Hi Parents,
As we near the end of the year, we are working on concluding several lessons and units. You may see a few more assessments happening over the next few weeks for this reason. I will be sending review pages home and vocabulary words to study over the next week.
Writing: We have been working on opinion writing and taking a stand on a public issue. One public issue we’ve discussed is wind farms in the Great Lakes. We are in the process of generating our writing piece. We have also been working on using a Core Democratic Value that will support our opinion.  Look for Core Democratic Value vocabulary cards to come home. These would be great to study as we will have an assessment coming up probably the week of May 7.
Reading:  We have been studying genres of text the last few weeks. We’ve discussed realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, biography, autobiography, informational, and mystery. As students choose books they are asked to identify the genre of the text.
Math:  In math, we are concluding our unit on area and perimeter. We will take next week to review and plan on our assessment on Thursday. Please check out the blog post explaining a perimeter example problem.
Social Studies:  We are finishing our History unit and have learned about the events of Michigan becoming a state. We will review for the assessment so look for that to come home. The History assessment will be next Tuesday.
Word Work: We have been working on spelling patterns and will do our sentence dictation test today.