We will be finishing poetry this week and then we will be doing some practicing for the Forward Exam which will start next week. Your child needs headphones for the exam. I will send a note home with your child if their headphones are broken or aren't working properly, but please ask your child if their headphones are working properly. Our first test will be on Tuesday, May 3 8:30-10:15. We will also test on Friday, May 6 8:30-9:30.
This weeks high frequency words are point, toward, five, himself. Please make sure your child is practicing their sorts and spelling their words.
In math this week, we will be pretesting Unit 7 on Monday, reviewing Unit 6 on Tuesday, and post testing Unit 6 on Wednesday. Thursday we will start Unit 7 so ask your child who their math teacher is on Thursday.
We are wrapping up our state reports and they will be due on Monday, May 2. We will continue to also work on our personal narratives.

Happy Spring! (Finally!)
I hope everyone had a chance to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather this past weekend.
We will have our spelling test on Thursday, April 21 this week. The high frequency words this week are against, top, turned, learn.
Tuesday will be a Friday schedule, because we don't have school on Friday. The teachers have a Professional Learning Day.
Tuesday is also Spring Picture Day so please send back the form so the photographer can set the background and the pose.
We are continuing with area and perimeter in math.
In literacy, we are moving into reading poetry this week.
In writing/social studies, we are continuing to do research on our state reports.

This week in literacy, we will be focusing on main idea and details.
In math, we are continuing to learn about the attributes of shapes. We will be moving into area and perimeter later this week and into next week.
The high frequency word this week are change, answer, room, sea.
For writing, we are working on personal narratives. I am excited to see how the students have improved with their writing skills when I compare their first personal narrative to this one. Then we will move into research about states.
Next week, we don't have school on Friday for Professional Learning Day.

I hope everyone had a nice break. Too bad the weather didn't start out like spring.
We are starting to serve breakfast at Spring Road. Letters were sent home before the break, but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
We are starting our new module for literacy called "Did You Know...". We will be learning about figurative language, the main idea, key ideas and details using a book about the human body (skeleton, heart, lungs, etc), poetry, and doing some research about the states.
We are also starting our new math unit on geometry. Ask your child who their math teacher is.
The high frequency words this week are: hear, example, heard, several.
We are wrapping up our fractured fairy tales this week and going back to personal narratives.
In social studies, we will be finishing our Tic-Tac-Toe projects and sharing some of the things they created.