Weekly Update 4.30.25
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On April 30, 2025
Be on the Lookout…
- White folders come home today. Please take time to review work samples and school papers.
- Thank you all for the amazing turnout for Food Truck Rodeo! I am proud of our little entrepreneurs.
- Reminder we DO have school this Friday. It was supposed to be a teacher workday, but it’s now a school day due to snow makeups. Please let me know if your child will NOT be here so I can plan accordingly.
This week in Literacy:
In Module 4 we will explore the impact of water around the world! Find out standards, goals, and more by clicking this link to the parent information letter.
In connection with our EL curriculum, we are reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Be sure to ask your child about Nya and Salva’s journey! word-Dinka
This week in Math:
We are on our last remaining unit of our math curriculum with some more measurement concepts. Students will learn about US Customary measurement of length (in, ft, yd, mile), capacity (cup, pint, quart, gallon), and weight (oz, lb, ton). To assist parents in helping their kids I have included a guide. I know I had to refresh myself on some of these, so hopefully this makes things easier!
Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model, inch, foot, yard, mile, measure, length, width.
This quarter in science:
- LS.3.1 Understand human body systems and how they are essential for life: protection, movement, and support.
- LS.3.2 Understand how plant structures aid in survival.
- LS.3.3 Understand how environmental factors aid in the survival of plants.
