Week of April 25th

Our daily schedule this week will be a little off due to the different testing taking place, mainly TAKS. As a result, our ancillary time will be in the morning on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Math: we will work on making equal parts, equal parts of a whole and parts of sets (fractions); we will continue to work on Fact Families

Language Arts: this week we will work on Long i sound made with -ie and -igh, as in pie and high. The genre for this week is Expository Text which tells about real people, places, and events.

In both Math and Language Arts we will continue to practice test-taking strategies.

Planner: we continue learning about natural resources, the environment, our responsibilitiy as inhabitants of the Earth, and how our actions today impact the environment

After reading The Lorax, the children drafted a letter to the Once-ler to express their thoughts about his actions (Sloppy Copy) ...beginning the Writing Cycle ...

After completing their draft, they exchanged letters and had a partner edit ...completed Final Copies have been posted outside our classroom, take a look!

 How much more money do you need to be able to purchase the eraser?

Making Words: we have been busy making words from the letters in one word.  In the example below, thunder is the word that a student wrote in his journal and then found two other words, then the class helped out with the others ...