school during those days so they will not have to make up their test during class time.
Math: Students will be reviewing main concepts that we focused on this year to help prepare them for the PSSAs. Homework will be sent home, but it will be in the form of a worksheet! I will send a Remind making you aware of what worksheet will be assigned each night!
Science: Students will begin their invasive species projects this week! They were each assigned a specific species and are required to research information on their species and format it into a Powerpoint presentation. They will be presenting their findings to the class, which will also be a good portion of their grade. They will have access to their project at home through Google Classroom. If you have a computer at home, your child has permission to work on it there, but please make sure it is their work and not yours. I will attach the rubric for this project so you can see how your child will be graded.
Reading: We are starting a Historical Fiction unit. The students will apply strategies such as analyzing setting and mood, keeping track of story elements, and comparing personal and historical timelines. Our read aloud will be, Number the Stars, a beautifully written and touching novel.
Writing: In our final unit the students will be ultimately writing literary essays. We will be doing some close reading of literature and learning how to grow our ideas. We will identify a these for our story's characters and write detailed paragraphs that include our inferences.
Word Work: The students received new word sorts and Tic Tac Toe Homework will be due Friday, April 21st!
Vocabulary: Our Word of the Day Quiz will be Wednesday, April 19th!
Social Studies: We will be having fun learning our 50 states and capitals! Check out these links for songs and games:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
https://youtu.be/_E2CNZIlVIg
https://youtu.be/uUFeVKeKRQc
Upcoming Dates:
Easter Break: April 14th-16th
Math PSSA: April 24th-28th
Science PSSA: May 1st-3rd
Track and Field Day: May 4th (rain date: May 18th)
No School: May 29th
Last Day of School: June 2nd
Hot Alternate Lunch For Next Week:
Monday: Stuffed Crust Pizza
Tuesday: Fiesta Pizza
Wednesday: Mickey’s Pizza
Thursday: French Bread Pizza
Friday: Mickey’s Pizza
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