Friday, April 11, 2014

April 14- 18

Announcements:

The fundraising items for Yellowstone will be in on Monday! Please arrange to have them picked up after school.

Friday is a 1:00 release for Easter.

SAWS testing will be next week, April 22- 24.


Reading: This week in reading our main story will be 'Me and Uncle Romie'. We will be focusing on the author's purpose in writing stories (inform, entertain, persuade) to better understand what we are reading.

Grammar: This week we will be focusing on conjunctions, and identifying conjunctions in sentences as well as using them correctly in our own writing.

Spelling:

rocky
foolish
rainy
childhood
selfish
treatment
movement
neighborhood
childish
parenthood
crunchy
bumpy
payment
sleepy
shipment
assignment
livelihood
stylish
environment
guilty

Vocabulary:

cardboard
feast
fierce
flights
pitcher
ruined
stoops
treasure


Math: This week we will continue multiplying with larger numbers, and learning different strategies to multiply larger numbers. We will work on arrays, breaking numbers apart into more manageable problems, and traditional methods for multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers together.