Hope you heard about the play last week-it was good for the students to see performers dancing and singing, since they will be on stage June 8th!!!  Your children all have copies of all the songs, please help them practice is nice, loud singing voices at home.  Thanks.  We will be working on a script this week and next and your child will also have some lines in the play...more later.  As always now, we will be practicing The Charleston Dance each Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remind your children that they should stay focused (pay attention to August and listen)!!  Thanks for your help.

We will also be taking a Chicago Trolley around town on Friday,May 28th (a Chicago tour field trip).  Again, more information later.

Another Field Trip - Walking to Smart Gallery Friday, May 21, 2010..more information to follow.

Please save these dates!!  Thanks.

Language Arts:  All week our focus in reading will be through our Chicago Book.  We will have Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Silent Reading from this book.  Today we wrote in our Writer's Notebook about our Likes and Dislikes of Chicago.  What did your children write about?  What can they tell you about Chicago and its history so far?

We are reading from our AR Books, writing in our Journals and Writer's Notebooks, and enjoying our learning and skills.  I can tell by their focus and attentions to the tasks!!

We will also be working with our Poetry Unit and working in our Poetry Folder.

Homework:  Each child will create a Chicago Brochure.  Your child should work on their brochure each night this week, and next.  The brochure is due Friday, May 14, 2010.  Your child will have with them today some details and ideas on how to create this Chicago Brochure.  Thanks.

Math:  Lessons 9.8-9.11.  We will be working on Division, Lattice Multiplication (ask about this tomorrow), 2-digit multiplication and extending the partial-products method to products of 2-digit numbers.  Please review homework and give your child extra help with these objectives if needed.  Thanks.

Homework:  Lessons 9.8-9.11, Monday through Thursday.  Refer to Unit 9 Parent Letter when needed.

Unit 9 test will be next week.

Social Studies:  Our main focus this week will be on Chicago.  We will also do an activity on the volcano in Iceland.

Homework:  The Chicago Brochure.

Science:  We will spend the next two weeks on a Sound Unit.  Look for a parent letter tomorrow.

Art:  ...still working on our Chicago Neighborhoods...