Happy Friday!
I really enjoyed speaking with all of you this week during conferences! I really appreciate all that each and every one of you do for your child and their success here in the classroom. I appreciate all of your continued support for me as well. Conferences is just a reminder to me of how incredible my students are and how fortunate I am to work with them this year.
Saving Fiona, our class book that we entered into NDLC's Book March Madness, made it to the final two! The students are so excited to see if we will win! 🤞🏻
There is no school next Friday (4/2/24) or Monday (4/5/21). Enjoy your long weekend!🐰🐣🐥
Here's the link to order a Yearbook! https://www.prepaysystems.com/view/ZEBslp43/new-directions-learning-community-yearbook-orders
Upcoming Events:
April 5th: No School
Reading: We began Forward reading test prep this week! Students are really working hard to answer practice questions and analyzing and thinking deeply about the practice readings we are working through as a class!
Writing: Our journalism unit has come to an end. This past week we worked on feature articles. These articles tend to be what we see in magazines and share information that can be shared over a period of time and isn't necessarily 'breaking news'. It has been so fun creating the newspapers with the kiddos and watching them go through the day as journalists and writers. Check out our Google Slide on Seesaw to see the featured articles the student's worked on this week!
Word Study: We've are still working through Unit 10. We will likely be done next week and take the test on Thursday This unit focuses on the double vowel syllable which we are going to call the "D syllable". The "D syllable" contains two vowels that are next to each other such as "ai" in "bait". We will be learning about other vowel teams as well. We are going to work on adding suffixes to the word endings of vowel teams and understand how sometimes when two vowels are together, they don't make a combined sound. For example the "ea" in create. This week's fundation work will becoming home earlier next week.
Math: Students took the Unit 6 Math Test this afternoon. I will have those graded and ready to give back on Monday. Students take the time to correct their errors and I do have them bring them home to get signed by parents. Be on the look out for this on Monday evening.
Content: We've been exploring more topics related to Earth's systems and processes. We've also been spending some content time practicing reading and test prep questions on a website called Common Lit. The goal of this extra practice is for students to become comfortable reading and working online as they will take their Forward Exam on their computers.
Have a great weekend! 🌞
Carly Burris
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