“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
Important Information
On Friday we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. It is Green Day at Trinity, so everyone should wear something green.
I can’t believe that we are two-thirds of the way through the school year. The second trimester ends on Friday.
Books for the stuffed animal reports are due on Tuesday, March 12. Please make sure your child get their book approved by that date.
Please make sure that your child is checking the band schedule. Everyone has band on Tuesday and Friday. Also, everyone has a lesson at another time during the week. Mr. Stainkamp usually emails the band schedule on Fridays.
Academics
Math: We have begun Module 11. Our focus will be on perimeter and area.
ELA: For Unit 4, Weeks 3 and 4 our essential question is “ How do animals adapt to challenges in their habitat?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary and spelling words.
- Genre: Expository Text
- Shared Reading: Gray Wolf! Red Fox!
- Anchor Text: Amazing Wildlife of the Mojave
- Paired Selection: Little Half Chick
- Reread
- Maps and Captions
- Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
- Theme
- Vocabulary Words
- alert
- competition
- environment
- excellent
- prefer
- protection
- related
- shelter
- Week 3 Spelling Words
- taught
- hauls
- caused
- paused
- squawk
- drawing
- crawl
- flawless
- lawn
- salt
- talked
- halls
- water
- bought
- thoughtless
- inches
- cities
- cherries
- walrus
- autumn
TEST and QUIZZES
Friday: Spelling Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]