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- Community Building
- Daily Quote Reflections
- Team Building Games: Sparkle, Quiz Quiz Trade, Singing Rounds, etc.
- Holidays: Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You) & Cinco de Mayo
- Reading
- Unit 4: Historical Fiction Book Clubs
- Used primary documents to understand historical context of novels
- Answered reflection questions after completing first book
- Some groups have even started a 2nd book!
- Unit 4: Literary Essays
- 3rd Essay focuses on Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Strong final sentences in paragraph structure
- How to find quotes to use as evidence
- Assume your audience knows nothing
- Revising using teacher feedback
- Read Aloud
- New Book: The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
- Sequel to book read in 3rd grade last year (The One and Only Ivan)
- Social Studies
- All About the VI Unit
- History of Cacao
- Salt River
- Archeology Timeline
- BC vs. AD
- Igneri & Saladoid People
- villages & typical foods
- Math
- Starting the May Calendar and Collection
- Reflecting/rotating a triangle around an axis (4 quadrants)
- Water Evaporation Experiment
- Investigating Area and Perimeter
- Area: using ratio table model and division to find the missing side length of a rectangle
- Perimeter: finding the missing side length when provided one dimension and either the total perimeter or the area
- Factors and Multiplies Game
- Science/Health & Wellness
- Nutrition Unit Guest Speaker: Larissa Leffingwell, Physician's Assistant
- Paper Phone Activity
Announcements:
- Friday Lunch: Next week's menu: Beef, Broccoli, and White Rice! (Contact me if you want your child added or removed to the regular lunch list.) Thanks again for your delicious meals, Quiana!!
- Sunday, May 7th @8am: Grand Finale Junior Triathlon - Cramer's Park (Flyer attached to email.)
- Monday, May 8th: No School For Students (Cambridge Training for Teachers)
- Tuesday, May 9th: Early Dismissal at 12:30pm For Students (Cambridge Training for Teachers)
- Wednesday, May 31st: LS Spring Concert @ 9am in the Pavilion!
- Summer: Girls and Boys Soccer Clinic (See Flyer Below)
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