Reminders:
- Field Trip permission slips are due Monday, April 29

 

Math: We will finish Chapter 11 this week, Customary Measurement. We will learn about displaying measurement data on a line plot and solve measurement problems. On Wednesday we will review all nine lessons from Chapter 11 and take the Chapter test on Thursday. On Friday we are going to jump ahead to Chapter 13 Perimeter and Area and learn how to measure the perimeter of objects. 
Objectives: 
- Students will display measurement data in a line plot. 
- Students will solve problems involving measurement. 
- Students will convert time. 
- Students will convert customary units of length, capacity, and weight. 

 

Social Studies: We are continuing our journey through the Western region this week by visiting various cities throughout the region. We will explore Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, San Jose and Las Vegas. The children will begin working in groups to create a visual representation of one of the cities we explored. 
Objectives:
- Identify reasons why the West has attracted people. 
- Apply map skills to locate important sites in the West. 
- Describe the physical and human features of the West  moving on from the Southwest and moving onto the Western region of the United States. 

 

Religion: This week we are going to continue learning more about the Ten Commandments. This week we will focus more on the seventh through tenth commandments and how they relate to each other. We will continue to focus on ways to be more like God and reflect on ways we can live the commandments. 
Objective: 
- Consider how Scripture and Tradition can deepen your understanding. 

 

LA/Reading: We are heading back into our MyView books this week and starting Unit 5, our last unit of the year. This unit will focus on Features and all five weeks will cover features of the Earth. The overall question for this unit is, why is it important to understand our planet? For our first week the students will. Focus on the features and processes of Earth. We will read an excerpt from Planet Earth by Christine Taylor Butler. We will focus on analyzing text features and making inferences while reading the story. Our language convention for this week is relative adverbs. 
Objectives:
- Make, connect, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structure. 
- Establish purpose of reading assigned and self-selected texts. 
- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding. 
- Analyze the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes. 
- Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.

 

Spelling: Our spelling words for this week focus on the Latin Roots gener, port, dur, and ject. The students will complete three word choice activities and one spelling worksheet to help them prepare for the test on Friday. 
Objectives:
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge. 
- Determine the meaning and use of words with roots.

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