Monday, May 9, 2016

May 9th to 13th

We hope every one had a relaxing weekend and that all Moms were pampered on Sunday!
We have 18 days left of school!

This week:

Themes
We will be starting our Floating and Sinking unit this week.  Students will investigate why some objects float while other sink through various predictions, experiments, observations and conclusions.

Math
We will conclude our unit on measurement this week looking at Area, Time and Units of Measurement conversion.  Chapter 9 test will be given the following Wednesday, May 18th.
IXL Z.17, Z.18, Z.32- Due Wednesday

Reading:
We have started reading our second novel in literature circles. Remember to come prepared for discussions. We will also be reading Salsa Stories and several sample Memoirs in order to write our own.

Writing
We have finished our informative essays and they were very well written! We will work on writing memoirs, including special moments throughout elementary. Pretty soon these children will move on to middle school!

Grammar
We will continue to review adjectives and adverbs this week. IXL V.1, W1, W2
Map testing continues this week with Reading and Language.