Math Focus: Meanings of Division 

Overview: Students will be tested over division on Thursday, April 9th. A study guide was sent home on Thursday and can be completed for extra credit on their test! 

Division Facts Focus: Students will create fact family relationships for multiplication and division.

Math at Home: On average, 10 minutes of math practice at home each night is encouraged, either on their math facts or IXL/Prodigy/Boddle! 

Boddle Click HERE IXL Click HERE Prodigy Click HERE

Division Math Test - Thursday, April 9th

Science Focus: Energy Flow and Ecosystems 

Overview: Students completed a Google slides migration project in their student google drive account! Students got to walk around and check out other peers slideshows on Thursday to learn about animal migration. Check out your student awesome project by logging into their student drive!  Students will continue continue to identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain can affect the ecosystem.   

Social Studies Focus: A Nation Dividing 

Overview:. Students will be reading about how slavery divided the United States from 1840-1865. 

Spelling Focus: 4.4 Long I Words

Students will spend 15 minutes per day learning about and practicing spelling patterns/rules to ensure mastery.

Spelling List: apply, frighten, smile, combine, minus, spider, defies, python, style, delight, refid, tonight, describe, silent, united

Homophones:  One, Won, I, Eye, Ate, Eight

Homework: Spelling Homework due every Wednesday. (sent home every Friday) Also, study spelling words!

Pre Tests are on Wednesdays. (students who score a 100 will select a fun silent activity during the test on Friday) 

Test will be on Friday. (for short weeks, no practice test will be given)

Reading Focus: The BFG Novel Study

Students will spend 35 min per day gaining comprehension and analysis skills for all genres of literature.

Focus: Read, analyze, and write about Ch. 14-17

Homework: Independent Reading/Library Challenge: students should read out loud for 10 minutes each night and focus on their smooth and emotion filled "narrator voice".

Cursive Focus: Sentence & Signature Practice

Students will spend 10 min per day learning and practicing their cursive skills. 

Focus: Improving the "not to fast and not to slow flow" of writing in cursive in full complete sentences.

Homework: None

Grammar Focus: 4.1 punctuating dialogue

Students will spend about 15 minutes per day focusing on a specific grammar rule to apply throughout their writings.

Focus: We will explore and master correctly punctuating dialogue.

Homework: None

Unit 4 Test: May 15th

Writing Focus: Responding to reading

Students will spend 35 minutes per day mastering multiple writing styles and techniques.

Focus: We will respond to our reading in a variety of writing styles.

Homework: Revising and Editing worksheet Due every Wednesday! (sent home every Friday)

Scripture Focus: Unit 12 - The Life of Saul

Students will spend 30 minutes per day diving into God's Word to grow their understanding of scripture, who we are in Christ, and how we can walk in faith daily.

Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 8-9:2, 14-17; 10:1; 13:5-15; 15:7-31

Weekly Memory Verse: And whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: 'This is the way. Walk in it.'  -  Isaiah 30:21

Character Trait: Obedience means fully doing what God wants us to do, knowing thate knows what is best.

Biblical Principle: The Holy Spirit reveals truth to us.

Homework: Memorize weekly verse Due on Wednesdays (sent home every Wednesday)

Unit 12 Test: Friday, April 17th

Unit Study Guide: Unit 12 study guide