Classroom Curriculum Information

Week of April 14-18

Reading

Story of the Week: Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope

Genre- Nonfiction: Personal Narrative

In this selection, Anthony Reynoso, a boy who ropes and rides the Mexican Rodeo tradition, tells about his life. We will be discussing similarities and differences in Anthony's traditions and ours.

Please continue to read nightly to keep the reading progress going! Each student has a take-home book in their home folder that should be read several times during the week. These books are stories that include the vocabulary words of the week.

Vocabulary Words:

dappled, exhibition, landscape business, ranch, thousands

Writing

We are still working on writing complete sentences, using capitals and ending marks, and staying on topic in a paragraph. Paragaphs now must include a main idea sentence, supporting sentences, and a closing sentence. A writing grade will be taken once a week. All paragraphs with editing mistakes will be returned for students to correct. This will hopefully encourage students to edit their paper more closely before turning it in. We will also begin writing stories for our Author's Tea that will be held in May.

Spelling Words

under, read, last, never, own, set, line, end, left, us

Note** These words are our last set of spelling words for the school year! For the rest of the year we will review all of our spelling words.

Challenge Words:

(no challenge words this week)

Math

Current Chapter: We are currently in chapter 18 which is titled Plane Shapes. We will learn to identify triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, parallelograms, trapezoids, octagons, and pentagons.

Social Studies: We are not currently doing a unit in social studies.

Science: We are currently working on our unit called People Grow and Change. We will learn about some of our major body organs and how to keep them healthy.