English Language Arts Math

Students have: Students have:

Reading: Learned many strategies to multiply
Have made inferences multi-digit numbers by 1 digit numbers
Worked on determining cause Made comparison statements ~
and effect 21 is 3 times as many as 7 which means
Identified theme the message 21 = 3X7
of the story Multiply tens, hundreds and thousands
Learned how understanding Estimate products
character helps you understand Used the distributive property to multiply
the story Used expanded form to multiply
Learned new vocabulary words Mental math to multiply for example
Continued to practice finding the knowing that 4 X 25 = 100
point of view, story structure, Solved multistep word problems
authors purpose and retelling Used regrouping to multiply
Writing: Parents Corner
Learned how to write a
paragraph using sensory details Your child can go on Think Central to continue to
and descriptive words practice the math we do in class they can go to the
interactive student edition to see the lesson again in
Spelling Words video format or do a PMT lesson to continue to
Practiced words with short i, o practice. If they find the math tricky Id have them
and long i,o along with go to the interactive student edition.
homophones Remember to send your child to school every day with
Grammar a healthy snack.
Practiced using quotes, fixing
run on sentences and fragments When your child returns to school, please send them
and proper nouns to school with a note explaining the absence.
Vocabulary Words ELA Lesson 3-5
Assist, burglaries, innocent, scheme, **** Have your child practice both their addition and
regretfully, misjudged, suspect, favor, subtraction facts along with the multiplication facts
speculated, prior ****
Seafaring, foaming, tidal, outcast, yearning, Special Events
memorable, betrayed, condition, shortage, Costume parade was a success. There were
horrified so many creative costumes.
Vocabulary Strategies The Maritime Center came to the
Learned more prefixes : non, mis classroom and did stream tables with us.
Using context clues