Dear Parents,

Thank you to Ms. Kim, Ms. Dillard, Ms. Brown, and Ms. Riley for your participation in last week’s field trips.    It was a great help to the museum docents (and to me) to have parental support.  This week, we have our last field trip to the smART museum.  Parents- please meet us outside the cafeteria on Thursday at 1 pm.

Also, do not forget about the evening reception at the museum for the students on June 1 from 6-8  pm at the Smart Museum.  Please return red RSVP slips so that the museum may plan accordingly.  You may contact me at <a href="mailto:agkrecik@cps.edu">agkrecik@cps.edu</a> if you have any additional questions.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>We will continue a shared novel, <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Witch Of Blackbird Pond.</span> Students will refine their reading comprehension skills that we have been focusing on all year.  These include:  prediction, summarizing, visualizing, inferencing, and drawing conclusions.  In addition, students will read short fiction books to refine their skills in guided reading groups.<strong></strong>

<strong>Writing: </strong><strong>We will continue to focus on the elements of poetry this week.   Students will analyze other poets’ work and write more authentic poetry.  We will practice Poetry Performance techniques, and students will prepare poems to perform.  In addition, students will begin work on their 5<sup>th</sup> grade timelines.  This will develop into an end-of-the-year writing piece for students to remember their school year. </strong>

<strong>Math:</strong> This week students will continue lessons from Unit 8.  Specifically, students will review multiplying fractions with whole numbers and practice multiplying fractions.  We will cover lessons 8.5, 8.7, and 8.8.  Students will take a Checking progress quiz on Thursday.

<strong>Science: </strong>This week we will continue to investigate Levers and Pulleys.  Students will construct and identify class-1, 2, and 3 levers and perform multiple trials for different experiments.  .

<strong>Social Studies:</strong><strong> Students will continue to study Chapter 12:  The Constitution this week.   Students will define vocabulary and respond to focus questions as homework. In class, student groups will summarize the main idea in the text and report back to class for notes. </strong>

<strong>Spelling: </strong>We will continue spelling practice this week.  Please study with your child the spelling words.  The spelling test will be Friday.<strong></strong>