Weekly Update - March 16

Good morning!  Thank you all for the birthday wishes and generous gifts.  The Ninjas helped to make be feel special and appreciated today!  Check out what we've been up to this week...

Rational Numbers
This week in our Rational Numbers unit, we focused on solving word problems involving money, decimals, and fractions.  We will be assessing our Rational Numbers unit on Wednesday, March 21 of next week.

Geometry
This week in Geometry we focused on identifying lines of symmetry and symmetric shapes.  Week 10 is now assigned in your child's Google Classroom.  Next week we will focus on drawing shapes with line symmetry.

Science
We began our Electricity unit this week!  This time the Ninjas will stay with me for science!  This week we reviewed safety rules for electricity and discussed static electricity.

Reading
Our historical fiction book clubs are well underway! This week students focused on understanding how the setting can impact characters and plot.  We also started to think about how we can determine themes of a text.

Writing
In our Literary Essay unit, writers focused on reading a text "like a writer" to pull out evidence and state claims about a character.  We then wrote to grow our ideas about the characters in our texts.  Be sure to ask your child which book they chose to write their first literary essay over!

Upcoming Dates

• 3/19: Library Checkout
• 3/26-3/30: Spring Break
• 4/4: Late Start; 11:05 start
• 4/10: Mrs. Nagy out
• 4/27: No school
• 5/4: Fishing Day