We are in need of
1. GLUE STICKS! We are officially out and have a bunch of projects coming up. Any donations would be appreciated!
2. Plastic Grocery Bags - for some upcoming projects
MONDAY - We are wrapping up our Landform/Maps unit next week and we will be making salt dough landforms in class on Monday.
THURSDAY - We will be planting our bean plants that we have grown from seeds into the school garden!
FRIDAY - Earth Day - We will be pairing up with our 5th grade Reading Buddies to clean up our play ground!
Take a peek at the photos below from today...we worked with our Reading Buddies and they helped us complete a measurement activity with inches & centimeters.
Next Week:
Reading: Wonders Unit 6 Week 2
Weekly Concept: We Need Energy
Essential Question: How do we use energy?
Phonics Skill: CVCe Syllables
Spelling Words: state, replace, nine, ninety, side, sidewalk, face, outside, these, tadpole, letter, magnet, alone, beside, round
High Frequency Words (Sight Words): alone, beside, became, four, hello, large, notice, round, suppose, surprised
Vocabulary Words: electricity, energy, flows, haul, power, silent, solar, underground
Grammar: Articles; This, That, These & Those
Genre: Expository Text
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose
Math: This week, in math we will be continuing Unit 7 on Measurement; centimeters, inches, feet, yards and meters! We will also be reviewing 2D shapes and learning about 3D shapes.
Science/Social Studies: This week we are wrapping up our landforms, maps & globes. It was a quick intro, because we we will overlap all of these skills in our BIOME UNIT! We will be officially kicking off our 5 week long BIOMES Unit after April Vacation! We will be learning about a new biome each week! We will be introduced to each unit with videos and we will learn to write a research project based on our research in class. So stay tuned!!!