Week of 4/15 - 4/19

April 18, 2024

Dear Parents,

Happy Fitness Week!  I hope you've had an opportunity to emphasize the importance of health and fitness with your child in some special ways at home.  The Fitness Stitches (our class name) have had lots of fun at school this week learning about healthy foods and fun ways to exercise.  Tomorrow is our walk.  Please make sure your child wears his/her Fitness Week shirt and dresses in as much blue as possible.

As a reminder, your child should be wrapping up the reading of his/her book by tomorrow.  Now the focus should be on designing the cereal box.  While I invite you to assist your child if needed, please make sure your child does the writing and a majority of the craft.  

Sincerely,

Mrs. McLoud

This Week's Agenda:

Language Arts 

Spelling Focus - Suffixes "-ly" and "-less"

Daily Silent Reading

Mountain Language

Read Aloud -  All the Money in the World, by Bill Brittain           

Class Book Creation- "Fortunately/Unfortunately" (Final Drafts Continued) 

Cursive Lower Case - Lower Case "o" and "c"

Writing Focus - Sailor to Captain Letters

Reading Focus - Practice Making Inferences; Finding Text-Evidence; Main Idea

Homophones - their, there, and they're

Math

Both Groups: Multiplication Tests

McLoud Group:

Placing Whole Number Fractions and Fractions Between Whole Numbers on the Number Line

Comparing Fractions and Whole Numbers on the Number Line by Reasoning About Their Distance From 0

Recognizing and Showing That Equivalent Fractions Have the Same Size, But Not Always the Same Shape

Zearn Lessons

Finalization of "Picture Pie" Art

Fishman Group:

Comparing Fractions and Whole Numbers on the Number Line by Reasoning About Their Distance From 0

Understanding Distance and Position on the Number Line as Strategies for Comparing Fractions

Recognizing and Showing That Equivalent Fractions Have the Same Size, Though Not Always the Same Shape

Recognizing and Showing That Equivalent Fractions Refer to the Same Point on the Number Line

Generating Simple Equivalent Fractions by Using Visual Fraction Models and the Number Line

Social Studies  

Natural Resources "Scavenger Hunt" Game (Group Activity)

"What is Technology?" (Partner/Trio Activity)

Introduction to Definition of "Culture"

Categories of the Chumash Culture

Art

Artist Focus - Keith Haring

Images in the Style of Keith Haring

Health

"Feelings Circle" (Friday)

Great Body Works - "Let's Eat!" Nutrition Lessons

Bill Nye - "Digestion" Video

Notes/Reminders/Info Dates

Signed "Rainbow Charts" Due Tomorrow

Multiplication Test 4/25

Field Trip Date 4/25

End of Module 5 Test (McLoud Group) 4/26

End of Module 5 Test (Fishman Group) 4/26

Project and Oral Presentation Due 5/1

Open House 5/2