Week of April 9th

Each Friday we will be testing the students in math on our fact set of the week. It will be a timed test. Each week if the students master the skill for the week, they will earn a topping for our ice cream party at the end of the year. Please see the homework for the skills of the week for each class. Since this was the homework for the students all year, we will be putting their knowledge to the test now that the year is coming to a close. Please continue to review these at home.

Writer's Workshop:
We are working on our creative narrative unit and are focusing on including good details and describing words. The kids will go through the writing process to write a creative story this week.
Monday: Create a tree map with all of our story elements parts
Tuesday: Use our tree map to make a flow map. Add an opening and closing sentence.
Wednesday: Finish adding details to our flow map and begin our rough drafts.
Thursday: Finish our rough drafts then edit and revise them.
Friday: Write our final drafts and share in a small group.

Project Group:
We are continuing with our Economics unit. This week the kids are we are reviewing the concepts of goods and services, and types of resources through literature and art. The kids are doing well with picking up the new vocabulary through our play-dough economics lessons.

Reading:

Mrs. Johns' Reading:

Story of the week: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Junior Great Books Series)
Words of the week: who, will, tell, why, them

We will be doing a lot of comprehension work with the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story this week, including sequencing, character maps, and exploring the setting.

Ms. Aguilar's Reading:
Miss Abeyta will be teaching our reading unit this week.


Story of the Week: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Genre: realistic fiction
Comprehension Skill: identifying the plot of the story
Word Wall Words: green, gym, jump, junk, girl, it's

Mrs. Sullivan's Reading:
Word family - suffixes ly and ment
dictation words:
(ly) quickly, softly, quietly, loudly
(ment) treatment, excitement, enjoyment, advertisement
High frequency words: said, teacher, almost, about, could

Dictation sentences:
For dictation sentences this week I would like for each student to write one paragraph about
what they like about reading class. The paragraph should contain at least 5 sentences.
Students should use cups to edit the paragraph. Turn in the final edited paper by Friday.

We are practicing comprehension skills this week, including predicting, sequencing, and finding details for the beginning, middle, end of a story.

Math:
Mrs. Johns' Math: This week in math, we will start spending a few minutes each day on test taking strategies in preparation for the Stanford 10 test. We will continue working to organize and analyze data as well as reviewing needed skills during centers.

Monday: Introduction to a new Test Taking Strategy & Tile Math
Tuesday: Data
Wednesday: Data
Thursday/Friday: Centers

Ms. Aguilar's Math: In math this week we will continue to add double digit numbers without regrouping and also do subrtaction. We will continue to review place value.
Monday: Double digit math centers
Tuesday: Double digit math centers
Wednesday: Double digit math centers
Thursday: Double digit math centers
Friday: Double digit math centers

Mrs. Sullivan's Math: This week in math, we will start spending a few minutes each day on test taking strategies in preparation for the Stanford 10 test. We are also learning place value and double digit addition.