April 20th-24th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Reminder, this Wednesday is an early release day!
• Monday will begin another week of Aleks homework, all students need to complete is 15 minutes a week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will continue our poetry unit.  We will focus on our surroundings as well as listening to song lyrics to inspire new poems.

Reading: During reading this week, we are going to continue close reading. Close reading is a reading comprehension strategy in which you analyze a text over multiple days in order to gain a deeper understand of the text.  This week we will focus on close reading a non-fiction text.

Social Studies/Word Study: Last week we began Social Studies Chapter 10: Economics.  Along with our normal lessons, we have begun an economic project in replace of word study for the next few weeks.  With this project, students have been working in groups to create a good or service and an advertisement along with that good or service that they will present to the class.  Our test on chapter 10 will be this Tuesday!

Math:  This week in math, we will review chapter 13: Perimeter and Area.  We briefly took a look at this chapter before the MAP test but we are going to go back to it in order to take a deeper look at each lesson.  The test on this chapter will be on Friday, May 1st.

Have a great week!