I think we are still recovering in here from our zoo trip!  Lots of excitement and discussions in here.  🙂  I know that Mondays are the lightest day for visitors at the zoo and April is less crowded than May/June.  So I’m glad I was given a Monday in April for my bus date.

READING-Unit 9 The Amazing Ocean

WRITING-Descriptive Sentences

Their focus question will be…”If you had a pet fish, what would you and your pet fish do?”

Wednesday they will do their Prewrite.  By now they should be writing a sentence using descriptive or interesting words.  For example, “My fish and I would ride on our jet skis” or “My fish and I would eat ice cream on a park bench” or “My fish and I would ride on a Merry-Go-Round.”  They should be writing more than just “…go to the park”  or …”play.”  Do what at the park?  or Play what?  Where?

Thursday is Revise and Edit Day for their writing conference with me.

Friday is Publish Day.  They will write their final piece and share with the class.

SPELLING-“ig” chunk     big  wig  pig  wig  fish  has  look

I reminded them that big and dig start with different letters!  Make sure they write the correct letter.

MATH-Unit 8  We’ll work with Number Families.  What are some different ways to make 9?  Get out some spoons and give it a try.  2 + 7   6 + 3   0 + 9    7 + 2   What are some other ways to make 9?

SCIENCE-Fish Characteristics!  We’ll also talk about Living and Non-Living Things.

This week the students will also have their third Writing Prompt for the year.  They already know that it will be about Plants.  Remember, it’s a writing assessment so their writing will be what is graded.

Have a good week.

Mrs. Smith