Hello families!
I hope you all had a nice week either away or home. My family and I spent some time here and in Washington, D.C. We had a great time! Looks like the weather is getting good just in time for us to return to school!
Thank you for making our Wax Museum such a success! I was extremely proud of each student's hard work and dedication to the unit. They certainly learned a lot and did a fabulous job!
What a busy week we have ahead!
This Tuesday, we begin our NYS ELA exam. We will begin first thing in the morning. Please be sure your child has had a good night's sleep, a healthy breakfast, and is in school on time. This way we can begin as soon as everyone is present. The exam will be 70 minutes long for 3 consecutive mornings, with an additional 10 minutes or so to go over directions, procedures, etc. After the exam concludes, we will have some down time, either playing games or watching a movie and having our snack. If the weather is nice, we will spend some time outside, but it would most likely be in the afternoon after all exams and lunches have concluded.
Even though we have an exam this week, we still have a lot of learning to do!!! We will continue our geometry study. We will learn how to classify polygons by numbers of sides, types of sides, and types of angles. We will learn the different types of quadrilaterals and triangles.
We will continue learning about ancient Egypt. This week our focus will be on the Egyptian religion and we will understand the different gods and goddesses they believed in.
We will begin looking at the genre of realistic fiction in reading. In our guided reading groups we will focus on higher level thinking skills, understanding implied meanings and increasing our vocabulary.
In writing workshop, we will begin looking at opinion writing. We will learn how to state a claim and then argue our claim with facts to support our claims.
Your child will be bringing home a review spelling list for this week. They will have up to 20 words for their list this week. We will take our spelling test on Friday this week, since we have our ELA exam Thursday.
I do have an ambitious plan for this week considering we have an exam that will take up the most of each morning...Please don't be surprised if next week's blog post says "Please read last week's post." Thank you for your continued support.
