April 28, 2017

Dear Families,

Thank you to all of the families who attended our Celebration of Learning on Friday! We hope that you saw many of  the amazing things your children are doing at school! If you didn't get a chance to attend, remind your child to bring their Leadership Notebook home to share!

Thanks so much for all of the donations to our Gardening Goodies Basket for the raffle for Family Fun Night. We have plenty of wonderful goodies for a lucky winner!
 

Some important dates coming up:

*May 5th: Family Fun Night

*May 9th: NWEA test for Reading
*May 9th: Visit from a Master Gardener!
*May 10th: Visit from a Beekeeper!

*May 16th: NWEA test for Math

 

Reading, Writing and Science!
Last week we continued to write our nonfiction texts, many almost finished! Hopefully you saw some rough drafts at our Celebration of Learning. Next week, we'll work on our pamphlets and our website so that we can teach our community about bees!

This week we'll  also learn about Author’s Purpose, the reason why an author writes something. We can remember the different purposes by thinking of PIE’ED: to persuade, to inform, to entertain, to explain, or to describe.

Math: 

This week we took a step back from our Everyday Math units and focused on fractions. We discussed how to compare fractions, reduce them and add them together. While this is not a part of our Everyday Math units, we think this is an important skill to be introduced to before your child goes to third grade. We will be starting unit 8 next week and if you are following along with the homelinks, we will be completing lessons 8.1-8.5. We'll keep you posted on when our next test will be. Here are the IXL skills for unit 8.
 

1.        T.1Name the two-dimensional shape

2.    T.2Select two-dimensional shapes

3.    T.3Count sides and vertices

4.    T.4Compare sides and vertices

5.    T.5Flip, turn, and slide

6.    T.6Identify congruent shapes

7.    T.7Symmetry

8.       U.1Name the three-dimensional shape

9.    U.2Select three-dimensional shapes

10. U.3Count vertices, edges, and faces

11.  U.4Compare vertices, edges, and faces

12. U.5Identify faces of three-dimensional shapes

13. U.6Identify shapes traced from solids

14. U.7Shapes of everyday objects I

15. U.8Shapes of everyday objects II

16.    Y.1Count equal groups

17. Y.2Identify multiplication sentences for equal groups

18. Y.3Write multiplication sentences for equal groups

19. Y.4Relate addition and multiplication for equal groups

20.Y.5Write multiplication sentences for arrays

 

 

 Have a great week!