Week 36!

Announcements

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Calendar

Wednesday, May 9^th: Astronomy Night @ 7 pm

Wednesday, May 22^nd- May 24^th: Half Days

Friday, May 24^th: Last day of school

Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute) 

Practice phonograms: ay, ai, th, ee, ou, ough, eigh, ng, gn, kn

Spalding: We will have 30 words this week and the Spelling Test will be on Friday!

Monday: inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus, woman, women, young and WB pg. 167-169

Tuesday: fair, fare, dollar, evening, plan, broke, feel, sure, sugar, least and wb pg. 170-172

Wednesday: sorry, press, God, god, teacher, November, subject, April, history, study and wb. Pg. 173-75

Thursday: Review all words and wb. pg. 176-178

Academics

Spalding: We will have 30 words this week and the Spelling Test will be on Friday!

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. 

Grammar: This week we will be using all parts of speech learned so far this year to practice writing sentences on our own. Students will write complete sentences with a capital letter, punctuation mark, noun, and verb. Students will try to include as much detail as possible using adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, contractions, and transition words.

Literature: This week we will find out if Elmer Elevator is able to save the dragon and escape Wild Island as we finish this wonderful book!

Math: We will learn the process to subtraction double digit subtraction.  As your child completes their homework, please encourage them to be mindful to subtraction the ones and then the tens. Please ensure that your child practices their math facts for at least a minute each night to enhance math fact fluency. Thank you!

History: We will explore various United States symbols this week including the Liberty Bell, the White House and the Bald Eagle.

Science: This week in science we will be finishing up the last planet on our journey, Neptune. We will also be learning about astronauts and what life is like in outer space. Next week we well have our astronomy review and assessment.