Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a lovely Spring Break.  I just got in from San   Francisco tonight, so this overview will remain short and to the point.  Remember that there will be no school on Friday for Professional Development for staff.  Please contact me via email with any questions:  <a href="mailto:agkrecik@cps.edu">agkrecik@cps.edu</a>.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>We will begin exploring the world of nutrition this week.  We will analyze the food groups, 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 begin the week by creating fiction stories based on postcard prompts.  By the end of the week, we will begin exploring different types of poetry to begin our Poetry book unit.  Students will be learning about and creating several types of poems to include in their books. </strong>

<strong>Math:</strong> This week students will begin lessons from Unit 7.  Specifically, students will learn and practice exponential notation and scientific notation.  Students will also practice order of operations in number sentences.  We will cover lessons 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.  There will be a short Checking Progress quiz on Thursday.

<strong>Science: </strong>This week we will develop predictions and organize information in our notebooks for observing a radish and a celery cell.  We will prepare wet mount slides to examine cells on student-prepared slides.

<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 create a class timeline to highlight the important events leading up to the Revolutionary War. </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>