Monday, April 28th
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 Words: public, music, picnic, picnicking, during, endure, police, truly, true, father, anything, table, high, June, right, write, wrote, date, March, march
Spelling Test on Thursday!
Your scholar will start our last classic to keep "A Cricket in Time Square" by George Selden. Scholars will be identifying setting and character motives (character traits), definition of personification, practice fluency and decoding, and recognize anthropomorphism.
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.
It will be counted as a quiz grade.
Your scholar will be writing a descriptive outline of their chosen topic while using complete sentences, neat penmanship, proper capitalization, proper punctuation, and using descriptive language.
EDITING CHECK LIST comes home Wednesday, April 30th.
Your scholar will be starting a Unit 8: Graphs. We will be looking at a different graphs each day, picture graphs, bar graphs, tally charts, and Line Plots.
Your scholar will continue learning about Civil Rights Leaders and their impact on history. They will be learning about two important women; Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your scholar will be presenting their Recycle projects on Wednesday! Then we will be jumping back into learning about the moon. They will be learning about the effects of the moon has on earth.
RECYCLE PROJECT DUE on Wednesday, April 30th
MOON WATCH PROJECT DUE on Wednesday, May 7th
MOON STUDY GUIDE sent home on Thursday, May 1st
Your scholar will be practicing at school but we highly encourage parents to help their scholar practice each day at home. Making sure that they are showing expression, following punctuation, and saying the title and author.