Updates and announcements
What beautiful weather we have!
It is apparent that the students are eager to get out and play in it! We will
be having our April Break over our 4 day weekend this week.
The virtue of the month is perseverance,
for good cause. As we get closer to the end of the year, students are starting
to get tired. Our virtue of the month helps remind us to always give our best
and to keep trying when it is not easy to do so. I expect to see great things
from our students as their elementary education comes to a close.
We have our last round of AZMerit
testing right after April Break. Please note that students have Monday, April
17th off of school and test on Tuesday, April 18th. Be sure
students are well rested and well fed that morning.
The human growth and
development lesson letter went home last week in your students’ folders and in
an email. If you have any questions, please reach out. The sheet only needs to
be returned if you DO NOT want your child to participate.
Please check out the wish list
for a few items that are needed.
Our week in learning
We will continue reading Across Five
Aprils in Literature.
In grammar and writing we will be
taking some time to review noun job as well as test taking strategies. Our noun
job quiz was moved to Wednesday of this week!
We will have a quiz over roots 84-85 on Wednesday and poetry recitation of, Barbara Frietchie will be on Wednesday as well.
This week we are finishing the skeletal and muscular systems, and
beginning the endocrine system. We scheduled a test on Tuesday, but it is now
moved to Thursday.
This week, students will learn about Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln,
Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown and the Election of 1860. The
50 states study guide is due 4/5. The test will be on Wednesday, 4/12. We will
continue to discuss slavery. This may be sensitive content for some students,
so please have a discussion at home if needed.
This week we will be covering graphing line plots and will do a
few short lessons covering volume. On Thursday, we will be working in groups to
review for AZMerit. There will be no math groups on Wednesday
