Plays of Week #31

Reminders for this Week

***Turn in Permission Slips 

(Field Trip Wed.)

***Turn in Summer School Form 

(whether your child will be attending or not)

Monday 4/6 = Look for New Spelling Words

Tuesday 4/7 = Library Check-out

Wednesday 4/8 = Nature Center Field Trip

Friday 4/10 = Spelling Test

Other Important Dates

Team Meyer will be Testing Wed. and Thurs. April 15th and 16th then April 22nd and 23rd

No School April 17th

Big Event April 24th

Mansfield Field Trip = May 1st

Panther Pride Assembly = May 1st at 2:30 pm

Tentative LAST DAY = May 20th dismissal at 1:35 pm

Reading = This week we are looking at several strategies for looking back into the text and comprehending what we have read.  We will begin with "Finding Similarities and Differences" between story elements and main ideas throughout the passages.  At the end of the week, we will be reviewing the best techniques to "Predict" especially when answering questions and thinking deeper within the text.

Writing = We will continue working on our "Special Places" within our Informational/Explanatory writing pieces.  At the end of last week, we worked a lot on our graphic organizer and color coding our ideas in order to create the best five paragraph writing pieces.  This week, our focus will be on revising for better leads and dialogue as well as similes and sensory details.

Spelling = Please look for new spelling words coming home on Monday.  We will be testing on Friday.

Math = We have begun Chapter 13 where we explore both Area and Perimeter.  We will be using models to find the perimeter and area of squares and rectangles.  These are the definitions we will be thinking about = Perimeter: the distance around a shape or region. Area: the number of square units needed to cover the inside of a region or plane figure.  Please look at real-world objects at home and ask your 4th grader to outline the perimeter or point to the area of the object.  The more we can use the vocabulary the better.

Content = Science = On Friday, we talked about Arbor Day which takes place in late April.  We also took home our Red bud trees.  A huge thanks to the Conservation Department for the great trees!  This week we will be going on our field trip to the Nature Center for our Science Exploration.

Highlights of the Week...