Parents and Students,

I hope that all of you have had plenty of opportunities to enjoy the beautiful weather!

Exhibition-
Students will meet their mentors tomorrow. Mentors will meet with students and work on refining their topics this week. Our Technology Teacher, Mrs. Anderson, has also been working with our class, and will continue to do so, on finding online resources. She comes into our class once a week and usually comes to our room on Tuesday mornings. We will also work with the librarian, Ms. Whitehouse, on writing a Bibliography and plagerism. I will present lessons this week on how to identify important information and how to take notes and put into own words.

Science- The Solar System will wrap up this week with a final test on Wednesday or Thursday.

Social Studies- Continuing with Exploration for a couple of weeks.

Reading- Students are catching up with eachother on novel reading and some have to read and others do not, depending on reading speed. We will continue to write in Reading Journals.

Spelling and Wordly Wise update-
While I understand that many of the spelling words are also vocabulary words for students, I also want to provide a challenge for spelling that follows a spelling pattern or rule. This is a balancing act and I know that vocabulary development is addressed through Wordly Wise. I am also trying to overlap them somewhat so that there is vocabulary and spelling exposure. This week's rule is the vowel-consonant-silent e rule.

Math-
We have covered 2 lessons on reading and interpreting data through looking at old Census data. The Main subject of Lesson 3,Geometry and measurment of angles, began today. We continue with daily/weekly review of place value and rounding.