Newsletter Week of April 30

Note from the Teacher:

      It is hard to believe we have a little less than four weeks of school left. We will continue to focus on the academics along will finishing up our last novel reading of the year, Johnny Tremain.

     Also, Young Author’s Night was terrific! The kids did a wonderful job sharing their poetry books!
Area of Focus: 

Math: Topic 15 Solving and Writing Equations and Inequalities *test Wednesday
Topic 16 Ratios and Percents
Topic 17 Equations & Graphs
Reading: Weekly Concept: Now We Know             
 Essential Question:  How can scientfic knowledge change over time?

Skills: Ask and Answer Questions, Cause and Effect, Greek Roots 

Genre: Expostory Text

Language Arts: Adjectives that Compare

Spelling: Suffixes -less and -ness
Social Studies: USA Weekly # 17- 19
Science:  Earth's Changing Surface Chapter 9 *test Wednesday

Upcoming Events:
May
18th - Bookbuddies
23th - Last day of classes

A special thank you to all the parents
who drove and supported  us on our       
trip the Tryon Palace!