Dear 4B Families,
Happy last week of May. I hope you all enjoyed the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Field Day was great fun on Friday. If you ordered a class picture, your child will have it in their filer.
Language Arts: The students will be finishing up their final entry in their Flat Stanley journal and sharing highlights of their journals with the class. We will also be typing out and putting together our personal quote project posters. Thank you for your assistance with the quotes.
Spelling: We will have a spelling test this Friday. The May 29th spelling words can be found here and were also passed out to the students last Thursday. The words on this test are all compound words.
Reading: We are continuing to read and discuss the story called Energy Island written by Allan Drummond. This story is about how a community uses renewable energy resources. The essential question focuses on how our energy resources have changed over the years. We will be discussing nonrenewable and renewable energy and understanding new vocabulary that connects with the story.
Math: On Tuesday, we review our chapter on decimals. Tuesday HW is also a test review. Thank you for going over the HW with your children so they are prepared. We will take the chapter test on Wednesday which will follow the same format as the Monday night HW. We will then move into work with measurement.
Social Studies:. The Washington State Feature Map test is Friday the 29th. All students have study sheets and an online option to prepare. There will be a word bank for this test. Our classwork this week is all about early Seattle History—including the Denny Party!
Science: The last two lessons we will cover for this unit are focused around gravitational energy and nonrenewable vs renewable energy. Our science unit also connects with the story Energy Island we are listening to and discussing in reading class. Students will be participating in discussions around the content, videos, and vocabulary that go along with the energy unit. The last unit test will be on June 4th.
Religion: Students finish up booklets and review the 8 Beatitudes. We will take an open-book test on the chapter June 2nd.