Reminders:
3/28 – CapCom writing contest entry due
3/28 – Scotia-Glenville presentation on Simple Machines
3/30 – Third Quarter Ends
4/6-4/15 – Spring Recess
This week’s topics:
· Writing – During our writing time we’ll be completing out final product in our animal research project
· Café – main idea, detail, theme, and inference review within ELA test preparation
· Vocabulary –food chain, web, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, decomposer, predator, prey, consumer, producer
· Spelling – /el/ using le or al at the end of a word (list 22)
· Grammar – adjectives
This week’s topics:
· Rounding decimals
· Word problem strategy – working backwards
· Estimate sums and differences in decimals
· Adding and subtracting decimals
· Review
· Test Friday
· Fact test Wednesday April 4th!!!
This week we’ll discuss the food chain and web in depth. We’ll watch videos on the subject as well as create our own chains and webs. This is a very exciting topic! We’ll tie in the idea of life cycle as well, which we’ll study more in-depth soon. Please be on the lookout for an invitation to our Animal Research Presentation. The date will be after spring recess.
