I can't believe we are in our LAST unit for reading!  The next four weeks of Unit 8 will review some skills we have learned throughout the year.  This week we will focus on character feelings as well as reviewing reading strategies.  We will use our main story, "Apple Pie 4th of July".  Our phonics skill will be words with prefixes dis-, pre-, im-, in-, and suffixes -er, -or, -less, -ness.  We will also work on using prepositions. 

 

We will begin Chapter 17, Picture Graphs, for math.  Students will learn to read, analyze, and interpret picture graphs.  They will also learn to complete and make their own picture graphs.  The Math Home-School Connections Letter will come home tomorrow!  We will be reviewing addition and subtraction with regrouping.

 

We will be taking a look at fossils and how they are physical traces of living things that are preserved in rock.  We will learn how some fossils look similar to plants and animals that are alive today, while others are very different from anything alive today.  We also have a fun experiment to do this week involving fossils!

 

***Reminders***

Book Fair is going on this week!  We will preview this week and flyers came home last week!

 

Progress Reports go home this week!

 

Family Night this Friday!  Flyers came home last week!  I am really looking forward to this event!

 

Please make sure to send in field trip permission slips, emergency medical forms (back of permission slips), and money!

 

Have a wonderful week!