Week of February 21

We will be having a half-day next Friday, March 4th as it is the end of the second trimester. Report cards will be coming home, along with the most recent NWEA report for your student, in the month of March.

Our next Book Report is due on Friday, March 11th. 

Students should focus on identifying evidence of character traits and giving a detailed summary of the book. 

This is a reminder that your student needs to be charging their computer every night. We are having some students come to school with a dead or near-dead computer. Thank you!

We are having many students come to school without water bottles. The office only has so many water bottles and it is important that your student brings their own to school. 

 💙What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: Students have worked hard this month to learn about significant influential black leaders in honor of Black History Month. They have been using their research skills to learn about each person's most important achievements. Next month, we will be learning about significant women of history as it is Women's History Month. 

💛Writing: Students have continued working with their group for our next informational writing. They have determined the roles of each person in their group and will begin researching for their chapters next week. We will continue working on this group project throughout the next couple of weeks. 

💙Math: We have continued working through Unit 5, which is about Fractions. Students are learning about placing fractions and whole numbers on number lines.

💛Science: We have continued working through our Science Unit - Invisible Forces. Students participated in the second experiment dealing with friction and the invisible forces that occur when going down a slide. Ask your student about how they made their slide go faster!

💙Social Studies:  We are going to take a pause on Social Studies for the next couple of weeks as we transition to Science. 

💙WORD STUDY💛

No word study next week so we can have extra time for our group writing project. 

Week of February 14th

We hope that you enjoy the long weekend and spend some quality time with your student(s). School will be resuming on Tuesday, February 22nd.

Our Valentine's Day Party was a success! Thank you so much to everyone that helped make the parties so enjoyable for the students. You are appreciated!

Our next Book Report is due on Friday, February 25th. 

Students should focus on identifying evidence of character traits and giving a detailed summary of the book. 

This is a reminder that your student needs to be charging their computer every night. We are having some students come to school with a dead or near-dead computer. Thank you!

 💙What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: This month, in honor of Black History Month, students are researching information about significant influential black leaders. They are using Britannica Kids to research and fill out their informational forms about their most important achievements.  

💛Writing: We started a small group informational writing this week where students chose a topic and began researching their subtopics with their groups. We will continue this throughout the next couple of weeks. 

💙Math: We have continued working through Unit 5, which is about Fractions. Students are learning about unit fractions and how to place fractions on a number line.

💛Science: We have started our new Science Unit which is about Invisible Forces. Students engaged in their first experiment dealing with a push and pull force. Ask them about their Hopper Poppers! 

💙Social Studies:  We are going to take a pause on Social Studies for the next couple of weeks as we transition to Science. 

💙WORD STUDY💛

There will be no word study next week!

February 7th

                                              

Our Valentine's Day Party will be on Monday, February 14th from 12:30-1:30 PM in our classrooms. If you have a volunteer background check turned into the office and are signed up to help with an activity, you are welcome to join us for the party. 

For the party, students should bring Valentine's in for their classmates with one Valentine addressed for each classmate. We will send home a class list with each student. If you need Valentine's, please let us know as we will have extras available.

 Thank you, in advance, to EVERYONE helping to make this party special for our students.

Our next Book Report is due on Friday, February 25th. 

Students should focus on identifying evidence of character traits and giving a detailed summary of the book. 

This is a reminder that your student needs to be charging their computer every night. We are having some students come to school with a dead or near-dead computer. Thank you!

 💙What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: This month, in honor of Black History Month, students are researching information about significant influential black leaders. They are using Britannica Kids to research and fill out their informational forms about their most important achievements.  

💛Writing: We started a small group informational writing this week where students chose a topic and began researching their subtopics with their groups. We will continue this throughout the next couple of weeks. 

💙Math: This week, we took our Unit 4 Test about Multiplication and Division. We have started Unit 5, which is about Fractions. 

💛Science: We are starting a new Science Unit on Monday about Invisible Forces.

💙Social Studies:  We took our Chapter 3 Test about the discovery of Michigan this week. We are going to take a pause on Social Studies for the next couple of weeks as we transition to Science. 

💙WORD STUDY💛

Next week's word study will be focusing on identifying and sorting 

Long "U" Patterns in Accented Syllables. 

Spelling words: include, useful, fuel, musical

Week of January 31st

We hope that your child enjoyed the two snow days this week! We are looking forward to getting back to our normal schedule this coming week! 

Due to the Snow Days, Mrs. Knuth's class will be going ice skating on Friday, February 11th. If you have not registered your child's skate size, please do so.

Mrs. Knuth: Shoe Size

Miss Yoder's and Mr. Persenaire's class had a wonderful time skating on Friday! 

Our Valentine's Day Party will be on Monday, February 14th from 12:30-1:30 PM in our classrooms. If you have a volunteer background check turned into the office and are signed up to help with an activity, you are welcome to join us for the party. 

For the party, students should bring Valentine's in for their classmates with one Valentine addressed for each classmate. We will send home a class list with each student. If you need Valentine's, please let us know as we will have extras available.

 Thank you, in advance, to EVERYONE helping to make this party special for our students.

The next report will be due on Friday, February 11th. 

This is a great time to do some goal setting with your child and figure out how many pages or chapters your child will need to read to finish in time. To step it up a bit this time we would like students to work on adding evidence to show how their characters in the story demonstrated the character traits reported.

 💙What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: This week, we continue to meet in small group instruction to work on comprehension and asking/answering questions. Many groups are reading about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

💛Writing: Students are wrapping up their final drafts of their Informational Writings. We are going to start a small group informational writing for this upcoming week. This should be lots of fun for the kids to work together on a topic of choice!

💙Math: This week, we worked on dividing larger numbers into equal groups. We will wrap up Unit 4 with our Unit Test toward the end of the week and start Unit 5, which is about fractions. 

💛Science: We have paused Science while we begin our next Social Studies unit.

💙Social Studies:  We have completed Chapter 3 and will work on reviewing the chapter. Because of the snow days, we are delayed getting through the review. The test will be next Thursday. Please be aware that students will need to choose one person to write a paragraph about on the test. This paragraph should include a topic sentence and 4 - 5 details. Practicing at home is the best way to ensure that your student is ready to write the paragraph. 

💙WORD STUDY💛

We will continue with the same word study from last week as we were not able to finish the unit due to snow days. 

Spelling words: suppose, rowboat, stolen