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April 27, 2015

Reminders
Tuesday, April 28th: Jets DOUGHraiser
Friday-Sunday, May 1st-3rd: Saline Art Show at Saline High School
Tuesday, May 5th: Cinco de Mayo - click here to donate!
Thursday, May 7th: World Language Celebration
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Friday, May 15th: Animal Breakfast (8:30-9:00am) - click here to donate!
! 22nd: Detroit Zoo Field Trip
Friday, May
Wednesday, May 27th: Field Day

SAVE THE DATE:

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Wednesday, June 3rd: End of Year Picnic
welcome)

Points of Gratitude
THANK YOU to Violet Apone and Jo Mitchell for helping in our classroom
last week.

Notes
There was a mistake on the Animal Breakfast invitation, costumes for the
Animal Breakfast need to be into school by Wednesday, May 13th. We
want to make sure all students have their costumes before our breakfast
on Friday, May 15th.

Click here to volunteer in our classroom in April!

Please turn in Detroit Zoo Field Trip form and $7 cash ASAP

Curriculum Corner
Language Arts
Reading:
This week students will be doing another close reading of a
non-fiction text. We will read the same text multiple times to be able to
dig deeper with our comprehension. Students focus on vocabulary
on the cold (first) read, comprehension questions on the warm (second) read, and higher level thinking questions on the hot (third) read.

Writing
Students are continuing to write their animal report. This week we will
work on parenting style of our animal, as well as a glossary and table
of contents.

Word Study
We have completed Word Study for the year. The remainder of the
year will be focusing on reviewing and using the word wall (high
frequency) words when writing. We will also use Word Study time in
class to learn about nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Enjoy the extra time
not studying for spelling tests to be outside with your family!

Math
We are starting our final unit in math! Unit 9 focuses on math story
problems and adding/subtracting with two digit numbers.

Science/Social Studies
Our Painted Lady larvae arrived last week! We will begin our final
science unit that examines animal life cycles and characteristics of
various animal groups. Each child has their own larvae at their desk to
study throughout the various life cycles, it is extremely exciting!

We will also start our final social studies unit on mapping. This week
we will learn about directions (N, S, E, & W) and will end this unit by
creating and mapping out a city!

Week At A Peek
MONDAY 4/27

- Special: Spanish
- Math Lesson 9.1 part 1
- NO WORD STUDY WORDS THIS WEEK

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- Special: PE/Music
- Math Lesson 9.1 part 2

- Special: Media
- Math Lesson 9.2

- Special: Art
- Math Lesson 9.3

- Special: Music/PE
- NO Math Lesson

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TUESDAY 4/28

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WEDNESDAY 4/29

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THURSDAY 4/30

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FRIDAY 4/31