Nightly Reading

March 27-31

Spring Break

April 3

1st Day Back from Spring Break

April 12

Early Release 11 am

April 18

Grade 5 Exhibition

Star of the Week

Lina Mutawea

Please have your child read

15 minutes nightly to improve
their fluency and
understanding. To help
understanding, please ask
them Who is in the story,
What are they doing, Why are
they doing it and What does
this story make you think of?
Asking these questions
nightly will greatly improve
your childs comprehension
skills. Thank you!

Each week we will celebrate a student

in the classroom for who they are.
This has nothing to do with behavior,
we are just celebrating the fact that
they are important to our classroom
community.

Dear Families,
Thanks to all of those that made it to Family Math Night. We really did have
a great time doing math as a school with our families. We have started the
new unit How We Organize Ourselves. We will be having a field trip on April 4
to Engineering for Kids. Please check your childs bag for the permission slip
and fill out and send 3 KD for the trip by next Thursday.

The library has started a reading competition! Students are asked to

read for 20 minutes a day and then have an adult sign a reading log.
The reading log has the details of the competition. Here are pictures:

Identify the main idea of a specific text

Identify the causes and the effects of things in the world

Ex: People had a hard time seeing at night so Thomas Edison
invented the light bulb.
Introduce text features (titles, subtitles, captions, etc.)
Ask who, what, when, where, how, and why questions while reading
a story (Suggested questions on the blog under Helpful Questions
for Reading tab)

Literacy

Ways to help at home: Please have your child to read an

informative non-fiction book about their interest (soccer,

space, football, animals, etc.) and try to identify the cause
and effect in the book.

Math

Continue arrays and repeated addition

3+3+3+3=12
4+4+4=12

Continue to work with different addition and subtraction

strategies

Ways to help at home: Please ask your child why we use arrays

to help us count. Have your child investigate to find arrays at

home or while you are out and have them explain why the array
is used.

Unit

Central Idea: Innovations change society and the

environment.
This unit we will be inquiring into issues that lead to
innovations, how innovations lead to change, what makes one
innovation better than another, and the consequences of
innovations to society.

Ways to help at home: Please help your child to start thinking

about how they can improve something in your house.