This Week At A Glance...

Welcome back from a wonderful spring break.  So many students described their activities and  adventures ranging from campouts, hot pots, mineral springs, spring cleaning, Disneyland, and Easter egg hunts.  How fun!  We are all glad to be back and are working hard to improve our fluency, writing, and math know-how!  We love learning!

This week in Reading Street our question of the week is:  "Why do we have symbols that represent freedom?"  Today we talked about what freedom means and we shared our background knowledge about the Flag, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and the Alamo. Did you know  that it took 18 years to design and construct the Statue of Liberty. The statue then was disassembled and shipped to the United States. Here, an enormous base was built for the statue. The statue was reassembled, and Liberty has welcomed newcomers to the harbor ever since.
The students decided freedom means the right to choose.  Aren't we all lucky and blessed to have freedom in our lives!

We will be finishing up our area and perimeter unit in math this week and look forward to an assessment on Wednesday afternoon.  Come stop by our hallway to check out our problem solving wall.  How well do you know area and perimeter?

We are still pushing forward with multiplication and division timed tests for the next 3 weeks.  We won't be able to do pass-offs everyday but we will do checks twice a week.  There's still time to scoop up that ice cream with a little practice every night.  Our multiplication ice cream party is scheduled for May 21 at 2:00 p.m.  We will be needing a few moms or dads to help out with serving, so if you are interested in helping, please let me know.  Many hands make light work- and it's a lot of fun!  Thanks for all your support!

We are also continuing on with our animal research projects, and will be doing so for the next 4 weeks.  Due to Sage testing, computers aren't readily available, so we want to make sure we have plenty of time to research, prewrite, then complete amazing work.  Right now there won't be a need to do any  research or writing at home.

Sage testing will be starting next week beginning April 28-30 for writing, May 12-13 for Language Arts, and May 19-20 for Math.  I will be including some end of the year dates in our section "Dates to Remember".  Hope this helps while you are planning appointments and vacations.  Have a great week- thanks for all you do to support your student and me!

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