Hello Lincoln Families,
This year is quickly coming to a close! Just a quick update about the packing situation in the classroom. Teachers need to pack up and move materials to prepare for the renovations. In addition, I've been called to Jury Duty the last week of school. As a result, I plan to be packed up by next Friday, June 2nd. Thank you for your understanding!
Important Dates:
Late Starts: Every Wednesday in May!
NO SCHOOL Memorial Day: 5/29
Kiwanis Park: 5/30 (Leave at 1:00 for park and stay until about 3:00)
Lincoln Field Day: 6/5
Last Day of School: 6/9
Academic Agenda
Reading: The new learning focus will be text structures, including time order, compare and contrast, & cause and effect in a text. We have also been analyzing poetry. Ask your child what new poems we have read!
* (Continuous) Using the data from the Fountas & Pinnell reading assessments, NWEA, and conferring conferences, we are working on what reading strategies and goals each student needs. These strategies are intended to be added to their "reading tool kit". These mini-lessons are used as a focus for many reading strategies. It's possible to use more than one reading strategy at a time. These strategies cover comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary.
Writing: Students have been working on their historical events and essay! This is an integration of the Social Studies and writing curriculum. The events include Underground Railroad, The Great Migration, Ellis Island (Immigration) Dust Bowl, and the Orphan Train. Ask your child what event they picked! After students collect the research they will write an informational essay.
Math: We took the unit 7 test last week, and will begin unit 8. This section prompts students to consider different ways of looking at two-dimensional shapes: by the number of sides, length of sides, size of angles, presence of parallel or perpendicular lines, and symmetry. Students examine these attributes in shapes, classify the shapes by the attributes, and explain their classifications. For example, they identify quadrilaterals as parallelograms if they have two pairs of parallel sides, as squares if they have four equal sides and four right angles, and so on.
Unit 8: In studying symmetry, students characterize shapes based on whether they can be folded into two equal halves that match up exactly, draw lines of symmetry, and complete drawings of figures that are halved by a line of symmetry.
Unit 6 Family Support Materials
Learning Narrative Video Unit 4
Home Connection: Family Support Video for Unit 4
Math Units below
- Factors and Multiples
- Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
- Extending Operations to Fractions
- From Hundredths to Hundred-thousands
- Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement
- Multiplying and Dividing Multi-digit Numbers
- Angles and Angle Measurement
Science: In this unit, students explore energy! Students investigate how energy is stored, how it can make objects move, and how collisions transfer energy between objects. Students also construct devices that convert energy from one form into another, such as heat into motion and electricity into light.
Social Studies: Social Studies and writing curriculum will be integrated. This research and essay writing will take several weeks to conclude. This includes writing an informational essay from the research. The events include Underground Railroad, The Great Migration, Ellis Island (Immigration) Dust Bowl, and the Orphan Train. We have also begun the "Our Federal Government" unit. This will help prepare students for vocabulary and background knowledge before our Lansing trip!
The United States in Spatial Terms
Weekly Specials Schedule
Lunch: 1-1:25 Lunch Recess: 1:25-1:50
A.M. Recess: 11:20-11:40 every day
P.M. Recess: 3:00-3:15 every day
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