5-26-17
If you would like to register your child for the Portage District Library summer reading program, click on the link below.
Our all school picnic is next Thursday, June 1st. Please come join us if you can. I need to know if your child needs to order a sack lunch for that day ASAP so the cafeteria can be prepared.
We received our 2nd shipment of caterpillars today and all is right in the world again. Hopefully we can put the caterpillar massacre of 2017 behind us. My biggest concern now is time. I'm afraid we will not have enough school days to observe the entire life cycle. It will be cutting it close. If anything, I may have the kids bring a clear container or jar in on the last day of school and send everyone home with their chrysalis.
We wrapped up Module 7 this week and the final assessment on measurement is in everyone's homework folder. Module 8 is our last of the year. We have around 16 lessons to cover on Time, Shapes, and Fractions and about 12 days to do it. We may be doubling up on a few lessons to make sure we get through everything.
Language Arts
We finished up our last story for Unit 6 and took our Unit 6 Reading Assessment this week. Those will be the last scores that will be recorded for reading this year. We will go back cover a few stories that we skipped but their won't be any recorded grades.
This was the final week for our What a Surprise! unit. We wrapped it up by thinking about this: “How is life now the same and different from life long ago?” We read an informational text about Benjamin Franklin, who made many helpful new discoveries long ago. In addition to Now & Ben, we will read A Model Citizen, where we learned of the many other helpful things Ben Franklin did for his country.
Target Vocabulary: accomplishments, inventions, result, designed, achieve, composed, remarkable, amounts
Phonics Skills: Reading longer words; final stable syllable -le
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a dictionary
Comprehension Skill: Compare and contrast—tell how two things are alike or not
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize— picture what is happening as you read
