Welcome Back – I hope everyone had a restful, enjoyable break with their families. I enjoyed spending time with family and friends including a lunch with the Montessori teachers including Ms. Nellie and Mrs. Hall. It was great to catch up with everyone. I look forward to seeing everyone again when school resumes on Monday. Remember this is a short week with no school on Friday.
Star of the Week – Will continue to be Amir L. Next week will be Hassan.
Academics
ELA – We will continue working in our Weather Magazine. For spelling we are on Unit 8 Week 2 Hard and Soft G. In our U8W2 Spelling and Grammar Pamphlet we will be doing simple, compound and complex sentences and pronoun and antecedent agreement. Spelling test will be on Thursday.
Math – For Math we will continue on Fractions. We will work on Lesson 17-18 then take the Topic D quiz. We will finish the week with lessons 21-23.
Science – We are continuing to work on weather and climate. We will take a quiz on Mystery 4, before beginning mystery 5.
Science Fair – We will begin learning about the Scientific Process in preparation for our Science Fair on May 12th. Each child will create a science experiment and follow the scientific process, they will display the results of their experiment at the science fair. More information will be coming this week. Here is a break down of when each part is due:
Monday, April 10 – Introduce Scientific Method Project
Friday, April 14 – Question Due
Wednesday, April 19 – Research Due
Friday April 28 – Experiment Completed
Friday, May 5 – Data Analysis Due
Friday May 12- Communicate Results (Science Fair)
4/4 – Spring Pictures – please remember to return your order forms.
4/5 Sky Dome Assembly
4/14 Popcorn Friday
No School – Friday – April 7th Good Friday
No School – Thurs and Fri- April 20-21 Eid
Congratulations to our top 5 people on the IXL leaderboard this month. I will add a new leader board for April soon. Everyone, please continue to practice the IXL skills needed to do better on your spring testing coming soon!
Joshua 1st place,
Ryan 2nd place
Lincoln 3rd place,
Amir Y 4th place
Bilal 5th place
Spring Testing – We will begin testing soon after break. Students should continue to try to complete as many skills as they can in IXL. There is also a MSTEP practice website, they can use this to practice the interface and see the types of questions they will see.
M-STEP – Testing window opens up on April 10th-May 5th – I don’t have the exact dates of testing yet. But I highly advise that students are not fasting while they are trying to complete their spring testing. This could greatly affect their ability to do well on the test.
NWEA testing window is May 28th – June 15th.
Teacher Cadet – Our teacher cadet Noor finished her time with us on Thursday before break and we will now have time with her twin sister Malak. The children enjoyed working Noor and I’m sure Malak will be equally delightful.
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