Newsletter--Week of 4/25

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Week of: April 25, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will begin studying poetry and figurative language. We 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 topic 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 We will also begin to write our first few poems. We will be completing a Gum Poem and a Color Poem.

Science: This week we will jump into studying Earth and its changes. We will focus on the layers of Earth and how volcanoes and earthquakes can change the way the Earth looks.

Math: We will be starting to study perimeter and area. Students will be working on different shapes and finding the area and perimeter of each shape.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. April 26-CNO at Jersey Mike’s (10am-9pm)

Wed. April 27-Mile Run at Wheaton College Track-11:-11:40

**Please Note: We will still walk to Wheaton College if there is rain; however, in the case of severe rain or storms, the rain date will be Thursday, April 28.

        

Newsletter--Week of 4/18

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Week of: April 18, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will continue to look at different types of narrative stories and work with nonfiction short passages with comparing/contrasting. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be starting a new narrative and putting all our pieces together to write a great story!  Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J

Science: This week we will review rocks and minerals for our test. Study guides will come home tomorrow and test will be on Friday!

Math: We will finish up with geometry this week. This week students will be reviewing the different shapes they have studied. They will also be continuing to classify shapes into larger shape families. Our final test over Geometry will be on Thursday.

Dates to Remember:

Mon. April 18- Kindergarten Buddies

Tues. April 19- PARCC Testing ELA 1 10:00am-12:00pm

Wed. April 20- PARCC Testing ELA 2 10:00am-12:00pm

Thurs. April 21- PARCC Testing ELA 3 10:00am-12:00pm (LAST one!) 

Thurs. April 21- Geometry Test

Fri. April 22- Rocks and Minerals Test

Our Soccer Tournament

Hi I'm Max. I play soccer for the Wheaton Wings. Before spring break, we won the quarter finals so we had two weeks off before we played in the semi finals and WON! The score was 3 to 1. We played Kopian Blue. They were good, but we played them before and won. I knew I was going to play goalie, so at the house I got on my goliae pants and shirt. In the finals we had a 3 minute break. Then we played Kopian orange for the Championship. We had played them a lot and we tied them in one game. We lost 3-2, but they were undefeated. After the game we handed out awards. I got best keeper so I got a medal.Then we went out for pizza at Barone's. And KOPIAN ORANGE was there! I had a good time.

Newsletter--Week of 4/11

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Week of: April 11, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will continue to look at different types of narrative stories and work with nonfiction short passages with comparing/contrasting. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be choosing another narrative topic and be putting all our pieces together to write our own stories!  

Science: This week we will continue to study rocks. We will review the difference between a rock and a mineral and also the 3 types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. We will then move in to the study of minerals and their properties.

Math: We will continue with geometry this week. This week students will be adding to their geometry dictionaries to help with the shapes we are studying. We will focus on quadrilaterals and then review all the shapes.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. April 12- PARCC Testing Math 1 10:00am-12:00pm

Wed. April 13- PARCC Testing Math 2 10:00am-12:00pm

Thurs. April 14- PARCC Testing Math 3 10:00am-12:00pm

Fri. April 15- PARCC Testing Math 4 10:00am-12:00pm

**Next Week**

Tues. April 19- PARCC Testing ELA 1 10:00am-12:00pm

Wed. April 20- PARCC Testing ELA 2 10:00am-12:00pm

Thurs. April 21- PARCC Testing ELA 3 10:00am-12:00pm

Newsletter--Week of 4/4

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Week of: April 4, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will continue to look at different types of narrative stories. We will also be reading more nonfiction short passages and doing comparing/contrasting. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be reviewing root words, prefixes and suffixes.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be discussing different ways to end our narrative stories. Please ask your child about their favorite way. We will then begin to put together everything that we have learned!  

Science: This week we will be starting to study rocks. We will talk about the difference between a rock and a mineral. We will also introduce the 3 types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary.

Math: This week will begin our study of geometry and shapes. Students will be developing geometry dictionaries to help with the shapes we are studying.

Welcome Back!

Newsletter--Week of 3/21

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Week of: March 21, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will continue to look at different types of narrative stories. We will also be reading some nonfiction short passages and doing comparing/contrasting. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be taking a quick look at what syllables are and how to break up words into multiple syllables.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be discussing different ways to begin our narrative stories. Please ask your child about their favorite way. We will also talk about dialogue and how you use it in our writing! Students will choose their first narrative piece and begin to practice our new ideas.  

Science: This week we will be finishing up the study of weather. Students will be reviewing and taking their test tomorrow.

Math: This week we will be finishing up our study of Time and taking the test tomorrow. Up after break…Geometry!

Dates to Remember:

Tues. March 22—Weather Test

Tues. March 22—Time Test

Wed. March 23—Really Big Dance Show!—during PE at 9:40

Wed. March 23—Kindergarten Buddies

Fri. March 25—NO SCHOOL

Week of March 28-NO SCHOOL! Happy Spring Break!

Newsletter 3/14

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Week of: March 14, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be reading a variety of narrative stories and finding out what narrative elements are. **Students should be reading at least 20 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be continuing to work on simple and compound sentences, and we will try to use them in our writing.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be brainstorming ideas for our first narrative piece. We will focus on a ‘slice’ of a story, meaning a small chunk of time.   

Science: This week we will be finishing up our storm projects and beginning to review for our weather test. Students will complete their study guides and prepare for the test NEXT week.

Math: This week we will be continuing to work on time. The focus will be elapsed time and reviewing what we have worked on so far! We will have a test next week.

Dates to Remember

**NEXT WEEK-Wed. 3/23-Really Big Dance Show during PE, at 9:40!

**As we approach Spring Break, I'd love for some students to write about an activity that they do during the week off! These will be future blog posts as well!