Week of March 22nd-26th

Literacy

Read Aloud:
We will finish reading Plantzilla, focus on parts of a letter and letter punctuation
We will also read Cinder Edna, by Ellen Jackson, focus on quotation marks and using context clues

Shared Reading:
IAW Charts- Plural Rules and Suffixes
We will be reading the two articles from TFK magazine assigned for homework this Monday to practice identifying the main idea.

Interactive Writing:
Suffix Chart- We will list common suffixes: -ful, -less,-er, -ly, and -ish. We will discuss and write their meanings and write various words that are written using the suffixes.

Independent Writing:
Continue Writing the final draft of the essay: My Favorite Rainforest Animal

Science Project: Students will finish working on the projects and display this week in class.

Oral Presentations:
Students will be presenting about their Favorite Rainforest Animal. We are hoping we can finish all oral presentations this week!

Students will also participate in Centers, Guided Reading, Independent Reading , and Book Clubs.

MATH:
We have been working lots on the Rules of Divisability. This was also sent home on a sheet to help students review at home. We reviewed it again today and students will be tested tomorrow. To review with them at home, do this 2 ways: by writing a number for them, and asking them to go down the list saying if that given number is divisable by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, or 10 (7 and 8 will not be test) and as well as telling THEM to draw the numbers: ex. "write a 4 digit number that is divisable by 3." or "write a 6 digit number that is divisable by 2."

Wednesday we will continue our new unit of division, looking at 'Exploring Division Patterns' and 'Estimating Quotients'. These two lessons will be quized Friday.

Timed Test: This week students will be tested on 4 as a divisor.

SCIENCE:
Monday (today) we attended a presentation on the Scientific Method. This is in preparation for the Science fair. ALL students will be required to work on a Science Fair project, using the scientific method. Students will be working on their experiments by themselves or in partners, and ALL work will be completed IN CLASS, including the display board. This week students will be choosing partners and experiments. After Semana Santa, students will begin bringing materials and starting their Scientific Experiment. Display boards may be brought in after Semana Santa

This week we are finishing our Rainforest Unit. Tuesday (tomorrow) is a quiz on the animal groups of the rainforest. This was an interactive editing lesson as a class, and then students were given the handout to complete the last groups on their own using interactive editing and finding key points. A great way to review this lesson would be to pull random facts from their page in their Science notebooks and ask which group that fact belongs to... example: which group of animals has hair? Which group has scales all over their body? etc.

Wednesday we will be finishing Lesson 5 on the food chain, predators, and prey. Thursday we will review and Friday will be the quiz.

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:
This Friday will be early dismissal at 11:15am. Please take the time to sign up for a conference for this week. Ms. Leary's list is posted outside of the classroom and will take place Friday. Ms. Willett's sign-up is in the office. Please e-mail Ms. Willett (swillett@amschool.org) to set up a meeting time for any other day this week as well (instead of Friday).