Reading is Groovy

*During our reading workshop this week we will be working on character development.  We will practice this with various texts and passages.  We will be focusing on phrasing to enhance reading fluency.

* Encourage students to read carefully each night and complete their Read At Home Logs.  These logs will be taken as a 100 point grade each week.  We want to ensure that they understand and remember what they read:)  

 *Since students are moving into more chapter books, they will not be expected to take an AR test everyday.

Surfing the Math Wave

*We will begin our geometry unit.  We will be discussing the 6 basic geometric figures ( sphere, cone, cube, pyramid, rectangular prism, and cylinder.  We will be concentrating on each figures attributes.  We are continuing to work on our multiplication facts also.  Please make sure your child does their math worksheet each night.  This will be counted as a homework grade at the end of the nine weeks.

SCIENCE

*We will be starting our unit on rock and minerals. 

LANGUAGE

 We will be working on writing friendly letters. We will be focusing on the main parts of a friendly letter.  This week's homework will consist of writing friendly letters.  There will be no DLR this week.

DOL test will be on Friday.  Below are the sentences as they appear in the morning when the students have to correct them.  Students will be given the incorrect sentences on Friday and asked to rewrite them correctly.

DOL sentences

HOMEWORK

READING --   Read at least 20 minutes each night.  Read at Home Log

MATH --  math problems

LANGUAGE--  writing friendly letters