Weekly Wrap-Up

This week in language arts, we began talking about persuasive writing. Fair warning parents...letters came home on Friday from your child trying to persuade you of something! :) We focused on context clues in reading, another important skill for the STAAR test.

In math, we wrapped up probability which was super easy for the kids. Now we have begun a general review of all skills learned this year, beginning with place value and money this week. We will continue this review until the STAAR test in later April.

Students really enjoyed the soil shakes experiment. They added water to their soil samples, gave it a good shake, and then let it settle into layers. Most samples clearly showed three distinctive layer like we had learned about from our textbook. They wrote reflections about all they have learned throughout this unit on soil and those went home in Thursday folders. On Thursday and Friday, we focused on volcanoes again, and are building models of volcanoes that we will have "erupt" on Monday. They are looking forward to that for sure!

I sent home a pretty big Scholastic book order...5 different order forms. With the book fair being in May, I most likely will not send home another order, so this is our last one for the year. Please consider placing an order for your child by Thursday April 10. Each order that we get as a class allows me to earn free books for our growing classroom library. Thanks in advance for your support, and have a great weekend!