Monday, April 12, 2010

Weekly Gazette (April 12th-April 16th)

What's My Child Learning This Week?

Reading-We continue reading The Ugly Vegetables. We focus on the skills of questioning and sequencing important events.

Math-We begin a unit on probability- the chance that an event is likely, unlikely, certain, or impossible to happen.

Science-We are working on the unit: Simple Machines/Force and Motion. This week, students will learn six simple machines and their characteristics.

Writing-Students will begin content writing integrating the information from the science unit Simple Machines. We are learning capital cursive letters!

Word Wall- The words this week have prefixes: unhappy, rewrite, misbehave, unkind, disagree, bicycle


Tests/Quizzes

*Reading assessment quiz on sequencing Thursday, April 15th. Students will have to sequence events from the story The Ugly Vegetables.

*Math quiz on problem solving Wednesday, April 14th.

*Vocabulary quiz on Force/Push/Pull Friday, April 16th. Study guide will be sent home tomorrow.

*Word Wall quiz Friday.

*Writing assessment Tuesday, April 13th. The purpose of this assessment is to monitor/view students' individual writing progress so far this year.

Important Reminders

*THERE IS NO SCHOOL NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 19TH in honor of Dia de las Americas.

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