Wednesday is a Regular  start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

Students should be working on their Science Expo Project for April 25. Please see the grid here.

Don’t forget to sign up to support on May 3 Field Day. Here is the sign-up link.

Hope to see you at Night of Excellence!

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 4/25/24 Science Expo projects due
• 4/25/24 Night of Excellence
• 4/26/24 No school- Staff work day
• 5/1/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/3/24 Fitness Friday and Field Day
• 5/8/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/15/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/21/24 Bear Creek Nature Center Field Trip Details to come.
• 5/23/24 Last day of school! Noon dismissal.

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

 Unit 8: Weather and Climate. The essential question is How do we understand change?

• Reader: Weather and climate: After the Storm
• Writing: Research Project
• Word Study: hard and soft g
• Grammar:  Pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Comprehension: Metacognitive strategies, central message, metaphors, point of view

SPELLING: Test will be Monday, April 29

Hard and soft g

again	change	damage	gadget	germs	great
orange	revenge	strange	generous	gentleness	management

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 24 Generate equivalent fractions great than 1 by using a number line.
• Lesson: 25 Express whole numbers as fractions with a denominator of 1 
• Module Assessment

SCIENCE:

• Weather and Climate

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Music

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

 CMAS assessment is almost done! Monday is the last session of math. Thank you for having your students on time and at school if they were feeling well.

Wednesday is a Regular  start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

Students should be working on their Science Expo Project for April 25. Please see the grid here.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 4/25/24 Science Expo projects due
• 4/25/24 Night of Excellence
• 4/26/24 No school- Staff work day
• 5/1/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/3/24 Fitness Friday
• 5/8/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/15/24 Late Start Wednesday 10:00 am start
• 5/21/24 Bear Creek Nature Center Field Trip Details to come.
• 5/23/24 Last day of school! Noon dismissal.

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

 Unit 8: Weather and Climate. The essential question is How do we understand change?

• Reader: Weather and climate: Fairweather Clouds and Earth’s Weather and Climate
• Writing: Research Project
• Word Study: hard and soft c
• Grammar:  Adjectives, future tense of verbs
• Comprehension: Metacognitive strategies, central message, metaphors, information gained from illustrations and words, relationship between a series of scientific ideas,

SPELLING: Test will be Friday, April 19

Hard and soft c

accent	cancel	certain	complete	conceal	celebrate
concerned	innocent	scarf	sentence	accident	computer

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 21 Compare various fractions by representing them on number lines.
• Lesson: 22 Identify fractions equivalent to whole numbers by using number lines.
• Lesson: 23 Reason to find fractions equivalent to whole numbers by using patterns and number lines.
• Lesson: 24 Generate equivalent fractions great than 1 by using a number line.

SCIENCE:

• Weather and Climate

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Spanish

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

 CMAS assessment will be each morning from 8:10-10:10 April 8-12 and April 15. We will begin as close to 8:10 as we can. Please make sure your student has had a good night’s sleep and a healthy breakfast. Also, please try to make appointments outside of these times, if you can. If your student is late, they will be held in the commons until we finish assessing at 10:10. They will have to make up the missed session at another time of the day. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Wednesday is a Regular  start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

Students should be working on their Science Expo Project for April 25. Please see the grid here.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 4/8-12/24 CMAS
• 4/15/24 CMAS
• 4/25/24 Science Expo projects due
• 4/25/24 Night of Excellence
• 4/26/24 No school- Staff work day

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

 Unit 7: Communities Then and Now. The essential question is What is a community?

• Reader: Communities Then and Now: Sarah and the Chickens
• Writing: Historical Fiction
• Word Study: variant vowel /ô/
• Grammar:  Dialogue marks and commas
• Comprehension: Apply various strategies and fluency to understand text, make connections, information from text features, author’s point of view, compare and contrast

SPELLING: n/a

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 16 Measure lengths and record data on a line plot.
• Lesson: 17 Represent fractions greater than 1 on a number line and identify fractions equivalent to whole numbers.
• Lesson: 18 Compare fractions with like units by using a number line.
• Lesson: 21 Compare various fractions by representing them on number lines.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Community

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and PE

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

I hope you all had a relaxing and wonderful Spring Break.

Wednesday is a LATE start. We will see the students at 10:00 am. (This is the only late start in April!)

CMAS assessment will be each morning from 8:10-10:10 April 5-12 and April 15. We will begin as close to 8:10 as we can. Please make sure your student has had a good night’s sleep and a healthy breakfast. Also, please try to make appointments outside of these times, if you can. If your student is late, they will be held in the commons until we finish assessing at 10:10. They will have to make up the missed session at another time of the day. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 4/1/24 School resumes
• 4/3/24 Late Start Wednesday
• 4/5/24 Fitness Friday
• 4/8-12/24 CMAS
• 4/15/24 CMAS
• 4/25/24 Night of Excellence
• 4/26/24 No school- Staff work day

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 7: Communities Then and Now. The essential question is What is a community?

• Reader: Communities Then and Now: All kinds of Communities
• Writing: Historical Fiction
• Word Study: Homophones
• Grammar:  Possessive Nouns
• Comprehension: Apply various strategies and fluency to understand text, make connections, information from text features, author’s point of view, compare and contrast

SPELLING: Homophones (This test will be Friday, April 5)

beat	beet	wood	would	tail	tale
do	bored	board	ate	eight

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 12 Represent fractions from 0 to 1 on a number line.
• Lesson: 14 Recognize that equivalent fractions share the same location on a number line.
• Lesson: 15 Identify fractions on a ruler as numbers on a number line.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Community

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Music?

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

I hope you all had a wonderful mini-vacation with the snow. I enjoyed sharing the good work your child is doing at the conference.

The book fair will still be open through Tuesday after school.

This coming week is Read Across Manitou. See this link for special days.

Wednesday is a LATE start. We will see the students at 10:00 am.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 3/11-3/19 Book Fair
• 3/18-3/22 Read Across Manitou
• 3/19/24 Class and Spring Picture Day
• 3/20/24 Late start Wednesday
• 3/25-29/24 Spring Break

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 7: Communities Then and Now. The essential question is What is a community?

• Reader: Communities Then and Now: My St. Augustine Journal and A New Life in Vermont
• Writing: Historical Fiction
• Word Study: Suffixes -er and -or
• Grammar:  Verb Tenses
• Comprehension: Apply various strategies and fluency to understand text, make connections, explain how characters’ actions contribute to events.

SPELLING: -er and -or suffixes (This test will be Friday, March 22)

actors	inventor	painters	soldiers	visitor	emperor
narrator	players	together	character	janitor	neighbor

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 9 Compare unit fractions by reasoning about their size concretely.
• Lesson: 10/11 Compare non-unit fractions less than 1 with the same numerator by using tape diagrams.
• Lesson: 12 Represent fractions from 0 to 1 on a number line.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Community

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and TEAMS?

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

If you have not signed up for a conference yet, please use this link. We will be spending much of Wednesday and Thursday morning getting ready for conferences, so please bring your student with you to the conference.

Wednesday is a REGULAR start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

Reminder that students are released at NOON on Thursday!

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 3/11-3/15 Book Fair
• 3/13/24 Regular start Wednesday
• 3/14/24 Early Release at Noon
• 3/14/24 Family/ Teacher Conferences PM
• 3/15/24 Family/Teacher Conferences (no school)
• 3/18-3/22 Read Across Manitou
• 3/19/24 Class and Spring Picture Day
• 3/20/24 Late start Wednesday
• 3/25-29/24 Spring Break

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 6: Making Decisions. The essential question is What helps us solve problems?

• Reader: Making Decisions: The Big Game
• Poem: Choices
• Writing: Opinion response
• Word Study: /ou/ sound and spellings
• Grammar:  Written vs. spoked English
• Comprehension:  make connections, recount key details, distinguish reader’s point of view from that of a character summarize and synthesize information, determine central message/theme, compare/contrast

SPELLING: /ou/ spelling (This test will be Tuesday, March 12)

about	around	flower	mouth	sound	announce
crowd	found	shower	allowance	however	powerful

 

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 8 Build non-unit fractions less than 1 from unit fractions concretely.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and TEAMS?

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

It was good to see some of you at the Movie Night! It was great fun!

If you have not signed up for a conference yet, please use this link.

Wednesday is a REGULAR start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

Please pay close attention to important dates.

We are working on skip-counting by 6, 7, 8, and 9. There are great videos on youtube to help your student practice. There are many songs but  here are some songs.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 3/6/24 Regular start Wednesday
• 3/8/24 No school, Staff work day
• 3/11-3/15 Book Fair
• 3/14/24 Early Release at Noon
• 3/14/24 Family/ Teacher Conferences (no school)
• 3/15/24 Family/Teacher Conferences (no school)
• 3/18-3/22 Read Across Manitou
• 3/20/24 Late start Wednesday
• 3/25-29/24 Spring Break

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 6: Making Decisions. The essential question is What helps us solve problems?

• Reader: Making Decisions: Rapping Magicians and The Big Game
• Writing: Opinion response
• Word Study: /ou/ sound and spellings
• Grammar:  Written vs. spoked English
• Comprehension:  make connections, recount key details, distinguish reader’s point of view from that of a character summarize and synthesize information, determine central message/theme, compare/contrast

SPELLING: /ou/ spelling (This test will be Tuesday, March 13)

about	around	flower	mouth	sound	announce
crowd	found	shower	allowance	however	powerful

 

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 5 Partition a whole into fractional parts and write fraction in fraction form.
• Lesson: 6 Build non-unit fractions less than 1 from unit fractions concretely.
• Lesson: 7 Identify and represent a whole as two partsL a unit fraction and non-unit fraction

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Music

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

Wednesday is a LATE start. We will see the students at 10:00 am.

Hope to see you at Movie Night. Here is a flyer about Movie Night.

We are working on skip-counting by 6, 7, 8, and 9. There are great videos on youtube to help your student practice. There are many songs but  here are some songs.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 2/28/24 Late start Wednesday
• 3/1/24 Fitness Friday
• 3/1/24 Movie night 4:30-7:30
• 3/6/24 Regular start Wednesday
• 3/8/24 No school, Staff work day
• 3/14/24 Early Release at Noon
• 3/14/24 Family/ Teacher Conferences (no school)
• 3/15/24 Family/Teacher Conferences (no school)
• 3/20/24 Late start Wednesday
• 3/25-29/24 Spring Break

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 6: Making Decisions. The essential question is What helps us solve problems?

• Reader: Making Decisions: Rapping Magicians
• Writing: Opinion response
• Word Study: /oo/ sound and spellings
• Grammar:  Adjectives and adverbs
• Comprehension:  make connections, recount key details, distinguish reader’s point of view from that of a character summarize and synthesize information, determine central message/theme, compare/contrast

SPELLING: /oo/ sounds and spelling (This test will be Tuesday, March 5)

cartoon	choose	flood	fruit	loop	loose
shampoo	soup	through	bookmarking	foolishly	tablespoon

MATH Module 4: Multiplication and Area

• Review and module assessment

MATH Module 5: Fractions as Numbers

• Lesson: 1 Partition a whole into equal parts and name the fractional unit.
• Lesson: 2 Partition different wholes into fractional units concretely.
• Lesson: 3 Partition a whole into fractional units by folding fraction strips

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Spanish

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

Wednesday is a REGULAR start. We will see the students at 8:00 am.

The students loved the Valentine Party. Thanks to all who provided food!

We are working on skip-counting by 6, 7, 8, and 9. There are great videos on youtube to help your student practice. There are many songs but  here are some songs.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 2/19/24 No school Presidents’ Day
• 2/21/24 Regular start Wednesday
• 2/28/ 14 Late start Wednesday
• 3/1/24 Fitness Friday
• 3/1/24 Movie night 4:30-7:30

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 6: Making Decisions. The essential question is What helps us solve problems?

• Reader: Making Decisions: Addison and Rocky
• Writing: Narrative response
• Word Study: Irregular Plurals,
• Grammar:  Irregular plurals
• Comprehension:  make connections, determine meanings of words, explain how characters’s actions influence, summarize and synthesize information, compare contrast

SPELLING: Irregular plurals (This test will be Friday, February 23)

feet	geese	leaves	lives	men	sheep
teeth	wolves	women	fungi	people	themselves

MATH Module 4: Multiplication and Area

• Lesson: 17 Apply area concepts to a real-world context.
• Lesson: 18 Find the area of shapes and represent area data on a line plot.
• Lesson: 19 Apply area concepts to complete a multi-part task.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and PE

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music

Wednesday is a LATE start. We will see the students at 10:00 am.

 The students had lots of fun during our Mardi Gras activities. Most said that presenting their floats to the King and Queen was the best part. And another thank you to all who provided ingredients for the gumbo. They loved going to other places in the school to collect them (courir de Mardi Gras)!

I sent home a pink sheet with the names of the students in the class. Please have your student fill in the valentines with their classmates’ names.  We will be making a bag to collect valentines on Feb. 14.

We are working on skip-counting by 6, 7, 8, and 9. There are great videos on youtube to help your student practice. There are many songs but  here are some songs.

Email is the best way to communicate with me.

Have a great week.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 2/14/24 Late start Wednesday<
• 2/14/24 Valentine’s Day party 2:10-2:45
• 2/19/24 No school Presidents’ Day
• 2/21/24 Regular start Wednesday
• 2/28/ 14 Late start Wednesday
• 3/1/24 Fitness Friday
• 3/1/24 Movie night 4:30-7:30

 

LANGUAGE ARTS ( Benchmark):

We are finishing up Advancement in Technology. Our Essential Question is What is the value of innovation?

• Reader: Advancements in Technology: Hear All About It
• Writing: Narrative journal entry, opinion writing
• Word Study: Inflectional endings -ed and -ing
• Grammar:  Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences
• Comprehension:  describe logical connections between parts of text, and compare/contrast texts, use information from illustrations,

SPELLING: Vowel-r syllable pattern (This test will be Monday, February 12)

blowing	feeling	missing	thinking	throwing	waited
carried	listened	pointed	recommended	scratching	studying

Our new unit starting Thursday will be Unit 6: Making Decisions. The essential question is What helps us solve problems?

• Reader: Making Decisions: Addison and Rocky
• Writing: Narrative response
• Word Study: Irregular Plurals
• Grammar:  Irregular plurals
• Comprehension:  make connections, determine meanings of words,

SPELLING: Irregular plurals (This test will be Friday, February 23)

feet	geese	leaves	lives	men	sheep
teeth	wolves	women	fungi	people	themselves

MATH Module 4: Multiplication and Area

• Lesson: 14 Reason to find the area of composite shapes by using grids (finish)
• Lesson: 15 Reason to find the area of composite shapes by using rectangles.
• Lesson: 16 Solving historical math problems involving area
• Lesson: 17 Apply area concepts to a real-world context.

SCIENCE:

• n/a

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• n/a

EXPLORATORIES:

Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish

Wednesday: Art and Spanish

Thursday: TEAMS
Friday: Music