Dear Parents,

I hope you have been enjoying the wonderful spring weather thus far.  As the season changes, students begin to think of summertime.  Please remind your child how important it is to remain focused and end the school year strong.  Today is the beginning of our 4<sup>th</sup> quarter.  Parent-Teacher conferences will be next week.  I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress.  Please contact me via email with any questions:  <a href="mailto:agkrecik@cps.edu">agkrecik@cps.edu</a>.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>Our first week back was a week of establishing routines again.  Therefore this week we will begin our integrated Reading/Health unit on nutrition.  We will analyze the food groups, assign attributes to each food group, and students will create their own food pyramids.  Please have students bring in food labels from all the food groups to analyze in class.<strong></strong>

<strong>Writing: </strong><strong>Students will complete their Postcard fiction stories this Tuesday.  Then, we will begin exploring different types of Poetry in our Poetry book unit.  Students will be creating several types of poems to include in their books. </strong>

<strong>Math:</strong> This week students will continue lessons from Unit 7.  Specifically, students will learn and practice parentheses in number sentences and order of operations.  Students will also create line graphs for a given set of data and learn to order positive and negative numbers.  We will cover lessons 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 and 7.8.  There will be a short Checking Progress quiz on Thursday.

<strong>Science: </strong>This week we will look at brine shrimp with microscopes.  Students will prepare well slides for viewing, and students will answer questions in their science notebooks about brine shrimp.

<strong>Social Studies: </strong><strong>We will continue to study the events leading up to the Revolutionary war in Chapter 10 this week.  We will discuss the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress. </strong>

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