Monday, April 23, 2012

Newsletter 4-23-12

Reminders:
Math NYS testing – 4/25, 4/26, 4/27
Rocking Tale of Snow White Performance – 4/27, 4/28


This week’s ELA topics:

·         Writing – friendly letter review
·         Grammar – adverbs
·         ELA – We’ll resume our reading workshop where we read to self and read to someone
·         Spelling - /en/ - sound at the end of words spelled en, on and an
This week’s Math topics:

·         We’ll continue spiraling through our math concepts that have been taught this year. 
·         NYS math test preparations
·         Please make sure that your student has had a good night’s rest, a full breakfast and is on time to school Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!

This week’s Science topics:

·         We’ll continue exploring simple machines.  We’ll create each machine within a small group.
·         Last Friday we discussed Earth day in length focusing mostly on air pollution.  We began an experiment on air quality in school that we’ll be checking on throughout the week.  Our final report will come out Friday.