Weekly Update for 4/27

I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable vacation! It's hard to believe that we are in the home-stretch of the school year.

There are a few exciting things happening this week:

• We will be walking to Crisafulli to hear the 5th Grade Chorus sing on Wednesday.
• The First Grade performance is on Friday and we will be attending in the morning with the rest of the school. 
• We also have an all-school assembly on Wednesday to discuss our last Care to Read Book. 

We will be working on the following during class time...

Reading - We will be reading non-fiction books this week. We will begin our reading groups by discussing our background knowledge on the text subject. Then after reading, we will discuss/write about what we learned from the book.

Math- This week's focus will be on place value. The students will model and write 3-and 4-digit numbers using base ten blocks and money. They will also make exchanges with base ten blocks and relate that change to money. We will also identify the value of each number up to the ten-thousands place. Lastly, the children will be introduced to the idea of parentheses in number models and will learn that they need to start with that part of the problem first.

Writing- The students are continuing to write their informational paragraphs answering their "I Wonder" questions from our library country research sessions. The kids are doing an amazing job and really seem to be enjoying this project!

The students will also be writing letters to their Third Grade Buddies to learn more about Crisafulli and third grade. Their buddies will write back to them to answer their questions and the children will have an opportunity to meet their buddy on Move-Up Day.

Social Studies- We are still in the continent of Africa and will be learning about the country of Nigeria this week.

Hope you have a great week!