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April 22, 2016
SAVE THE DATE! ERES CARNIVAL: FRIDAY, MAY 20TH! YAY!!!!!
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Monday, April 25, 2016 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Remember to get a good night's sleep beforehand and eat a good breakfast!
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April's Precept...
Wonders
- It expresses feelings and ideas.
- It is often organized into lines and stanzas.
- It may use rhyme and rhythm.
- It uses figurative language, such as similes and metaphors.
- It uses descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses.
In spelling, our words all have soft c's and soft g's. Remember to check out and play Spelling City at home! This week's unit is 4.4
On Monday, we are going to begin discussing our research papers. Each student will pick, research, and write a paper about a plant from South America.
Envisions Math
We are continuing to work on fractions in Topic 10. If you are able, please have your child review the practice pages that were sent home. Also, please remember to continue practicing math facts at home with your child. Some kids are struggling with one or two facts and haven't been able to "climb" the next mountain. Randomly practice these facts with your child. This can be as simple as asking them in the car, "7 x 8?", or even writing the facts on post it notes and posting on the door so they have to tell you the answer before you leave the house. Thanks for your support!
Mystery Science
This week we learned about plant domestication, or how thousands of years ago we chose plants from the wild, such as tiny apples, and by carefully selecting seeds generation after generation, we’ve made them sweeter and bigger. We solved the mystery, "Why are some apples red, and some green?"
You can support this week’s learning by including your child on a trip to the grocery store’s produce section! Ask them to look for different varieties of one type of fruit. Consider asking them to find some new they’d like to try, such as a variety of apple or pear they’ve never tasted.
Next week's mystery, "How could you make the biggest fruit in the world?"