Monday, May 14, 2012

May 14-18

On Monday students will be bringing home permission slips for our annual Kids Against Hunger field trip. There is a cost for this trip of $2.00. KAH also takes donations if you are able to help out. The field trip is on Thursday, May 24th from around 12:00 to 3:00. 
Please return permission slips by Friday, May 18th. 

Fourth grade students will also be receiving permission slips for our end of year field trip to the Minnesota Zoo in the next week. More information to come. 

Spring Fling is this weekend! If you have not singed up to help and are able, please sign up at   http://www2.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=caspringfling  

Fourth grade students will be taking the NWEA science this Thursday the 17th. 

This Week's Academics
MUR -This week we will be the reading the story "Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser." We will work with this story throughout the week focusing on inferencing and retell. 

Spelling homework is due Friday.  

History - We have moved into our unit called The United States Constitution. There are ten chapters in this unit and we will have an OPEN BOOK quiz at the end of the unit. This quiz will happen next week.  
 
Writing - This week we will be working on our editing skills along with writing our final pen pal letters of the year!
 
Read Aloud - We continue to read Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix this week.

MUM -This week we will be reviewing the skills from the entire year before we take the interim on Wednesday and Thursday. The last big math test of the year! Yippee!
Math homework is due Friday.