Jungle News to Use
April 6-10
An Elephant Always Remembers...
Information and a dress rehearsal permission slip for the Spring Musical (grades3-5) went home. Be on the lookout!
We are in charge of the mass on Wednesday. Please join us if you can!
We will have a Junior Achievement rep coming to our classrooms to teach JA starting this Friday. This is a fun and educational experiences for the kids.
The multiple choice portion of the ISTEP will be given April 27- May 7. We test on April 27, 29, 30, May 1, 6, 7. Please be to school on time those days and don't schedule ortho/dr appointments. Thanks!
This Week's Verse: Luke 24: 5-6 Why seek the living among the dead? He is not here but is risen.
Rehearse to Learn the Verse
Our Resurrection Gardens are coming home!
Happy Easter!
What's Happening?
Math: We are moving into measurement this week. Keep studying those multiplication and division facts at home!
English: Chapter 6 TEST Friday, DOL Quiz Friday
Reading: We will be working on a reader's theater script, Ranita and the Frog Princess, this week to work on our fluency. We will also be tackling a couple long reading passages to prepare for ISTEP. New lit circles will be assigned this week. Lit Circle session 1 will meet on Friday. We will also be doing a couple newspaper activities this week to celebrate Newspaper in Education Week! 4th Quarter AR deadline is May 13. Make sure you are working toward meeting your 4th quarter point goal! April genre bags are due Thursday, April 30.
Writer's Workshop: We are moving into poetry. We will be learning about different types of poems and writing a lot of poetry in the upcoming weeks.
Spelling/Word Study: TEST over suffixes -tion and -able will be FRIDAY.
Science: We will be working on our STEM Activity of engineering a frog on Monday, Tuesday. We will review in class for our test on Wednesday. We will TEST over animal adaptations on THURSDAY. The reading material included in the packet as well as the study notes should be used to prepare at home.
Indiana History: Our Hoosier ABC book has been sent off for publication. I will send home info on ordering if you are interested in buying a copy of the class book. We will wrap up Indiana during the Revolutionary War this week as well.
Religion: verse to be memorized by Thursday