Monday, April 29th
LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE ASAP!
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 Words: October, reason, fifth, baking, bake, bowl, cheap, cheerful, chicken, fairy, driving, drive, echo, echoes, knock, leather, linen, mixture, nation, pause, peace, permission, rough, social, society, steal (to take), steel (metal), strange, trophy, afraid
Spelling Test on Friday!
Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.
Literature:
Your scholar will continue 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.
Classic to Keep Needed:
The Cricket in Times Square by: George Selden
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.
Poem:
Furry Bear by A.A. Milne
Due: Week of Monday May 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. Your scholar will be learning about expository writing.
Students will have editing HW on Thursday Night. A parent will need to help them with spelling and grammar edits.
Math:
Your scholar will complete their Data Unit. They will take their unit test on Friday.
Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned.
History:
Your scholar will continue learning about Civil Rights Leaders and their impact on history.
Science:
Your scholar will be learning more about volcanoes and earthquakes.
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:
April 29 - Library Books Due
May 3 - Early Release; Spring Choir Concert (Trinity Baptist Church)
Students need to be with their sections by 4:45pm. Concert starts at 5:30 pm. See Email from GHNO for dress code info.
May 10 - Early Release
May 28 - Early Release
May 29 - Early Release
May 30 - Last Day of School, Early Release