“The price of greatness is responsibility” – Winston Churchill
Important Information
Our field trip is to the Waterfront Center is on this Wednesday. Children need to bring their lunch to school for this trip. We will be eating it at the Waterfront Center. Students are to wear their school uniforms and sneakers. Let’s all pray for nice weather!
The Spring Concert is fast approaching, and the children have been rehearsing with both Mr. DeVries and Mr. Stainkamp. The concert is on May 14th. I am sure that it is going to be lovely. Just a reminder that students should also be practicing at home.
Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school everyday.
Academics
Math: We are continuing to learn about fractions. This module focuses on comparing fractions with like denominators, like numerators, and missing pieces. We are planning on having the Module 15 test on Friday.
ELA: For Unit 5, Week 1 our essential question is “What do good citizens do?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary and spelling words.
- Genre: Biography
- Shared Reading: ““Dolores Huerta: Growing Up Strong”
- Anchor Text: “Elizabeth Stanton Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
- Paired Selection: “Susan B. Anthony Takes Action!”
- Ask and Answer Questions
- Captions and Timelines
- Author’s Claim
- Text Structure: Cause and Effect
- Vocabulary Words
- citizenship
- continued
- daring
- horrified
- participate
- proposed
- unfairness
- waver
- Week 1 Spelling Words
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- airplane
- daytime
- birthday
- daylight
- hairdo
- somebody
- birdhouse
- barefoot
- headlight
- sometime
- someone
- newspaper
- sidewalks
- basketball
- stagecoach
- placed
- office
- giant
- handwriting
- windshield
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Science: We are focusing on animal behaviors and how they survive living in groups.
Religion: This week we are focusing on messages from God and messengers from God
TEST and QUIZZES
Friday: Spelling and Math Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]