May 18 - May 22

Fundations

This week we continue unit 16.  In this unit students will continue to work with vowel teams.  The focus this week is on the short o sound you hear in au and aw.

au as in August aw as in saw

The unit 15 test will be Friday, May 22.

Fishtank ELA

The theme for unit 5 is finding your power

In reading, students will read two books from the Zapato Power series.  As they did in previous units, the students will be challenged to think about how authors develop characters throughout a single text and how that understanding builds as they read more books in a series about the same characters.  While reading these books, students learn that:

• To understand what happens and why it happnes in a story, readers notice a character's motivation and relationships.

• Authors use descriptive language to help readers visualize and better understand what's happening in the story.

• Chapter titles give readers a clue about the key events in the upcoming chapter.

In writing, students will apply their learnings to:

Narrative Writing

• Brainstorm a focused narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

• Write a beginning with a strong hook.

• Write an ending that provides a sense of closure.

• Use temporal words to show time passing.

• Include details that show actions, thoughts, and feelings.

Poetry Writing

• Brainstorm a focused narratice with a beginning, middle, and end

i-Ready Math

The three major themes of unit 5 are:

• Knowing the number of sides and angles a shape has can help you identify the shape.

• You can use what you know about dividing a shape into equal parts to show halves, thirds, and fourths.

• An array is an arrangement of objects in equal rows and columns.

In lesson 30 students will use squares to partition rectangles.

In lesson 31 students will use arrays to add.  The lessons 30 and 31 combined quiz will be Wednesday, May 20.

The Unit 5 test will be Thursday, May 28.

Important Notes  

Field day is scheduled for Thursday, May 21.  Please make sure your child wears their light blue class shirt.

Friday, May 22 is an early dismissal day for students.  

Please make sure you are reviewing and initialing your child's HAB each evening.