NEWSLETTER MRS. TURNER APRIL 16-20
CRCT- The CRCT starts this week. The Reading Test will be given on Wednesday, Language Arts on Thursday, Math on Friday, Science the following Monday, and Social Studies on Tuesday. A special snack schedule was sent home on Friday. Please mark your date and item on the calendar. As always, students need to get to bed early, eat a good breakfast, and bring several number 2 pencils with good erasers. Students should have a good book to read when they finish the test.
ZUMBA FOR RELAY FOR LIFE- On April 25, from 2:45-3:45, a zumba class will be offered for $5. Mrs. Cyr will be teaching the adults in the gym and Kelly Mattingly will be teaching the children in room 401. All proceeds will benefit Relay For Life. Come on out and get some exercise and support a great cause!
$1,000 FOR FORD- 11 Alive is sponsoring a contest for schools. All you have to do is go on line and nominate Ford Elementary ONCE A DAY, and we could earn $1,000 for our school and a live spot on 11Alive News Today the week of April 30th. The contest lasts through the week of April 24th. Please log onto http://www.Facebook.com/11Alive or http://bit.ly/Hv7Mew.
HOMEWORK- Students will have minimal homework this week and next week due to testing. Reading logs will still need to be filled out both weeks.
ACCELERATED READER- These next two weeks are a great time to earn AR points because students will not be having much homework. All students need at least 10 AR points with 80% comprehension by Friday, May 18th.
SUBJECT MATTER- Ask your child various CRCT Review questions below!!!!!!
SPELLING- We will be working on Cloze Review #30 this week AND next week. We will not take a test over this group of words until NEXT Friday./ We will be reviewing all of the different ways to make words plural. Ask your child to tell you all of the ways to make words plural with an example of each. (add s=cat/cats, add es=bush/bushes “If you hear es, you add es.”, consonant before y change the y to I and add es=butterfly/butterflies, vowel before y just add s=monkey/monkeys, change the word-mouse/ mice, keep the word the same=deer/deer, if a word ends with f or fe change the f or fe to v and add es=knife/knives
ENGLISH- All of the parts of speech will be reviewed this week. Ask your child to “show” you the parts of a friendly letter and tell what is included in each part. (heading, greeting, body, closing, signature) We will continue to work on our cursive handwriting.
READING- We will be reading and discussing Time For Kids and noticing the types of questions and what we should look for in the passages to locate the correct answers./ All students should have a couple of books AT SCHOOL to read during testing./ Review Author’s Purpose- Ask your child to tell you the three main reasons why authors write (PIE – persuade, inform, entertain)./ Use Buckle Down to review various reading topics.
MATH- We are learning about the distributive property of multiplication and reviewing other properties. Review various math topics. Study all of your geometry vocabulary. Please ask your child to tell you and to act out how to find area and perimeter. (perimeter=add all of the sides or count around the outside edges/ area=length x width or count the squares. SQUARE should be in the area answer.)
SCIENCE- We are using our science workbooks to review and practice the various topics we have studied this year. The students have done a great job working in groups to get the correct answers for the reviews. Students are encouraged to bring the workbook home each night and review the CRCT practice pages. Please ask your child to tell you the three kinds of rocks. (Igneous, sedimentary, and meta
morphic)
SOCIAL STUDIES- We have studied 9 people who have had an effect on the United States. All of the students have a flip chart with information on each person. Students are encouraged to take home the flip chart to review the various people. Ask your child to tell you the 4 types of resources and an example of each (natural resource-wood, human resource-fireman, capital resource- tow truck, entrepreneur-someone who takes a risk to start a new business)
WRITE IN THE AGENDA HOW YOUR CHILD DID ON THE QUESTIONS= Fantastic, Very Good, Fair, or Poor- Is there any particular topic he/she needs to review?