Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I finished 3 of my 7 classes for the semester at Rio Salado. I am so excited to be able to spend more time relaxing at home.

The AZMerit writing test is taking place this Friday, 4/5. Please make sure your children get a good night’s sleep on Thursday night and eat a healthy breakfast on Friday morning. We want our students to feel good about the work they have worked so hard to prepare.

If you have not already, please send the permission slips back signed for the State Capitol field trip in May. We would like to get that squared away as soon as possible.

The book fair is next week! Check the weekly newsletter for more information.

We have so many exciting things happening this quarter! Keep checking the “Important Dates” section of the blog for these fun events.

Our week in learning

Students have learned all of the idioms in our curriculum! We may use this time to catch up on some that we missed.

Students will learn about the roots rumpo, pax, and specto. There will be a routine roots quiz over these next week.

Students will recite “Jabberwocky” on 4/3.

In Literature, we will read through chapter 5 in “Across Five Aprils”. Students should be mindful to keep up to date on their journal entries.

In Writing and Grammar, students will review informational text and practice language AZMerit questions. The AZMerit writing test will be on Friday, April 5. Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep and eats a healthy breakfast.

This week in science, we will continue our study of the muscles. We will have a special guest with us on Thursday who is an expert on the human body, and will be helping us understand the muscles and how they function. We will also be doing some hands on labs to understand the difference between voluntary and involuntary muscles.

This week in History, we will learn about the important role women played off the battlefield for both the Union and Confederacy. We will examine the Union’s growing advantage, including non-military problems that wrought the Confederacy, until Lee’s surrender to Grant in Virginia – the end of the American Civil War.

In math, we will start a very short, abridged unit on average and rate. We will also be working on some of the last AZMerit math packets of the year! ALL workbook homework assignments will be half of every type of problem. We will have Math Groups most weeks until the end of the quarter. Math groups will be on Wednesday, 8:00-9:15.