May 20-24

Just a little over 2 weeks to go!

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Notes for the week...

**  This week we will hold our APPRECIATION BREAKFAST for our cleaning, maintenance, bus, and security staff on Thursday, May 23.  Students will be contributing food, decorating, making small gifts, and serving breakfast to the wonderful people that serve us all year long! We will begin setting up at 8:00am and start serving food at 9:00am.

Click HERE to sign up for something to contribute.  We need every family's help to make this a special meal for such deserving, hard-working people!

** Also, this week we will have our SPRING CONCERT on Friday, May 24 at 10:15 a.m. where our students will showcase their advances in Music Class. We hope to see you all there! We will have an EARLY DISMISSAL following the concert which should end at 11:45 a.m.

** Our "Goodbye to Elementary" end-of-the-year party will be held at the swimming pool at Quinta Bella on Thursday, May 30.  We will ask each family to contribute to the cost of the pool, transportation, and food once we have crunched all the numbers, so please stay tuned to your email and whatsapp for more information to come!

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Reading, we will continue with our guided reading novel, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, and analyzing the characters, themes, and main events in the story.

In Language Arts, we will be studying the Greek and Latin roots -ful/-ous, phon, lum, sub, poly with a quiz on Friday. We will also begin composing letters to the fourth graders about what to expect in fifth grade next year!

Math

Last week we studied how to find the volume of rectangular prisms and cubes. This week we will practice finding the volume of triangular prisms and cylinders. Students, please double-check that you are up-to-date on your past math IXLs. This week's practices will help review a variety of topics we have covered over the course of the year.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL E.1
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL E.2

Wednesday: Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL W.2

Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL Y.1
Friday: Relax!!!

Science

This week we'll be creating a review guide to summarize everything we have learned in our Space unit, and then we will have a final test on Thursday.

Have a great week, and thank you for your support!
Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew