Down Third Street
Mrs. Newman's Classroom Newsletter
ELA
This week in ELA, we are focusing on Unit 5 Vocabulary. The packets were sent home yesterday and are due on Friday. As always, I strongly suggest the kids visit www.vocabularyworkshop.com to practice the words for the week. If they take the online practice test, it will help them tremendously.
Our grammar skill for the week is conjunctions. We will complete activities involving conjunctions all week long during Core Extension.
We are reading the chapter book, Sarah, Plain and Tall, during Reading this week. We will focus on summarizing using the Somebody Wanted But So Then strategy. Ask you kiddos about this strategy and see if they remember it this week.
Math
In Math this week, we will finish up Unit 4 on area and perimeter. A study guide was sent home yesterday and is due back on Thursday. We will take our test Thursday afternoon.
Theme
This week for theme we are in the STEAM lab with Mrs. K learning more about weather and climate. We have learned the difference between weather and climate and are focusing on 3 types of severe weather: hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.
Go Pantry Donations
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to donate items to Go Pantry. Please send in your donations by tomorrow if you haven't already so we can get the boxes for the families put together. I know the families in our school district will be very appreciative of all your kind donations.