Multiage News
April 7, 2013
Welcome back to our
last 10 weeks of the school year. I hope
everyone had a wonderful Spring Break.
We missed our 5th graders while they were at camp. Sounds like it was a great experience for all
of them. A special thank you to each of
the chaperones, who made arrangements to be with the kids. Many memories for all, I’m sure.
This Week
Students will bring
home 3rd quarter report cards later this week. Remember, the district is not giving the
traditional reading grade. Instead, you
will receive a separate, comprehensive written report on your child’s reading
progress. STAR Reading testing will take
place in two weeks and the MAP math and reading components in May.
READING This
week we will be continuing with SUMMARIZING and finding main ideas within text
we’re reading. For the next couple of
weeks we will be practicing and reporting our summaries of what we read during
IDR time. Also, with the start of the
new quarter, many of us will be changing our Reading Goals and small focus
groups. Also, new book clubs and 4th
quarter reading requirements will be introduced shortly.
WRITING We
begin our new unit, Functional Writing.
We will take a look at many examples of how-to’s, recipes, and
directions. This week we will be writing
directions and following written directions as we focus on “the author’s
audience” and “breaking down a big idea into steps”.
MATH We
begin geometry-finding, defining and identifying angles and shapes. This week we will be staying together, but
beginning next week grade levels will split to work on different objectives.
SCIENCE Energy
Transfer begins this week. This will be
a short unit and will include electricity, energy, magnetism and circuits. We will have a short quiz Friday. Study guides Thursday.
SS We
will not have formal ss this week so that we can focus on science.
FRIDAY---Before
break your child turned in his/her report on a country. We are going to have “Around the World” Day
on Friday. Students will need to bring a
few artifacts to represent his/her country.
The report and country “items” will be laid out on each student’s desk,
so that classmates may walk around and learn about countries of the world. Items could be pictures, coins, a flag (hand-drawn
or real), a sampling of food, etc. You will receive more information on
Monday.
Have a fabulous first
week back. Running Club will meet
Mondays and Fridays from here on out at 7:45 (hopefully the snow is done…). Club
will be cancelled if it’s raining—cross your fingers!!
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