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May and June Newsletter

Dear parents,                            

During the Months of May and June we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the months.

Newsletter

Language Arts/Spelling Lists

Week of

Week of May 2, 2016

Wing- going- sleeping-bring-

Those, use, fast, pull, found,      

Week of May 9, 2016

Suffixes- ness- able

Goodness, likable, teachable

Because, best, upon, these, many

Week of May 16, 2016 irregular past tense

Verbs

Hid, went, wrote, spoke, sat

If,  long, about, six, never, seven

Week of May 23, 2016  compound words

Football, bedroom, downstairs, something, playground

Math

Continue working on unit 9

And start unit 10

1.     Capacity

2.    Weight

3.   Pre- test unit  9 Thursday, May 5, 2016

Unit 10

1.    Decimal Notation for pennies and Dimes

2.   Money amount with a calculator

3.    Estimating finding exact costs

4.   Making change

5.   Place value notations

6.   Grouping with parentheses

7.  Unit 10 Pretest

Science- Life science

Plants

Review plants basic needs

Review plants parts

Review plants parts jobs

Continue working on the plants activity

1.Label parts of a plant

2.Write about the jobs of each part

3. Life cycle of a plant

 

 

Social Studies-Unit 6

How can a Citizen affect a Community?

1– What is a good citizen?

 

2- How do people work together to solve problems in a community?

3- Exploring public issue in a community

4- Taking part in a community project

 

Thank you,

Mrs. Hachem

 

 

 

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March Newsletter

Dear parents,

For the Month of March and April we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts/Spelling Lists

Week of 3/7/16

Prefix – dis

Disapprove, disagree, disable, dismiss

Want, too, pretty, four, saw

 

Strategy for this week is-visualize

Week of 3/14/16

Suffixes er, est   taller

Faster, slower, bigger, smaller

Eat, who, new, must, black

 

Strategy for this week is summarize

3/21/16

Suffixes –ly  -ful

Slowly, nicely, quickly, friendly, helpful

Our, ate, under, of, some

 

Strategy for this week is cause and effect

 

 

Math

Math pre-test unit 6

Pre-test goes home to review

 

Unit 6 post-test on Wednesday, March 9, 2016

 

Start unit 7

1. pattern counting

2. adding three or more 1 digit and multi digit numbers

3. practice repeated doubling and halving

4. exploring weights in pounds

5. readiness for division and area

6. measure length to the nearest inch and centimeter

7. middle value (median)

8. line plot, bar graph  for  a set of data

   

Social Studies

 

Social Studies

Unit 4 How do people work in a community?

Lessons:

 

 

·         Scarcity and choices

·         Opportunity cost

·         Using natural to produce goods

·         And services

 

Vocabulary Cards will go home every day for review.

 

Science-Life  Science

 

1.    Identify the need of plants.

2.    The life cycle of familiar flowering plants including the following stages : seed, plant, and describe fruit

3.    Identify characteristics of plants (leaf shape, flower type, color).

Thank you,

Mrs. Hachem

 

 

 

 

 

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Edible Landforms Students’ Pictures

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February Newsletter

Dear parents,

For the Month of February we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts/Spelling Lists

Week of 2/1/16

-ur

Cure, pure, burn, churn, sure

Week of 2/8/16

Ever, never, better, her, per

 

Week of 2/16/16

prefix re

Reread, remix, relist, retell, refresh

 

2/22/16

Prefix-un-

Unable, unjust, unbend, undo

 

2/29/16

Prefix pre

Pretest, precut, preschool

 

 

 

Math

Continue working on unit 5  pre –test

·         Pre-test goes home to review and to be prepared for the post test

·                                 Unit 5 post-test will be on Thursday 2/4/16

Unit 6

 

 

 

1. Addition of three or more numbers

2. Subtraction two digits

3. Multiplication and division

4. Multiple of equal groups

   

Social Studies

Unit 4 How do people work in a community?

Lessons:

 

 

·         Scarcity and choices

·         Opportunity cost

·         Using natural to produce goods

·         And services

·         Business in our community

 

 

 

Vocabulary cards go home every day to review what we learned in the class.

 

 

Science-Earth Science

Landforms.

1.Describe the major landforms of the surface of the earth

Mountains- plains- valleys, hills

 

2. Identify and describe natural causes of change in the Earth’s surface(erosion, glaciers, volcanoes, landslides, and

earthquakes)

 

3. How does wind and water change the land?

 

4. Weathering and erosion in my neighborhood

Weathering means the breaking down of rocks and soils.

 

Watch videos on earthquakes and volcanoes to see why landforms change shape and size.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you,

Mrs. Hachem

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January Newsletter

Dear parents,   

During the Month of January we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts

Spelling Lists

 

 

Week of 1-5-15/ Daily spelling homework/Friday spelling Test

Back- duck- pick- dock- deck

 

Week of 1-12-15

car- farm- tart- dark- park

 

Week  of 1-19-15

For- chore- form- storm- corn

 

Week of 1-26-15

Dirt- bird- stir- birth- skirt

 

On January 20 and 22 will do the NWEA test on Math and Reading

Math

 

Unit 4 review

Use different strategies to solve addition problems

2. Exploring temperature

Money and shapes

3. Exploring

length Area and attributes and 3-D shapes

Pre-test 1/8/15  Unit 4 pre-test goes home for review

Post-test 1/11/15 Unit 4

Unit 5

1. Exploring

length Area and attributes and 3-D shapes

2. Quiz on 3-Dimensional shapes

3. parallel lines, vertices, edges and faces

 

   

Social Studies Week of 1/5/15

 

Unit 3 How do citizens live together?

 

 

Vocabulary review will be sent home.

1. Local government (complete the local Government Tree activity)

2. Core democratic values/watch a video Citizen role

4- Pledge of allegiance

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary Cards goes home every day for to review as a preparation for the social studies common assessment.

 

Science

Unit 2 water test

 

Unit 3 Landforms

1.      Introduction (watch a video)

2.      Characteristics of different land forms (mountains, hills, hills, valleys)

3.      Prepare for the landform project

4.      Letter will go home about the landforms project

5.      Prepare a box to use for the project

6.      Edible landforms activity in the classroom

 

Thank you.

Mrs.Hachem

 

 

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December Newsletter

Dear parents,  

During the Month of December we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts

 

Spelling Lists

Week of 12-7-15/ Daily spelling homework

 

Chick- shop-thin- when-think

Friday—– Spelling Test

 

Week of 12-15-14

with- dish- each- stitch- itch

Friday Spelling Test

 

Math

 

Unit 3 pre test

·         Using coins to buy things Numeration

·         Telling time

·         Unit 3 test

Unit 4

1. parts- and Total Number stories

2. Exploring temperature

Money and shapes

 

   

Social Studies

Unit 3 How do citizens live together?

1- Government

2- Local government

3- Core democratic values

4- Pledge of allegiance

 

 

Science

Unit 2 water

Review the following:

Water sources

Uses of water

Water in liquid state

Thank you.

Mrs.Hachem

 

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November Newsletter

 

Dear parents,

For the Month of November we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts

Spelling Lists

 

Week of 11-2-15/ Daily spelling homework

Every Friday we have spelling test

Toe- rode- note- woke- hoe

 

Week of 11-9-15

Long o:oa

boat-float-cloak-oat-toad

 

Week of 11-16-15

Contraction

Didn’t- they’ve- she’s- we’ll- wouldn’t

 

Week of 11-23-15 irregular plurals

foot -feet – goose- geese- mouse- mice

Daily Homework

Monday:

put the spelling list in alphabetical order

Tuesday:

Use each word in a complete sentence.

Wednesday: Use all the words to write a short story.

 

 

 

Math

 

Week of 11-2-15

Unit 2 Pre-test

Please review the pre-test with

 your child and sign it.

 11-6-15 Unit 2 Test

 

Week of 11-9-15 start

Unit 3  we will the following

 topics :

1. place value

 Quiz

 

Week of 11-16-15

1. Using coins to buy things

2. Telling Time

Quiz

 

Week of 11-23-15

Pre-Test   Unit 3 if we have time we will go over the pre test and make the corrections.

 

 

     

Social Studies

Week of 11-2-15

Unit 2 introduction and watch a video.

 

Unit 2 Where is my community & what is it like?

1- Maps

Exploring maps/Vocabulary

Map – map key- symbol-  location

direction words- north – south- east- west

Classroom map

Assessment

 

Week of 11-9-15

2- Transportation

Different ways to move people and goods

Helps connect communities together

 

Week of 11-16-15

3- Landforms

Mountains- hills- plains- valley

 

 

 

 

Science

Unit 2 water

Week of 11-2-15

Video

1.    Identify water sources

(wells, springs, lakes, rivers, oceans)

 

 

2.Identify household uses of water

(drinking, cleaning,

food preparation)

 

3.    Clever Clean Up/ classwork

experiment

 

Settling Method is used to clean

up water .

Filtering Method is used to clean up water.

 

Week of 11-9-15

Water solid or liquid

Water unit review

Unit test

 

Thank you.

Mrs.Hachem

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November Newsletter

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October Newsletter

 

 

For the Month of October we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts

Spelling Lists      Friday spelling test

Week of 10/ 5/15 Daily spelling homework

Bed, get, den, let, hen, led

 

Week of 10/12/15 Daily spelling homework

Deep, need, feet, sleep, tree

 

Week of   10/19/15   Daily spelling homework

Ate, make, made, play, may, gray

 

Week of 10/26/15 Daily Spelling homework

Fly, try, funny, buddy, my

 

Math

Unit 2 Addition number

Stories

1.    Double facts

2.    Turn around facts

3.    Fact Families

4.   Exploring weight and scales, odd and even pattern

5.    What is my rule routine

6.   Counting strategies for subtraction

 

Social Studies   

 

Continue working on unit one

Lesson 3 Why do people live in communities? Vocabulary government

 

Lesson 4 comparing three different communities suburban, rural, and urban

 

Lesson 5 My local community

Review vocabulary for the whole unit.

 

 

Science

 

Unit 1 Mixture- different kinds of beans

2. Solutions- mixture and solution can be separated with a sieve, a filter, or with evaporation

3. use different methods to separate mixture

Thank you.

Mrs.Hachem

 

 

 

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