English- 

Grammar:

This week, we will continue drafting our apex predator research essays. 

The final copy of this essay will be taken for a test grade.

Spelling-

There will be a spelling quiz on Friday. Spelling packets will be due Friday for a daily grade.

flavor layer vapor humor author dollar silver labor

doctor solar proper tractor major calendar motor nectar

Review Words:

glory

symbol

Challenge Words:

mirror

error

Reading -

We are continuing our novel study over Bud, Not Buddy. We will be completing different assignments to review over our reading skills that relate to the novel. This upcoming week, we will be working on a Bud, Not Buddy project.

Students are continuing to work on endurance during independent reading time. Students will "stop & jot" their thoughts about their books as well as specific prompts from the teacher. 

⭐ We are accepting lightly used chapter books for the classroom library! 

If you have any books that your child has already read just sitting around the house, we will gladly take them! 

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Novel Studies:

• Bud, Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis 

          ISBN 10: 0440413281           ISBN 13: 9780440413288

**Please purchase the paperback version of each book. It is challenging to have class discussions with different page numbers. These books will belong to the student. Click on the Amazon links above. Please do NOT have your student read ahead.**

Cursive-

The students will be practicing letters in class everyday.  

Math- Topic 14 Lines, Angles, and Shapes Chapter 14 Test on Tuesday May 5th, a review will be going home Monday for extra credit.

Measuring with a Protractor

Triangles: Isosceles, Equilateral, Scalene 

Quadrilaterials

Lines of Symmetry 

Math Practice: Please study these songs to practice your math facts. These are the songs we use in class.

Skip Counting Videos (Click Here)

• Free multiplication Games (Click here)

• Prodigygame.com (Click here)

Bible

We are finishing our last unit, Paul's arrest and trial. There will be no Test or Bible Memory. 

Deep Roots Student Login - Students can use this link and their Deep Roots logins to access the Unit we are studying or to access content for makeup work. Students have log in information in their planners. 

Science

We are finishing up our last project in science. This is our last unit. We will be doing experiments when done with the project. Examples of experiments growing crystals, making glow in the dark bouncing balls, making oobleck. I would like to do a solar experiment that we could not do in January because of the cold weather. I promised the kids we would do it when it gets warm. This involve cooking hot dogs in pringle cans that the classes have collected.

Science

Texas History

On Friday we finished our last unit in History! We will be studying the presidents, and states and capitals.

Texas Studies Weekly Login - Students have log in information in their planners for Texas Studies Weekly to review at anytime or to complete make up work if they do not have their newspapers with them.