* Thank you all for the notes, flowers, and thoughtfulness throughout last week. You made me feel truly appreciated!
* Thank you also to everyone who made a donation to our Y-Me team. Our Ivy Hill Eagle team raised over $1,000 in honor of all those who have fought and/or survived breast cancer. It was wonderful morning downtown for the race. We couldn't have asked for a better day!
* This week is a review week for Treasures, which means that there will be no new vocabulary, strategies, or spelling words given for this week. We will spend our time reviewing the strategies we have learned throughout the past 5 weeks such as: summarizing, making judgments, fact/opinion, literary elements, and author's purpose. Our spelling test will require the kids to read through sentences and determine which word(s) are spelling incorrectly. In grammar, we will review everything we have learned so far about adjectives! The kids will take a test over Unit 5 of Treasures on Friday.
* In writing, the kids are finishing up their plan for the shape of their story. This week the kids will plan out their rising actions, put their character into the rising actions, and then think about what the climax/turning point will be in their stories. We will also review the rules of properly using and punctuating dialogue. At the end of the week, the kids will begin to plan out their short stories!
* In science we continue to work on matter. Last week the kids did some experimenting with materials to come up with properties of solids, liquids, and gases. This week the kids will work with different ways of measuring mass and volume. We will work with beakers, graduated cylinders, calibrated cups, bath scales, and smaller scales. The big ideas we will be working with are: a solid object does not gain or lose volume, even when its shape is changed; the volume of a collection of solids consists of both solids and air; and in order to determine a volume of a solid, you need to determine the volume of air between the solids.
* We begin Unit 9 in math. A parent letter explaining this unit came home with your child on Friday. This week we will work on converting "easy" fractions to decimals and percents; using a calculator to convert fractions to decimals; using a calculator to rename fractions as percents, and making conversions among fractions, decimals, and percents. We will try to get in 2 mad minutes tests this week. Keep up the great work practicing at home!
* I think that covers everything for now. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please let me know! Have a great week!
