Wow!  It's the fourth quarter.  Can you believe it?  It has been a pleasure working with your child this year.  This quarter we will review some of the concepts and prepare your child for the next grade level.

READING:  This week we will be working on the skill focus Summarizing and Paraphrasing.  We will use graphic organizers, small group discussion and partner reading.  The students will be given a list of vocabulary words on Monday.  They will write a story, poem, sentences and a make a cross word puzzle of the words. At the end of the week they will be given a test on the words.  The list of words are:  <strong>ASSET, INTENTLY, PROFUSELY, ORDEAL, TERRAIN, DISMAL, PERIL, ESTEEM, IMPASSIBLE, ENCOURAGEMENT, REASSURANCE, DISASTER, CYCLONE, OPTIC, AND POLYGRAPH. </strong>Please study these words with your child each night.

<strong>MATH:  T</strong>his week focus will be fractions<strong>. </strong>We will review adding  and subtracting like and unlike fractions.  Next we will multiply fractions.

<strong>SCIENCE: </strong>The students will be introduced to Solar Energy, using the Foss Kit.

<strong>WRITING:  T</strong>he students will finish up their expository writing .