Quarter 4 Week 6

 Monday, April 22nd 

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.

Review Spalding Words: know, on, were, where, there, here, leave, early, close (close the door), close (that was a close call), flower, flour, nothing, ground, lead (please lead the class to recess), led (Sally led the class to recess), lead (my pencil has lead in it), such, morning, however

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

Spelling Test on Thursday! 

Don't forget your scholar had Spalding homework Monday-Wednesday.

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 on Wednesday. Scholars will be identifying setting and character motives (character traits), definition of personification, practice fluency and decoding, and recognize anthropomorphism.

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.

        There is no current poem at this time. Students can use this time to review old poems             or to work on other homework.

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 recording it on the reading log. This reading log will be collected for a grade on Thursday due to the 3-day weekend.   

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 be taking our Unit 7: Time test this week. A review will be sent home on Tuesday, please review and practice with your scholar. We will also be starting our next Unit 8: Data Analysis. We will be looking at and reading picture graphs and bar graphs.

Review: Tuesday, April 23rd (Please review, sign, and return) 

Unit Test: Wednesday, April 24th

 

  Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned. 

 

 

History:

 

Your scholar will be beginning our unit on Civil Rights.

Science:

Your scholar will be continuing their landform unit. This week we will discuss glaciers and geysers.

 

End of Year Happenings!

        As we near the last day of school, your student will begin bringing home items they no longer need         in the classroom such as supply boxes, books, folders, notebooks, & workbooks. This will help            avoid your students having a huge, heavy bag on the last day of school. 

    

What to expect on the last week: 

        - Students will still need a snack and a lunch every day.

        - Students will gradually bring items home over the course of the last two weeks. Please remove               any extra items from backpacks. We will try to record everything that can stay home in the                   agenda or with a sticky note.

        - We will still be learning throughout the week. We will have fun, but we will being using the time            productively!

        - Students will be preparing for the last Spalding and Math tests on 5/30. 

        

What to expect on the last day: 

        - Students will still need a snack and a lunch. 

        - Students will take their last Spalding and Math test, both for a Quarter 4 test grade.

        - Students will bring home any remaining items, which should be very few, from the classroom.

        

Important Dates: 

Apr. 26 - Holiday; R&R Weekend

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

May 27 - Memorial Day, No School 

May 30 - Last Day of School