Newsletter 4-30 5-4

Reminders:

4/30 Orchestra Concert – 7:00

5/1 – Drama Assembly in school

5/11 – Bike Safety Awareness

5/14 – 5/18 PARP week ( note was already sent home)

5/23 Science performance test

5/24 Kindergarten registration

5/25 – No school

5/30 Field Day

This week’s ELA topics:

·         Writing – writing about 1 topic using LOTS of details
                        -  "Can the reader infer your meaning?"

·         Grammar – Comparing adverbs

·         ELA – We’ll resume our reading workshop where we read to self and read to someone

·         Spelling – add –ed and –ing to base words

This week’s Math topics:

·         We’ll begin a focus on money.

·         Counting money – change and amounts

·         Uses of money

·         Saving vs. spending

This week’s Science topics:

·         We’ll wrap up exploring simple machines.  Wednesday and Thursday we’ll have lab days where we’ll create simple machines

·         Test Friday!