Week 32!

Happy Monday!  We are looking forward to expanding the truth, beauty and goodness of all things this week. We are particularly excited about fine arts and French night on Wednesday. We hope to see you there!

Announcements

My Father’s Dragon: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon on Monday, April 16^th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

Academics

Math: This week in math we will begin learning all about clocks and how to tell time! Students will practice telling time on the hour and at half past the hour. Students will also work to sequence events according to time and will be able to recognize what events take place at certain times throughout the day (i.e. morning or night). 

 Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from Little House on the Prairie and On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. 

Grammar:  This week we will review nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs and we can use them and identify them within sentences. 

Spalding: 

Monday: heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member

Tuesday: case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die

Wednesday: changing, change, few, pleasant, please, picture, pitcher, pitch, money

*Due to Fine Arts and French Night on Wednesday, 4/11, Spalding homework for this night will be entirely optional. We will leave time for ample review of Wednesday's words in class before our test on Friday. 

Literature: We will finish our folktales around the world unit by reading “The Knee High Man” and taking a quiz on Wednesday.  We will finish the week by reading a selection from Winnie the Pooh on Friday

Science: This week students will describe the movement of Earth around the sun, and the moon around Earth and list and describe objects in our solar system.

History: We will finish our unit on the American Revolution by learning about American symbols and our nation’s Capital.  We will take a unit test on Friday.  A review sheet will be sent home on Monday.