LANGUAGE ISATS........AWESOME SCORES!!

Just to let you know, our class did great on the Language ISATs. Our percent proficiency was very high. Thanks for being great students and great parents. We have two more ISATs to go and then the IRI.

Dates to remember:

April 19th-29th: Parent request for teachers are available in the office

Tuesday, April 19, 2011: End of Fifth 6-Week grading period

Ongoing popcorn fundraiser

Thursday, April 21, 2011: Reading ISAT

Thursday, April 21, 2011: 5:30-7:30 Parent Teacher Conference Open House

Friday, April 22, 2011: Earth day field clean-up as a school

Thursday, April 28, 2011: Math ISAT test

Wednesday, May 4, 2011: IRI

Friday, May 13, 2011: Individual class Talent Show

Our Literature Selection of study this week is Pepita Talks Twice.

We are excited to have a new student in our class who used to live in Mexico when she was a little girl. It will be great to have her help us with some of the Spanish Words in the story. She speaks Spanish very well.

Spelling list focuses on words ending with /er/ or words ending with /le/

summer

winter

little

October

travel

color

apple

able

November

ever

later

purple

Math:

We are finishing our Unit on customary and metric lengths and measurements. We will finish the this Wednesday. We will then start reviewing for the Math ISAT test. These are some really great things to be working on at home:

rounding

subtraction over zero

multiplication

basic addition and subtraction

associative property

commutative property

customary lengths and measurements

multiplication

subtraction over zeros

subtraction and addition with

regrouping

money

time

***Did I mention subtraction over zeros and multiplication???????

Science:

This week will also conclude our study of health and nutrition. We will end the year learning about life cycles and even grow butterflies in our classroom from a kit.

Have a lovely week!! (Exclamatory sentence)

Questions of the week:

Why was Jay Berry finally able to catch the monkeys in Summer of the Monkeys.

Name a story we studied that is non-fiction (one that really happened)