This Wednesday is our field trip to Holy Hill.  Students are asked to wear comfortable clothing especially shoes.  They should bring a bag lunch, and they may choose to bring money in order to purchase items at the gift shop.

On Friday, the students will watch the annual presentation of the Wax Museum.

On June 7, we will be heading to LaserTag Adventure World for the end of the year field trip.  Each student must have a waiver filled out on line.  Please see below the link:

LaserTag Adventure World Waiver

Mr. Bradford

Reading  
We are working on the novel, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.  This is a Newbery award winning novel.  Look for the book to come home for reading homework throughout the next two weeks.
Students are working on comprehension, context clues and literary elements of plot throughout the novel.  There are various themes throughout this book, racial prejudice, family, friendship, survival...we will discuss and work with them all.

Science
Nice presentations - on minerals and rocks in our lives.  We also look at the question of are these rocks important in our lives with the balance of mining them.

We will look at the weather.    Did you know that there have been over 300 tornados in the U.S. so far this year?

Social Studies

Next week there will be a test on Chapter 7 on Thursday. The children received their study guide last Wednesday. We will also be finishing up the ABC books. The due date is Friday, May 18. 

Math

This week we will review multiplication with decimals and rounding by applying these concepts when calculating the circumference of a circle.  In addition, we will calculate perimeter and area of various shapes.

Language Arts/Writing

We are sending the letters out this week.  We will start to touch on the use of pronouns next.

Religion
From Joan's Rome

Hi Mike,

What a FUN time I had the other day in your classroom! I enjoyed every minute and every question and power point presentation! Kudos to all of you!

I will do a blog about that morning when I get back to Rome and will post photos. I am wondering if you could send me some photos of the power point presentations that I could put on my blog....and maybe even of the ones we did not have time to do. My readers will LOVE this! 

Again, thanks a million for hosting me....tell your class I said CIAO and am in awe of their talent and intelligence and technical skill! Keep up the good work.

Tell them I got my PhD ....if they know what that is!.....from my Dad.....Passion...Hard work.....Dreams!

Blessings,

Joan

Finally, we are also trying to finish the series of books called "Island."  A group of boys and girls stranded on an island trying to work together to get off in the face of multiple adversities.

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

Reading
This week students began the novel, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.  This is a Newbery award winning novel.  Look for the book to come home for reading homework throughout the next two weeks.  They are working on comprehension, context clues and literary elements of plot throughout the novel.  There are various themes throughout this book, racial prejudice, family, friendship, survival...we will discuss and work with them all.

Students will also practice Author's Purpose this week.  One focus of author's purpose is to persuade, which we don't practice as often as the purpose of informational or entertainment writing.  We will read about a debate going back to the Titanic.  Whether to restore and conserve artifacts on the ocean floor or leave them rest in peace, which is Robert Ballard's argument.  After students take notes on both sides and watch a video regarding this, they will write their own persuasive paragraph based on their views and using facts from their readings and video.  

Science  

Nice presentations - on minerals and rocks in our lives.  We also look at the question of are these rocks important in our lives with the balance of mining them.

We will look at the weather.    Did you know that there have been over 300 tornados in the U.S. so far this year?

Social Studies

Next week there will be a test on Chapter 7 on Thursday. The children received their study guide last Wednesday. We will also be finishing the ABC books. The due date is Friday, May 18.

Math

This week we will review multiplication with decimals and rounding by applying these concepts when calculating the circumference of a circle.  In addition, we will calculate perimeter and area of various shapes.

Language Arts

Grammar:  We will complete the adjective and adverb unit and work on the review this week.  It will go home by Wednesday for the test Friday! 

Vocabulary:  Unit 15 Vocabulary book, test next Tuesday.

Writing:   Students are completing final drafts for both their Titanic Biographies and Narrative writing about their life.

Religion

Sessions 18-19  Anointing of the Sick and The Sacraments of Service