Week 31
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
Welcome back! First, I want to thank our class moms for all they do to support our class. We had a wonderful Easter party thanks to their effort. On that same note, PLEASE, if you haven’t had the opportunity to send in the $5 for our WINGO basket, please do so by TUESDAY. Wingo is a great fundraiser run by our PTFA.
I hope you had a wonderful Easter break. I am looking forward to everyone working to the best of his or her ability as we prepare to become 4th graders!
Some special notes about this week:
Tuesday – Letters to Pastor Froehlich are due on this day. Also, the students will be rehearsing for the spring musical with Mr. DeVries, and they must have their scripts in school. UPDATE: TUESDAY IS A DRESS UP DAY
Wednesday – Picture Day – This is a dress up day.
Thursday – Hofstra Art Travelers are coming to Trinity.
ELA: We are reading “Life on the Ice”. The target skills we are working on are Main Ideas and Details. Additionally, we are focusing on Literal and Nonliteral meanings. The target strategy is infer/predict. The vocabulary words this week are shelter, colony, constant, wilderness, climate, region, unexpected,gliding, overheated, and layer. The vocabulary strategies are using dictionary and glossaries. In grammar we are focusing on adverbs. Our spelling words this week are all compound words: birthday, anyone, sometimes, everything, homework, afternoon, airplane, grandmother, something, without, himself, faraway, sunburned, daylight, someone, cannot, scorekeeper, and everybody. We will be having the following ELA tests this week: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Spelling.
This week we will be drafting our animal research report.
Math: We are continuing with measurement. This week we will cover length, volume, and mass. Next week, we will have a chapter 10 test on time, length, volume, and mass.
Religion: This week we are studying why God sent his son to save us. There is no religion memory this week.
Science: We are covering how living things compete.
Social Studies: We are beginning to studying the geography of China. Next Friday, May 5th, we are going to have a test covering pages 172-181.
It is going to be a busy week! If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know at [email protected].