Before I go any further, we were invited by former Mayor Becky Pearson to help plant trees at Bradley Park in celebration of Arbor Day Thursday. I am inviting any parent who would like and is able to to accompany the class. I don't have an exact time yet, but it will be in the morning and we will be back at school for lunch. Each child will be able to plant a small tree, so it should be great fun. A letter will go home tomorrow with the time.
In Math we will continue with fractions, including adding and subtracting ones with the same denominator. We also will be doing a practice test or two of the State Math test, which will be the week of May 2.
We will continue learning about immigrants coming to America in the late 1800' and early 1900's in Social Studies. Your child will learn how children his or her age worked in sweatshops, factories or did piecework with their parents at home, working long hours for barely any pay.
Our test on Chapter 2 in Science will now most likely be Wednesday. I know tests keep changing, but we can't really take a test until we are prepared for it.
The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy test will be Tuesday. You would be very proud to know the children had excellent questions for Father Fallon concerning them last week, I think he was dually impressed. They all have such caring hearts.
As I mentioned in starting, we will be having our New York State English/Language Test very soon, the week we come back from Easter vacation to be exact. So, the next week and a half we will be concentrating on getting ready for that. We may have homework that includes examples of previous years tests.
Hope to see you Thursday!
