Newsletter 3-19 to 3-22

Reminders:

3/20 – First day of spring

3/21 – PTA meeting 6:30 in library

3/22 – Book order due

3/23 – No school

3/28 – CapCom writing contest entry due

This week’s topics:

·         Writing – We’ll be taking a Venn diagram we completed about animals who have adapted to glow and create an essay using the IBBC format (intro, body, body conclusion)

·         Café – note taking  

·         Vocabulary – decimal, decimal point, tenth, hundredth, habitat, food chain, web

·         Spelling – r controlled vowels ar, ir, or, ur, er all saying /er/

·         Grammar – adjectives

This week’s topics:

·         Introduction to decimals

·         10^th and 100^th

·         Comparing and ordering decimals

·         Fact test Wednesday March 21^st!!!

          Our NYS animal research got off to a great start!  We’ve learned how to use indexes to make good use of searching both books and encyclopedias.  We’ve also learned the importance of citing our work and giving credit to other authors.  This week we’ll finish our research using the computer lab and the internet.