It was great to see some of you at the carnival on Friday night! What a fun event! On Friday, students brought in their finished space projects. I am very impressed with the creativity and hard work that each student put into their projects! We started to present them on Friday, and we will finish presentations next week. On Thursday, we did the Oreo science activity. We made the eight phases of the moon, and we will discuss them in greater detail next week. To those of you that were able to donate Oreos and/or frosting, thank you so much! The students LOVED twisting the Oreos apart and scraping the filling out to match a particular phase of the moon. They behaved perfectly during the activity which was impressive since there were cookies everywhere!
The Week Ahead
English: We will continue to practice the use of commas in a series. We will also learn how to appropriately use quotation marks. We are getting close to finishing this unit on capitalization and punctuation. I will send a note home when I have planned the date of the test. In writing, we will be learning to write fluent sentences.
Math: We will learn to multiply a one-digit number and a two-digit number using mental computation, identify right, obtuse, and acute angles, name triangles by angle size, measure line segments using millimeters, and multiply by 6. On Friday, we will have our multiplying by 9 test. Please make sure that your child is studying them every night.
Reading: My reading class will be reading an expository nonfiction book called, Visitors from Space. We will also discuss how to locate information in a nonfiction text, the consonant -le spelling pattern, how to use graphic aids, and words with Latin roots. Please go to Spellingcity.com to practice our spelling words. This is our last spelling list of the school year!
Science: We will continue space project presentations, we will learn about our moon in detail, and we will learn about comets, asteroids, and meteors.
Muffins with Mom
Please send in your RSVP for Muffins with Mom by Friday, May 4th.
Upcoming Field Trip
A note went home in Friday Folders for parents to sign up to go on our next field trip. There will be more information sent home soon.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at bcalcott@orionschools.us. Despite the icky weather, I hope everyone had a nice weekend!
