Good Evening Haigh families! Sorry to bring this post to you so late. My family and I got home from vacation late last night and today was extra busy with a treat of springtime weather. I hope everyone had a great spring break that made you feel rested, rejuvenated, and ready to take on April, May, and June 🙂
Reminders for the week:
- Wednesday: Spring conferences (Only if you were contacted)
- Sign and return permission slips by Friday; field trip to the River Raising Battlefield is next Wednesday 🙂
- Help support the girl scouts by purchasing a butterfly sucker for $0.50 each. Look for the blue order form in your child’s owl folder.
- Sign and return March is Reading Month reading logs to be entered into PTA bike raffle.
This week we will be focusing in poetry in reading since April is National Poetry month. We will read and “notice” a variety of poems and discuss the unique qualities that poems offer. We will analyze different poems to determine their meaning, mood, tone, and overall theme. Students will also have time to “free write” poems of their choice using a poem book that lists and details how to write several unique poems. They may also be able enter their poem to our new 4th grade news friends to be read over the announcements 🙂
In reading we will also continue to work on our M-Step articles and review test taking strategies. We are about 3 weeks away from M-Step so the focus is on reading, writing, and math for the next few weeks.
In writing today we took some time to write a “snapshot” narrative about one great thing they did over spring break. This allowed us to reflect on our vacations, review qualities of a narrative, and to share with our classmates all of the FUN we had over break. The rest of this week students will work on a second M-Step writing prompt. However, this time students will read the passage, plan, and write about the prompt without support from me. Next, we will review our writing and improve it to meet the M-Step guidelines. This flipped approach is to allow students to notice in what areas they need to work on in order to prepare for the state test.
In math we will continue to work on our fraction unit. We are learning about equivalent fractions this week. Students are learning how to spot them on a number line and with pictorial representations.
Academic Words:
- Stanza- a group of sentences that is separated by a space (like a paragraph, but in a poem).
- Verses- each line in a poem.
- Root word- the base word or main word without a prefix or suffix on it.
- Skim- to scan the text for important information and key words to help answer a question.
Welcome back 🙂
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