Good morning everyone. I hope everyone had a fantastic break! The week flew by. It is hard to believe that it is April already! We are getting right back into our schedule. Thursday at 6:00 we are having a meeting for anyone interested in helping take the Nowlin Garden back over, behind the school. We are going to start working on that as soon as the weather breaks so hopefully we can set up some dates for garden work and come up with a plan. Next week we start M-Step and NWEA testing again. Students should continue to practice their toughest subjects each night on Mobymax. The program locates their missing skills and reteaches them.

This week:

Spelling: We are looking at multisyllabic words that have a changed letter sound. Our words are authenticity, electricity, muscular, resignation, designate, reflection, capacity, associative, prism, and liter.

Math: We are finishing unit 8 this week which focuses on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions with mixed numbers.

Writing: We are starting a research project on animal adaptations. Students will be researching and writing a research paper. They will then create a Google Slide presentation and will present to the class with a group.

Science: We are starting to look at fossils, finding fossils and what fossils tell us about past events. Our unit test will be next week.

Reading: We are continuing in our reading groups and we will looking at the parts of a poem. We will be focusing on stanzas and understanding the meaning of figurative language.

Have a great week!