Dear Family,
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
Reading & Writing - Poetry, Fiction, and Narratives
Phonics - Unit 11
Math - Unit 6
Science - Earth and Space Science
Sincerely,
Your child
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
- greetings in Swahili, Japanese, and Dutch
- the poems April by Maurice Sendak, Springtime, Bunny Hop, and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- celebrating Cougar Day with face paint and cheering on the teachers & 5th graders at the volleyball game
- learning about Tamil with Roshini’s mother
- visiting our 9th grade buddies at Sharon High School
- reading the book, Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel
- celebrating Earth Day by cleaning up our playground with Ms. Molinda
- earning Cougar Coupons to win a chance to become an Expo Expert, member of the Crayon Club, part of the Lego Hall of Fame, or have a special time to share with the class
- working to achieve Top Worker Bee
Reading & Writing - Poetry, Fiction, and Narratives
- reading poetry
- finding rhyming patterns
- writing acrostic poems and free verse poems
- rereading to smooth out our voices
- returning to reading fictional stories with characters
- becoming the boss of our reading by closely checking words as we read
- thinking: Does it make sense?, Does it sound right?, Does it look right?
- returning to narrative writing to write about our vacations
Phonics - Unit 11
- VCE syllables (vowel-consonant-silent e)
- short and long vowel sounds
- the two sounds long /u/ makes
- adding the suffix ‘s’ onto VCE words
- trick words: friend, other, another, none, nothing
Math - Unit 6
- sorting, counting, and recording data
- asking and answering questions about data
- comparing data using words such as "more, fewer, most, fewest"
- interpreting data sets with 2 or 3 categories
- solving compare story problems
- using comparison bars to represent data
- practicing addition and subtraction math facts
- beginning unit 7 by learning about parts of a clock and telling time to the hour
Science - Earth and Space Science
- drawing observations of the daytime sky from our playground
- creating a poster of our playground and mapping the Sun’s location throughout the day
- recording observations of the sky around the world using web cameras
- discussing how the Sun and Moon appear to rise in one part of the sky, move across the sky, and set
- wondering why the Sun and Moon seem to move (our Earth is rotating/spinning)
- how we are able to see the moon and why we can only see parts of the Moon at times
- discovering patterns of the moon in the night sky using online data
Sincerely,
Your child