What's Happening in Room 30.........

Important Announcements:

• MAP testing is right around the corner and our  MAP testing schedule is listed below.  Please make every effort to avoid scheduling Dr. appointments during our testing windows. 

                                 April 27th - afternoon

                                 April 28th - morning

                                 April 29th - morning

                                 May 2nd - afternoon

                                 May 3rd - morning

• Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences are this Thursday.  If we have a conference scheduled, I am looking forward to meeting with you!
• I am setting an ALEKS challenge for the students!  Those students who finish the 4th grade ALEKS pie by April 30th, will get to participate in a pizza party!  We already have 3 participants and several who are very close.

Word of the Week: staggered (recommended by Isabel)  The tired man staggered to the door when the doorbell rang.

Dates to Remember:  

Monday:    Chess Club
                     Mr. Stevens' Book Battle 
Thursday: Choir @ 8:00
Friday:       1/2 Day of School
                     Flyer Families
                                                            

What's Happening in Our Room.... 

Reading Workshop: 

• The students will learn about point of view this week.  The students will be able to identify 1st and 3rd person point of views and understand how a story can be changed when told from a different point of view.
• They will also be studying author's purpose.  The students will be presented with different texts and asked to identify the author's purpose: persuade, entertain or inform the audience.

Writer's Workshop:

• We will begin our Poetry Unit this week!  The students will study several different poems and identify how the author used figurative language and creative wording to express his/her thoughts through poetry.  This will prepare them to write a class anthology of poetry.

Math:

• We will begin learning about customary measurement this week.  As we work with measurement, we will review area and perimeter through hands-on measuring activities.

Science

• We will continue with our Matter Unit, and we will incorporate metric measurement activities as we study mass, volume and weight.