April 27th- May 1st

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:

• 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 the structure of our poems and how to use meaningful line breaks.  We will also work on eliminating unnecessary information in order to make our poems more meaningful.

Reading: During reading this week, we are going to work on thinking within, beyond, and about our texts.  We will work on asking questions while we read that allow for deeper thinking.

Science/Word Study: This week we will continue science chapter 8: Matter.  We will focus on the properties of matter and the states they can state.  Our test on this chapter will be on Thursday the 30th.  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.  We will begin presentations on Monday!

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.  This week we will focus on finding the area of composite figures by decomposing the figures into smaller  rectangles.  The test on this chapter will be on Friday, May 1st.

Have a great week!