April 29-May 3

Thank you parents who came to our Parent Teacher night! We hope the students will use their learning from this year to have a great third trimester.

English

 We have been learning about the elements of a story. This week, your students are creating and writing stories of their own. Here is a site where they can practice, and see other stories written by children: http://www.kidscom.com/create/write/write.html. We are still reading "Hippo's Toothache" for our reading book.

This week's spelling words are: coral, tooth, ache, graph, data, tally, vine, cliff, moan, groan.

Extra reading practice: find your child's reading level and read with him. http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Math

Last week's topic was graphs. This week, students are now learning about pictographs. A pictograph is a graph that uses pictures. Here is a pictograph game for kids: http://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/pictograph/games/.

Be sure to check the key before reading the graph!

Science

In science, students are learning the difference between plants and animals. Next week, the students will learn about animals that can use camouflage.

We have talked about corals, which are animals. Here are some pictures of corals: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/coral-kingdoms/#.

We also have learned about plants that can eat animals, like the Venus Flytrap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpgMDOZInA&feature=related.