April 29-May 3

Please remember to send back the permission slip for our field trip to the Building for Kids if you have not done so yet. Thank you!

Upcoming Events
5/10: Building for Kids Field Trip
5/21: Family Night

Reading: As the readers dig in to more challenging books, they will encounter words that are tricky to solve! This week, students will learn that when they get stuck on an unknown word, there are a few things they can do. Readers can...

• Try all of the strategies they know, don't try just one! 
• Set a goal of strategies to try
• Go back to the beginning of the page and reread to try to solve it
• If you've tried everything and still can't solve the word, mark it to solve it with your partner and move on! 
• Get help from your partner, be like a coach! 

Writing: It is our last week of writing all about books. The students will learn to add introductions and conclusions to their books. We will make their books the best they can be by adding using all of the charts and checklists we have created throughout the unit. The writers will be sure to add more details and fix up all conventions such as uppercase at the beginning of each sentence and including punctuation. We are excited to share our all about books with our 4th grade buddies!

Math: Here are a few highlights of what students will be doing in math this week:

• Telling, retelling, and writing equations for addition and subtraction stories
• building partners of 10 in many different ways to build fluency
• Practicing showing partners for 7-9
• Building numbers 1-20 with different tools and looking for patterns within the model

Science: This week, students will learn a key idea about forces: how pushes can change the direction and speed of an object’s movement. We will learn how some mountain towns in danger of landslides can build structures to protect themselves from falling rocks. Students will design and test their own solutions to re-direct falling boulders away from their town and toward a waiting dump truck.