Rhino Report

• April 4: 3rd-5th Awards Assembly @2:00

• April 8: Ross Site Council Meeting 3:30pm

• April 8: PTO Meeting 5:30pm

• April 10: Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30-6:30 pm

• April 10: day 4th grade Day on the Farm 8:00-2:30

• April 11: NO SCHOOL/Parent Teacher Conferences 8:00am - 11:40am

• April 17: No School! Staff PD

• April 18: No School! Easter Break

• April 21: No School! Easter Break

• April 24: 5th grade -Comanche Middle School Tour

• April 25th: 1st grade parent activity 2:30-3:00

• April 25th: 2nd grade parent activity 2:00-2:45

• April 26: Night Of The Stars Dance the civic center 4:00pm-6:00

• April 28: 5th grade Band/ Orchestra Demonstration 8:45-9:30am @ DCHS.

• April 29: Dental Screenings

3rd Grade

• Reading: April 2, 3

• Math: April 9, 10

4th Grade

• Math: April 7, 8
• Reading: April 3, 4

5th Grade

• Science: March 31st- April 1st
• Reading: April 9, 10
• Math: April 15, 16

Tips for the Week of Testing

• Be punctual. Stay aware of the testing schedule and make sure that your child is at school on time on testing days.
• Get healthy sleep. Ensure that your child has gone to bed on time the night before so they’re well rested.
• Serve up a good meal. Make a healthy breakfast, including protein and healthy fat, to curb hunger during the testing session.
• Listen intently. Encourage kids to listen to and follow all directions given by the test administrator. If they have questions, they need to be addressed before testing begins.
• Take a timeout. Teach your child how to take “brain breaks” by stopping for a minute and taking a few deep breaths to help reduce test anxiety.
• Plan a treat for when testing is complete. This could be something as simple as a pizza and movie night or a weekend outing to a local park.

Here are essential internet safety tips you can discuss with your kids.

1. Don’t give anyone your password, name, address, the name of your school or any information about your family
2. Don’t talk to strangers on the Internet
3. Don’t agree to meet anyone in person that you’ve met online
4. Don’t fill in a profile that asks for your name and address
5. Don’t visit a chat room without an adult’s / parent’s permission
6. Don’t stay online if you see something you think your parents won’t like
7. Don’t post pictures of yourself without your parents’ permission
8. Do not download or install anything on your computer without your parents’ permission
9. If you have any questions about something you read, ask your parent or guardian
10. If you are talking to someone online and they make you uncomfortable, remember you don’t have to talk back to them

Math Update

• Know numbers and number names & count sequence.

• Count to tell the number objects.

• Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundation with place value.

• Math Vocabulary: ones, tens, ten frame, 5 group,

• Counting to 100 by ones, and tens

• Fluently add and subtract within 5

ELA Update

• Work on asking & answering questions about key details of a text. Also, practice retelling a story including key details, and major events. Work on identifying character, setting, and major events of a story.

  Count and segment syllables in spoken words. Practice the long and short sounds for vowels; a, e, i, o, u

  Sight words: yellow, blue, green, have, what, said, was, where, come
  

Quarterly Reading Goal

Continue reading together at home to help your child meet their reading goal.

Math Home Connection

Module 5 Lesson Videos

Math Update

• Place Value- groups of 10 and one (within 100)

• Place Value-10 more, 10 less (within 100)

• Place Value-greater than, less than, equal to (within 100)

• Counting and writing numbers to 120

ELA Update

• Learn how to find answers to questions from the text

• Use research to write questions and answers from informational text

Quarterly Reading Goal

Read two books this month.

Math Home Connection

Module 5 Lesson Videos

Math Update

• Continue math module 7- problem solving with length, money, and data.

ELA Update

• ELA focus: Fluency when reading text. Work on expression, and accuracy with grade level text. (practice re-reading your library books multiple times to improve accuracy and expression.)

• Cause, effect, temporal words, text features, character response, author's purpose
• Writing focus: narrative writing
• Phonics Focus: prefixes and consonant patterns

Reading Goal

April reading goal sent home. Read 20 minutes minimum each night. Reading goals due May 3rd.

Math Home Connection

Module 7 Lesson Videos

Math Update

• Continue practicing your multiplication and division facts.

• We will continue exploring geometric shapes and perimeter.

• Students will practice decomposing and composing four digit numbers.

ELA Update

• In reading, we will be learning about historical events and how it has affected the present. We will take what we learned from the reading to create an opinion writing piece about who they think is the most influential person.
  

Math Home Connection

Module 7 Lesson Videos

Math Update

• As we finish up our fraction unit we will move to working on showing decimals as a fraction.

• We have also been working a few days on learning line geometry. Ask your child to find shapes in the real world.

• Your family can explore fractions and decimals as tenths by using dimes that equal one dollar and hundredths with pennies.

• Your family can explore decimals more than one using different types of money.

• This link will help you better understand what your child is learning.

https://youtu.be/BfODzk4oWTQ

ELA Update

4th Grade is currently working on Unit 4 Module A. This module is digging deeper into complex texts. The students will be writing a narrative story with an innovative solution. We will be learning many of our vocabulary words throughout this module that connects to Market Day. Some supporting practice at home could be discussing innovative solutions to daily problems.

Math Home Connection

Module 4 Lesson Videos

Module 7 Lesson Videos

Math Update

• Module 6

• Coordinating Planes

ELA Update

In the month of April, we will be working with informational text regarding exploration in texts such as Explorers: Triumphs and Troubles and Pedro’s Journal. For writing, students will be asked to write opinion pieces based on positive and negative aspects of exploration to coincide with the texts read in class.

Quarterly Reading Goal

• April Reading Bingo

• Weekly one-minute passages

Home engagement: In social studies we are talking about the Louisiana purchases.

The Louisiana purchase cost $15 million dollars. Talk with your child about a big purchase you have

made and the importance of that purchase to you and your family.

Data highlight: In ELA, they got to read different genres for Dr. Seuss Day.

Math Home Connection

Module 6 Lesson Videos

Kinder: Listen all around you, when is it silent? When do you hear music?

1st Grade: Beat/No Beat

2nd Grade: Instrument Unit

3rd Grade: Based on what your child enjoyed musically this year, what would they like to do musically in the future?

4th Grade: What instruments does your 4th grader enjoy hearing?

5th Grade: Have you spoken to your child about Band, Orchestra or Choir for next year?

Fitness Testing/Baseball Unit

Our students have been learning about different types of genre available in the library! Challenge your student to read to new genre. We have so many choices from mysteries to historical fiction to biographies to science fiction to fantasy plus many more!

Hello Ross Families,

We will focus on kindness, citizenship, and continue to explore careers. Students will understand the review kindness, the concept of citizenship, and continue exploring different careers. Fifth-grade students will focus on skills to help them transition to middle school. Below is a list of books you can read with your child that focus on these topics.

Books

• What if Everybody Did That

• Mayor for a Day
• Miss Rumphius
• Mayor for a Day
• Earth Ninja
• What shoes will you wear?

Feel free to contact me if I can assist your family in any way.

Alarcon.erica@usd443.org or via Talking Points.

-Ms. Alarcon

7 Things Every Child Needs to Hear

• I Love You
• I am Proud of You
• I am Sorry
• I Forgive You
• I am Listening
• This is Your Responsibility
• You Have Got What It Takes

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