Weekly Update 5.21.25
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On May 21, 2025
Be on the Lookout:
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- White Folders come home today. Please review materials with your child.
- Thank you for helping us ROCK our hallways! Students are encouraged to dress as rockstars themselves tomorrow at school.
- Next week we will have a spirit week across the upper grades to get kids ready for exams. Please see attached visual for details! word-spirit
- MARK YOUR CALENDAR for some important upcoming dates!
- Memorial Day holiday- no school on Mon, May 26th
- Reading EOG’s: Mon, June 2nd
- Math EOG’s: Wed, June 4th
- Student celebration/parent party: Tues June 10th from 12:15-1:15
This week in Literacy:
We are reviewing all concepts taught this year and working to build stamina on longer passages. Students are expected to use PARTY as a reading strategy to help them succeed.
Our new read aloud is Matilda by Roald Dahl. The kids are loving the brainiac girl with difficult parents.
This week in Math:
We are reviewing all concepts taught this year and working to build stamina solving many problems at once. Students are expected to underline/circle key words and DRAW VISUAL MODELS to help them succeed! No rushing and solving solely in our heads!
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, capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton.
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.
