HI!

What a great short week we had!  We finished our Biography Buddies this week.  Ask your child who they researched and have them tell you at least two facts they learned. You could also ask them what "symbol" they drew to represent their famous person. If you want to see your child's hard work for yourself, they are hanging in our hallway!  

Reading Workshop-  We will begin our unit on poetry. This week we will focus on rhyme and rhythm in poems.   

Writing Workshop-  We will continue writing our persuasive letters.  We hope to have these ready to be mailed by the end of this week!  

 

Math-   We will wrap up our unit on multiplication and division.  We will take our test on Tuesday and then we will begin our unit on money. To help your child prepare for the test, you could review arrays and division story problems.

To review multiplication, you could draw an array and have your child write the multiplication sentence to match.  For example:

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Your child should be able to write the multiplication sentence to match the array:  6 X 3 = 18. They should also be able to write the repeated addition sentence to match, 3+3+3+3+3+3=18.  You could also make up story problem. I have 3 shopping bags. Each shopping bag has 5 apples. How many apples do I have in all?  

To review division, you could draw 16 stars.  Ask your child, " If you have 4 pieces of paper, how many stars could you put on each paper." Another example could be, " You have 21 skittles and 3 friends.  How many skittles would each friend get if you divided them equally."

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Class Celebrations- Vincent is our Star of the Week!  Way to go, Vinny!  We want to congratulate Caitlin and Harper for their hard work in the UIL Creative Writing Tournament!  We are so proud of both of you!  

I hope you have a great weekend!

Mrs. King