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Summer Activities Night on Thursday, April 28th at 6:00 PM at Bridger. Sign up for Boys & Girls Club over the summer and different clubs around Logan!
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April 25-29

Welcome to the last week of April.  It always amazes me how quickly time flies when I have so many things left to teach!  I need it to slow down now.  Here is what we will be working on in English this week:

• phonics: blends, digraphs, and special vowels that split (in syllable breaks)
• phonics: suffixes tial, us, and its
• phonics: assessment (spelling with final /k/ sound, decoding exceptions, suffixes)
• continue with response to literature - pulling information from text to use as a source for writing (you should have seen one come home last week about recycling - we read an article about recycling and then we wrote our own version using information from the article)
• comprehension: continue with Change Makers and the objectives outlined in the last post
• math: vocabulary (halves, thirds, fourths, whole, bar graph, line plot, and pictograph)

We have three special events this week.  We will be having an internet safety assembly on Monday @ 12:45.  The Rotary Club will be making their annual visit on Tuesday to pass out books, and to give a quick talk about community service.  We will be going to Ellen Eccles on Wednesday to see Taiko drumming.  The buses will leave at 9 AM, and we will return at 2 PM.

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April 18-22

Unfortunately, I have to take another sick day; I have a fever of 102 and don't think I'll make it in tomorrow.  This has not been a healthy year for me.  Mrs. Meredith will be there.  She has subbed for me before so the kids will know who she is.  Here is what we will be working on this week:

• phonics: spelling with k, ke, ck, and c
• phonics: decoding exceptions (there are so many in English!)
  
• phonics: suffixes tion, sion, and ous
• phonics: letter combinations that split (sc, sk, sp, st, gn, nk, and ng)
• writing: the kids did well with the Lincoln writing last week.  We will continue working on pulling information from text and using it as a source for writing through the end of the school year.  This is an important skill for them to know for their continued success in school
• comprehension: we are beginning a new text called Change Makers.  The objectives we will be focusing on are identifying the main topic, describing the connections between a series of events, using images to augment understanding of text, identifying key details, and asking and answering questions.

Thank you for your continued support at home.  

We had two days last week when everyone was in school.  That hasn't happened in awhile.

April 11-15

Happy Spring!  Here is what we will be working on this week in English class:

• phonics: special vowel sounds AU/AW
• phonics: special vowel sounds OU/OW
  
• phonics: special vowel sound OO
• phonics: spelling with -ke, -ck, -k, and -c
• writing: finish up paragraph on Theodore Roosevelt
• writing: begin assessment paragraph on Abraham Lincoln - we will read two texts about Abraham Lincoln.  Students will need to pull information from these selections and write an 8 sentence paragraph about Abraham Lincoln.
• math vocabulary: shapes (pentagon, hexagon, quadrilateral, triangle, and cube)
• comprehension: reading selections on Abraham Lincoln

April 4-8

I hope everyone had a peaceful Spring Break!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: exceptions to murmur diphthongs
• phonics: decoding multi-syllabic words
• phonics: digraphs gn, wr, ph, kn, and ck
• phonics: digraphs with plural endings and multi-syllabic words with digraphs
• writing: begin new informational writing piece (we will be pulling information from the book we read about Theodore Roosevelt to write about about him)
• comprehension: compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt and Marching with Aunt Susan
• comprehension: read Lincoln (a poem) - objective: to describe how words supply meaning in a poem
• comprehension: discuss and determine author's purpose in the three texts we have been reading