Our focus this week is on the diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow. Your child brought home the list of words to focus on based on the pretest results.
Regular List: boy, point, sound, ground, our, loyal, house, around, power, without
Challenge List: however, royal, choice, oyster, voyage, annoy, blouse, plow, ouch, route
Your child should have brought a study guide home today. They will need to locate the regions on a Michigan map, as well as, know the following:
Michigan Regions
Smaller Regions within Michigan
Michigan is Part of a Larger Region
We have a Michigan Movement test on Tuesday. The students are bringing home a review paper today. Here are the questions if they misplaced the materials:
We are wrapping up our biography unit for reading and are moving on to research in writing. Today the students have chosen a person that they read about or that they wanted to know more about after looking at the following sites:
Everyone in the room has a different person (therefore if you decide to change your person, please check with me first). We would like to have them bring in additional facts to supplement the materials that they have here. Please bring in printed articles or books from the local library for Friday. Looking ahead…the students will be writing speeches/presentations at school and completing a poster project in the upcoming months at home for a Living Bio Museum (Presentation May 26th at 1:15) on the person that they have researched.
They will be expected to gather information about the following:
We will be doing lots of research work in class, but any help you can give your child at home would be wonderful. Please let me know if you have trouble gathering information, so that I can help them here at school.
We want to celebrate reading with a week of activities at the end of March. During the last week of March, have your child wear/bring the following:
Monday, 3/27: wear a hat with writing on it
Tuesday, 3/28: wear a shirt with writing on it
Wednesday, 3/29: bring your favorite book
Thursday, 3/30: read with a friend and trail mix
Thursday will be Read and Feed Day! We will be reading much of the day and I’d like to provide a snack for the afternoon. We will make a GORP style snack with a bunch of mixed foods. Please send in an unwrapped snack to add to our mix. I sent a note home today with an attached sandwich bag. Please return it by Thursday, March 30th. We have a nut allergy in our classroom.
Here are a few ideas:
Click on the picture below for a great website to practice both area and perimeter. It will definitely get them thinking!
Many are publishing their public issue papers, therefore, our Core Democratic Values test will be on Friday, March 17th. I reviewed with the students today. If your child lost the flashcards, please click on REVIEW for our previous blog post. As always the students asked if I would have something for them to comment on as a review so I have included a Core Democratic Value video below (please note that they do not need to know all of the CDVs that are included in the video):
