Monday, April 15, 2024

Quarter 4 Week 5

Monday, April 15th

This week we will be learning:

Spalding:

Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.

Spelling Review Words: March, march, next, indeed, four, herself, power, wish, world, because, cause, country, meet, meat, another, tripped, trip, list, people, ever, held, church, once, one, own, before, dead.

Cursive: We will start having our weekly phonograms, homework, and spelling test in cursive.

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar had Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Literature: 

Your scholar will start our next classic to keep "A Cricket in Time Square" by Garth Williams. Scholars will be identifying setting and character motives (character traits), definition of personification, practice fluency and decoding, and recognize anthropomorphism.

CURRENT Classic to Keep Needed: April 3rd 
The Boxcar Children by: Gertrude Channer Warner
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.

Next Classic to Keep Needed:
The Cricket in Times Square by: George Selden
ISBN: 978-0312380038/ Amazon Link 
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.
DUE: Wednesday, April 24th  


Reading Log:

Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult

Each day please log:

 1. The title of the classroom library book read.

 2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).

 3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.

Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.  

It will be counted as a quiz grade


Grammar:
Your scholar will be practicing listening skills, reinforce summary writing summary writing through recollection of detail and differentiation of main idea. They will also continue practice to pronouns and labeling parts of speech within a sentence. 
 
Math:
Your scholar will continue their time unit this week They will focus on telling time to the minute and using Past/Till to explain the time. They will also be working on AM vs PM and drawing the minute hand on the clock.

Unit Quiz: Thursday, April 18
 

  Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned. 
 
 
History:
 
Your scholar will be coming to end the Immigration and Citizenship Unit. 

TEST: Thursday, April 18th
 
 
Science:
Your scholar will be learning about the effect of water on landforms.
 
Important Dates: 

Apr. 19 - Early Release, Run Club

Apr. 26 - Holiday; R&R Weekend

May 3 - Early Release; Spring Choir Concert (Trinity Baptist Church)

May 30 - Last Day of School