Plays of Week #35

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

- We will be doing end of the year testing for Reading, Writing, and Math this week so please make sure your child is in attendance and well rested.

Monday 5/4 = Spelling Test (make-up from last week) and new words being sent home

**All Library books due as soon as possible**

Wednesday 5/6 = Nurse's Day - Thank you to Nurse Sandra!

Thursday 5/7 = Flat Stanley visits Portland and Miss Guthrie's Last Day with Team Meyer

Friday 5/8 = Spelling Test

Reading = This week we will be wrapping up Inferences and Unit 3.  We will begin our final unit of strategy focuses which includes looking at Cause and Effects, Fact or Opinion, and an Author's Point of View and Purpose.  On Wednesday, we will begin with Cause and Effect while analyzing the story entitled Beach Safety together as a class.

Writing= Last week, we participated in the "Great Mail Race" because we received a letter from a previous teammate of Team Meyer who now lives in Tennessee - Levi.  We wrote back to him as well as wrote to a state/elementary of our own choice (check out the pictures below).  We are hoping we get some letters back before the end of the year to learn more about the states/schools we wrote to.  Team Meyer did an excellent job writing their letters and addressing their envelopes to the schools.  This week we will begin our last writing unit - Opinion Writing as well as begin our end of the year writing prompt.

Spelling = Last week's spelling test had to be postponed because we had an assembly when we returned from our Field Trip on Friday.  We will plan on testing tomorrow.  Then we will also be getting new words tomorrow and testing on Friday (like normal).  It is hard to believe we only have this week and next week left for Spelling.  

Math= This week, we will be reviewing and enhance our Geometry skills and vocabulary.  We will work on our Geometry journals and be working on our "Dream Houses".  Towards the end of the week, we will be testing over the Geometry concepts for this quarter.  I am excited for Team Meyer to hear about our "Dream House" project as we work with area and perimeter.  It is something I think they will really enjoy and get enthusiastic about while doing math calculations!

Content = We will be reflecting on our Field Trip from last week!  Please check out the pictures below and ask your child about it.  Team Meyer and Team Eaton did a great job while we were there and viewed/learned a lot of unique things in the process.

Highlights of the Week...