Reminders:
English Language Arts
- 4th Graders need to turn in their money and permission slips for the Michigan Science Center by Friday, May 15th. The trip will be on May 20th. Our class will need 2 chaperones.
- 4th Graders have one more MSTEP test to take on Monday, May 11th. Then 3rd graders will start MSTEP testing on Monday, May 18th.
- FYI: The students will be DRA testing with me on Wednesday, May 13th.
- Also, a slip went home asking for Field Day volunteers. Field Day will be on May 27th in the afternoon.
- And last, but not least, 100% of the class reached their target score for the IOWA testing! I had promised them a pizza party if they reached this goal, so I'm planning on pizza for lunch on Thursday, May 14th.
English Language Arts
- The students worked on making judgments from the evidence presented in a text.
- Both grade levels are also working on rough drafts for their nonfiction writings.
- 3rd and 4th graders have now both completed their Spring District Writing Assessments.
- We have extended our use of fractions into addition and subtraction. We have also begun working on the skill of decomposing fractions.
- We completed our unit on States of Matter and will soon begin our final science unit on the Earth and Me.