Week of 4/8 - 4/12

April 11, 2024

Dear Parents,

Thank you so much for assisting your child in finding a book for his/her book report.  Please help me remind your child to bring the book back and forth from home to school daily, in order to always have the books available to read.  The reading deadline is April 19th.  The project/presentation due date is May 1st.

As a reminder, next week is Fitness Week. Our class is assigned the color, "royal blue".  Shirts were sent home this past Monday.  Starting on Monday, April 15th,  please dress your child in as much royal blue as possible each day.  Many thanks to Mrs. Tunick and Mrs. Tesar for putting our banner together!  We are the "Fitness Stitches". ("Stitch" from the movie, "Lilo and Stitch".)

On the topic of Fitness Week, enclosed in today's Corrected Work Envelope are three sheets regarding this special week.  The purple "Pledge Card" sheet is due to class by 4/16.  The Rainbow Chart sheet needs to be worked on daily from Sunday through Thursday and turned in on Thursday, 4/18.  The third sheet is an optional contest entry.  

Next week, our class will be diving into the world/culture of the early Native Americans.  As a supplement to this upcoming social studies unit, we will soon be taking a field trip to Leonis Adobe to learn more about the Chumash lifestyle.  Enclosed in this week's envelope is the paperwork for this trip. Please read it carefully and turn in the form and donation by the requested due date.

Sincerely,

Mrs. McLoud

This Week's Agenda:

Language Arts 

Spelling Focus - Suffixes "-able" and "-ful"

Daily Silent Reading

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

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

Cursive Lower Case - Lower Case "q" 

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

Math

Both Groups: Multiplication Tests

McLoud Group:

Mid-Module 5 Test

Placing Any Fractions on a Number Line with Endpoints 0 and 1

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

Measurement and Data IAB Assessment

Completion of "Picture Pie" Fraction Art

Zearn Lessons

Fishman Group:

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

Practicing Placing Various Fractions on the Number Line

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 

Measurement and Data IAB Assessment

Social Studies - Geography and the Way We Live

Explorers and the Search For Spices

Explorers and Navigation

Journal Entries of Coronado

Open Book Explorer Test

Art

"Stitch" Drawings

Compass Rose Scrapbook Art

Health

"Feelings Circle" (Friday)

Notes/Reminders/Info Dates

Purple "Pledge" sheet Due 4/16

"Rainbow Chart" Due 4/18

Multiplication Test 4/18

Field Trip Slip/Donation Due 4/18

Field Trip Date 4/25

Report Book Reading Deadline 4/19

Project and Oral Presentation Due 5/1

Open House 5/2