March 26, 2012

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, March 29th-11:45 Dismissal for conferences
March 29th, March 30th -5th Grade Musical "Broadway Bound"
Tuesday, April 3rd-Spring pictures

All report cards will be available to read on BC@Home this week.

Math
This week, we will continue a unit on geometry. Students got back their measurement tests last week.

Reading
This week, we will continue our ELA study. Last week, we practiced multiple choice and this week we will focus on listening as preparation for the New York State ELA test in April. Students should continue independently reading a book of their choice and writing reading response letters.

Writing
We just finished the historical fiction writing unit. Students created a historical fiction character from the Revolutionary War period and wrote letters as that character to pen pals in Mrs. Kourt's class. On Monday, we will get together with her class to reveal true identities and celebrate the end of the unit. It should be a lot of fun! Our next unit is ELA study. We will work on essay writing for the upcoming New York State ELA test in April.


Science/Social Studies
In science, we are finishing up the digestive system and will have a quiz sometime this week. In social studies, we finished the Revolutionary War and have started a unit on government.

Have a great week!