Curriculum News -

SPELLING
Students will use a  phonics based program.  We will also start a vocabulary extension piece for selected students who demonstrate an apptitude for good spelling and need further enrichment of advanced vocabulary. 

Reading Seminar
Finishing folktales.

Reading Workshop
Book Clubs - Point of view and perspective
  
Social Studies.  
 Next unit is Westward Movement and Colonization

Science

Next unit in April will be Life Science

Writer's Workshop
Memoir

Letter writing.  Pen pals will be used to make this more authentic.

Health
Unit 3 Food.

 Word Study

We are using a program called Reward which focuses on syllabication and also completing spelling tests that look at phonic patterns.