Monday, April 7th
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: election, elect, aboard, jail, shed, refuse, broke, plan, least, dollar, distract, restrain, royal, objection, object, pleasure, please, measure, treasure, navy, forty, fourteen, fourth, four, population, populate, proper, judge, weather, whether, worth
Cursive: All Spalding assignments are to be done in cursive!!
Spelling Test on Friday!
Your scholar will continue Boxcar Children. They will build their reading comprehension by defining new vocabulary bases on context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.
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.
Your scholar will reflect on what their two favorite animals are and create an expository paragraph. Students should use their previous knowledge on how to write in complete sentences by using capital letters, end marks, and checking that they make complete sense. Students should also use descriptive words to describe their animals.
Editing Checklist will be sent home on Tuesday, April 8th.
(Please walk through the checklist with your scholar and make corrections along the way. Also, please make sure it is returned the next day so your scholar can continue in their writing process)
Your scholar will be working on skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, and working on repeated addition practice. The scholars will be taking their unit test this Friday.
Review sent home: Thursday, April 10th
Unit Test: Friday, April 11th
Your scholar will continue the Immigration and Citizenship Unit. They will be learning what types of work immigrants did and the many contributions they made toward America becoming a strong and powerful company. They will be learning about Andrew Carnegie, Irving Berlin, and Dr. Albert Sabin and the significants to history.
Science:
Scholars will learn about the functions of the excretory system. They will also explore the five main food groups and give examples for each. Scholar will start the next unit learning about natural resources. The will be able to tell the difference between natural and human-made resources.
Digestive System Review sent home: Tuesday, April 8th
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.