“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help” – Cesar Chavez
Important Information
It is Holy Week this week, so we only have school on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
“Stuffed” Animal Reports and Student Self-Assessments are due Tuesday.
Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school everyday.
Academics
Math: The overall grades on the last math test, were not good. I am not counting the grades, and I will continue to review perimeter and area with the class. We are learning about time. I will not be giving a test on this unit. When we come back from our long spring break, we will start fractions.
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 4 Spelling Words
- sale
- sail
- beet
- beat
- rode
- road
- rowed
- its
- it’s
- your
- you’re
- their
- they’re
- peace
- piece
- taught
- talked
- bought
- seen
- scene
Social Studies: This week we will learn about American heroes. We will focus on Anne Hutchinson, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and Harriet Tubman.
Science: We are learning about how seeds disperse and the plant’s life cycle.
Religion: This week we are focusing on what happening during the days leading up to Jesus dying on the cross and then rising on Easter Sunday.
TEST and QUIZZES
Tuesday Spelling Test.
Wednesday Reading Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]