April 8, 2015 Newsletter
Spring is in the air! The buds on the trees are bursting and the tissues are being used for sure!
ELA:
Students began a unit on social issues. We will be exploring current social issues in our world today through reading narrative and informational texts. It will be important for students to use various comprehension strategies to examine characters, problems, and determine the main idea in text read. They will also be required to engage in collaborative discussion about the text.
In writing students are working on using an organizer to write a biography using research from their Biography in a Bag project. They will also be responding to texts read in class.
Math: Students continue studying fractions. They are comparing fraction using various strategies. Next they will use what they have learned about fractions to partition shapes into fraction pieces, using pattern blocks. drawing, cutting and making quilt squares with different size fraction pieces.
Social Studies:
Students are concluding their 3rd quarter studies of the regions of North Carolina. They will be using their research and collaboratively making posters about their regions. These posters will include the various landforms, climates, people, jobs and places of interest.
The next social studies unit will begin next week. This unit’s topic is Economics and Financial Literacy.
Can You Help?
Our class is having a real shortage of earphones. Would you please check with your child to see if they have working earphones? Thank you!
Important Dates:
April 10 - Super Kids Day 11:15-12:45 (lunch change 10:45)
April 17 - Full Day of School (snow make up time)
April 23 - Zaxby’s Harvest Oaks Spirit Night 5-9
May 7 - Movie Night 5:30
May 19 - EOG Reading 9:30
May 20 - EOG Math 9:30
