Newsletter--Week of 5/2

News from 3P

Week of: May 2, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be continuing with poetry and figurative language. We are excited to have Bill the Poet visit tomorrow to help us write some poetry of our own! Students will also continue to work with nonfiction short passages. With the nonfiction passages, students will be required to find the main idea of each passage and supporting details too! ****Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our narrative topics and be putting all our pieces together to write our own stories!  Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J

Science: This week we will continue our study of Earth and its changes. We will focus on how volcanoes and earthquakes can change the way the Earth looks. We will also introduce the vocabulary: Erosion and Weathering.

Math: Students will continue with perimeter and area. We will also talk about the Distributive Property and how we can use it to solve for the area of a shape.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. May 3-Bill the Poet Visit

Thank you SO much for all of the beautiful flowers today! My day was definitely made brighter by all of your thoughtfulness!