Apr.22- 26
REMINDERS
April 22: Earth Day
April 23: STAAR (no parent volunteers)
April 24: STAAR test ( no parent volunteers)
April 25: STAAR test (no parent volunteers)
April 25: Talent show (k-3)
April 26: Talent show (4-5)
May 1: Early Release Day
May 3: Field Day
Thursday: Library Day
READING and WRITING
This week we will continue reading poetry and working on our poetry books. The children have done a beautiful job writing different types of poems, free verse or rhyming such as color poem, acrostic poem, and shape poem. We have learned how to think of an idea to write a poem about, how to brainstorm describing words to describe it in a fresh and unusual way and how to use those describing words in short lines to write our poems. This week as we will continue reading poetry and become more familiar with the work of many beloved children poets such as Eve Merriam, Zoe White Ryder, and Shel Silverstein, we will add a few more poems to our poetry book and publish it.
MATH
In math we will review and revisit the Doubles facts including doubles plus one and doubles plus two, which is also called "Near Doubles". The use of Doubles strategy is an efficient strategy for solving addition problems with one addend that is one or two more than the other addend. For example 6 + 8 can be solved by thinking that this is really two more than double 6 or two more than 6 + 6 or 9 +8 is really one more than double 8.
SCIENCE
In sciences we will continue finishing our studies of different habitats and how the animals and plants interact with each other and help each other in that habitat. We will focus on concepts such as adaptations of living things, camouflaging and food chain in desert, arctic, rainforest, ocean, fresh water and forest habitat.
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