Monday, May 14, 2012

May 14, 2012

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day weekend!! All of you moms deserve it:)Your children had such lovely things to say about all of you when they were writing their poems and creating wordles.


Upcoming Events:
May 14th Spring Concert
May 15th School Budget Vote at BCHS/Elementary school snack vote for students (also at BCHS)!!
May 18th Jeff Bennett Presentation on Immigration
May 22nd Erie Canal Presentation
May 24th 4th Grade Science Test-Part 1
May25th and May 28th No School

Reading/Writing
In reading, we started a new Read Aloud called Granny Torelli's Soup. Students should continue reading independently and writing reading letters. In writing, we are editing and publishing poems this week We will have a poetry celebration the week before Memorial Day. I will keep you posted on a day and time. I am tentatively planning for May 24th at 9:45 but I will confirm soon. We will start a memoir unit later this week.

Math
This week, we will start the Hands On Equations unit. It is a set of hands on lessons using algebra. It is a really fun unit!

Science
We will continue reviewing for the 4th Grade Science test.

Social Studies
We will start a unit on Immigration this week. Jeff Bennett will be here on Friday to share a presentation on immigration.

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