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Second Step
Now that our musical is over, we are hoping to devote more time to our poster project. Most groups have selected a topic and are beginning work on their rough draft. By the end of this week, all groups will have a topic.

Science
We are finishing our unit on light energy this week. We will play Jeopardy in class on Tuesday to review for our unit test on Wednesday. Later in the week, we will continue working with our mystery beads. We concluded that they change color when exposed to UV rays. This week we will continue to investigate the importance of protecting ourselves from these harmful rays. We will cover the beads with sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses to help us observe how these items can protect our skin.

Social Studies
We will begin a study of immigration in America this week. We will begin with a virtual tour of Ellis Island. The format this week will not consist of the daily questions. Instead, we will be doing various in class activities throughout the week to prepare for the quiz on Friday. Please check the blog periodically this week for updates, so you can be sure your child is prepared.

Math Workshop
As we wrap up the school year, we are reviewing our skills with the four basic operations: adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division. The students are practicing how to accurately and efficiently compute answers to real world problems. We are also continuing to develop our understandings and strategies of multiplication and division facts. Ask your child how multiplication and division are related? Your child will earn 3 success tickets if they write in their planner the multiplication and division fact family using the numbers 7, 8, and 56. It should be the two multiplication and two division facts using those four numbers. We will have a Math quiz on Tuesday. The students will solve problems, using their most efficient strategy, in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division story problems. They will have Homework Sheet #34 for the week. Due to the short week, the entire sheet will be checked in class on Friday.