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Parents, during this time of year, we often get little rain showers that create mud puddles on the playground, but don't necessarily interfere with our outdoor recess time. Over the past several weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of students who accidentally fall into these puddles. We ask that you please keep an extra set of clothes in your child's backpack for scenarios such as this. I know the kids don't like to stay in wet, muddy clothes for the remainder of the day. Thank you so much for helping us with this endeavor! :)

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Major: Shark Tank Project (40%)
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Major: Research Rubric (40%)
Minor: Word Study Check (50%)
Other:  None

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Major: Research Rubric (40%)
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We will complete our Innovator unit. We will discuss how life is affected by new technology and scientific breakthroughs. Students will learn about the following innovators:

Steve Jobs

Maria Mitchell

Jonas Salk

Cyrus McCormick

Bill Gates

Louis Pasteur

This week, students will become an innovator themselves and create a product to pitch to the "Shark Tank."

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Monday - Wear Dr. Seuss themed clothing

Tuesday- Core Essential - Forgiveness - Wear Lavender

Wednesday - Family Night

Thursday- No lunch visitors

Friday - No lunch visitors
-Field Day 1:00-2:30
-Wear class shirt

Spring break starts!

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We continue our nonfiction research unit this week! In this unit, we will:

1. Generate research questions about a topic.
2. Develop and follow a research plan.
3. Gather relevant information from a variety of sources.
4. Recognize the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing.
5. Use our knowledge of text structures (sequential, descriptive, cause & effect, problem & solution) to strengthen our comprehension of a text.

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Reading and writing will be integrated in this research unit. As we write about our research we will:

1. Generate research questions about a topic.
2. Recognize the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing.
3. Use our knowledge of text structures (sequential, descriptive, cause & effect, problem & solution) to compose our own research composition.

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We are reviewing and assessing unit six this week! This week we will review and assess:

Understand and talk about the concept of a suffix.

Recognize and use the suffixes –y, meaning “having or containing,” to form an adjective:  (dirt/dirty, ache/achy, knot/knotty. velvet/velvety)

Recognize and use the suffix -ful, meaning “full of” (fear/fearful, care/careful, forget/forgetful, joy/joyful, pocket/pocketful pity/pitiful)

Recognize and use the suffix -ness, meaning “state or quality of being,” to form a noun (kind/kindness, close/closeness, fit/fitness)

Recognize and use the suffix –ly, meaning “in a specific manner, period of time, or order” to form an adverb (live/lively, sad/sadly, easy/easily)

Recognize and use the suffixes –er, -or, -ar, which name a person or thing that does something to form a noun

For words that end with silent e, usually drop the e when adding a suffix that begins with a consonant: (live/living but live/lives, fierce/fiercer/fiercest, please/pleasant but grace/graceful)

For words that end with a consonant and y, usually change the y to i and add the suffix, but for words that end with a vowel and y, usually keep the y and add the suffix:  (copy/copied but enjoy/enjoyed)

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In this unit, we will:

1. Group ideas into paragraphs
2. Create flow in our writing with linking words
3. Connect pronouns and antecedents
4. Insert closers to add information to our writing

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-First person to see a telescopic comet.
-First woman elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, first female astronomer.

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-Helped stop a dangerous disease by developing a polio vaccine.

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As we wrap up 2D shapes this week, we will apply the same "classify and sort" strategy for 3D shapes. The students will also explore the nets of 3D shapes.

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This week, we will discuss the environmental changes that occur naturally, specifically floods and droughts, and their impacts on ecosystems.