Animal Report instructions were sent home on April 30th.  They are due May 11th. They are to be written as a book with a Table of Contents, Glossary and Index.  The children actually got the booklet to write their reports in and they worked all week on a rough draft.

There Pre Test on double digit addition and subtraction went home on Monday (We took this test 2 months ago and after studying all the strategies we are getting close to taking the test.  We will be taking the test in 1 week.

No more summaries for homework and we have finished our sight words.

We are working on our animal reports this week and finish up taking our DRA test.  This will be the last week that we will be doing summaries as homework and Take Home Reading.

Thursday is Library Day

Friday book orders are due. The class code is HCVHL

April 6th

Reading:  This week we have been working on speed and refining our summaries.
Math:  We learned to subtract using negative numbers and we used Jelly Beans and marshmellows to work on subtracting with regrouping.  We will be reviewing this after Spring Break.
Social Studies:  We made our puppet children for the Antartica.
Science:  We have been studying rocks.  We have been comparing the different types of rocks the children have brought in. We read 2 books on rocks that looked at they way rocks break up and ways we use rocks in our everyday life.  We also made a sandwich that showed how sedimentary rocks are formed.