The Week of April 12th...

Calendar:
April 13th - Marion County Museum visits us
April 20th-Marion County Museum visits us
April 22-Take Your Child To Work Day
April 29th-WOLVES PARTY
April 30th-Attendance Award

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:
The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Cooperation.

State Tests
The students who did not pass the state reading and math test the 1st time will be given a second opportunity this week. If your child hasn’t met yet, please encourage them to do their best and read the entries carefully. They receive their scores upon completion of the test so will be able to share them with you. There will be one more opportunity starting May 3rd to meet the state standard.

TAKE YOUR CHILD TO WORK
April 22nd is “Take Your Child to Work Day”. We sent a form home last week so you can let the us know if you plan to do that. If your child goes to work with you on that day, they will be excused from class work if they complete the journal of their activities. When they return to class, they will share what they learned while visiting your work.

SPELLING/READING
This week we will be reading the 24th story in our reading book, "Into the Sea" (U5S4). The skill we will be focusing on is Author's Purpose. An author's purpose is the reason for writing something. Some purposes for writing are to entertain, to inform, to express, and to persuade. Predicting an author's purpose can help you decide whether to read something slowly and carefully or quickly for fun.

The spelling words this week are words that have vowels with no sound clues. They are: machine, especially, usually, probably, giant, buffalo, Canada, canoe, relatives, stomach, moment, cement, yesterday, animals, iron, favorite, welcome, support, suppose, and August. Spelling homework is to use the words in sentences. The students should underline each spelling word. The Tuesday night homework is due on Wednesday. The vocabulary for this week is: awkward, coral, current, flippers, muscles, protection, ridges, and underside. The challenge vocabulary words are: ecosystems, hatchling, mussel, and plankton.

Reading every night is very important to your child's success in school. Please have them read a minimum of twenty minutes each night and write a summary of what they read. Please sign your initials on their reading calendar. It is a great way for them to visualize their successes and to be a part of our reading celebration here at Weddle. I mark them off each morning and they will earn points toward going to the Wolves reading party.

BOOK REPORT
The April book report genre is Science Fiction. Science fiction stories usually transfer the
characteristics of a present-day society to another time, often the future. The author must be creative in writing an imaginative story about his new and unknown place and time. The April book report is due Friday, April 30th.

AAI means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” If students are focused in class they have time to finish all of their assignments except for Spelling and Math homework. Each Monday I will send home a sheet that will tell you if your child is missing any work in each subject area. Please review it with them Monday night, sign it, and have them return it to class on Tuesday. Anything that shows up missing on that sheet is work that was to be completed in the previous weeks. The students need to complete the work and turn it in to me as soon as possible. The following students were responsible about all of their work in class this term, and are on AAI:

Pedur, Liliana, Anthony, Daniel, Solomon, Audrey, Jordyn, Kayla, Larry, Joseph, Shania, Baylee, Myjha, Parker