Week of April 9-13

We're finally back to a normal week! I hope that you and your family enjoyed a restful Easter weekend. I know I did!
Reading
We have our new Storyworks magazine now & are diving right in with this week's story, "Roy's Secret." Fairy tales are fantastic & Roy is taken away into that world through his reading! Your child should be rereading our story each night to familiarize themselves with the layout & story line. Our weekly reading test over it will be this Thursday & we'll be using our Storyworks magazine daily in class. Along with our story, we are completing our vocabulary 24 packet using math words that we're already familiar with. This is due completed by Friday & we'll have our normal test then as well. My new lit circle books didn't pan out as I had hoped. I was going to wait until our final lit circle book to do this, but have decided to do it now so that no more time is wasted. I've told the kids to come to me Thursday with a novel in mind that they'd like to read on their own for lit circles this time around. It has to be school appropriate & on their reading level. I told them to be ready to let me know by Thursday what they're choosing (with my approval).

We have light! 
In science we're intrigued with electricity & figuring out how simple circuits work! We've been figuring out what makes them work & how to fix circuits that do not light! It's been awesome! Ever wonder how Christmas lights work? Well, we'll be getting into that this week, along with a fabulous invention, the electromagnet!


2nd & 3rd Period Science Grades
I have a few missing grades that were not collected when I was out and had a sub. I have collected the following assignments & will have them posted in the near future: Pasta Parallels, Round & Round. If your child has an * as their grade, most likely I have the assignment in my hands & it will change when I update things again. If they did not turn it in you will see a zero for the grade. Feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns.