Hi Parents,
I hope you had a great weekend! We had so much fun on our Field Trip last week. Homework –Please complete the reading packet for homework. Spelling- We will be focusing on sort 32 this week. Students will have a spelling quiz on Friday, May 10th covering sorts 31, 32 and 33. Reading- Students will look at various fables and myths and discuss the moral of the story and what makes it a fable or myth. We will have a Reading Test on Tuesday, April 30. The test will cover figurative language, poetry (that poems have lines and stanzas), folktales, fables and myths. Students can bring home their reading interactive notebooks to study. Writing- Students will be completing an opinion writing piece that will be counted as their test grade in Writing. Please review the Opinion Writing Outline that I emailed home on Friday with them. For the next 6 weeks of school, we will be continuing to review the elements and expectations for narrative, informational, and opinion writing as well as constructive responses. We will also include some creative writing with the different types of writing we’ve studied. Grammar- We will continue to work on reviewing our grammar skills from this year. This week, we will be reviewing prefixes and suffixes. Social Studies - Our final unit this year is our Economics Unit. In this unit, students will define and give examples of the four types of productive resources: natural (land), human (labor), capital (capital goods) and Entrepreneurship (risk-taking and combining natural, human, and capital resources in an attempt to make a profit). Students will also give examples of interdependence and trade and explain the benefits of voluntary exchange. ( consumers and producers). In addition, students also will be working on describing how goods and services are allocated by price in the marketplace and explain that some goods are made locally, and some elsewhere in the country, and some in other countries. Finally, students will explain the concept of opportunity cost as it relates to making a saving or spending choice. Students will begin brainstorming for their business project (what business they would like to open, what resources they would need). On Thursday, May 2nd, students will have a quiz covering vocabulary we have discussed and human, natural and capital resources. Please review the vocabulary sheet I emailed home. This is also in students' interactive notebooks. Upcoming dates and reminders: April 29- Splash Into Kindergarten 9 am Media Center April 29- Watching the Science Fair Video May 3rd- Family Fun Night Thanks and have a wonderful week! Comments are closed.
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