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Scholarship Warning Reminder for parents to check Oncourse.

Field Trip
Our field trip to O2b is next Monday, May 16th. Please remember to send your child in their green Chets Creek t-shirt with a bag lunch. As we will be eating on site, everything in the lunch needs to be sent in disposable containers.

Musical
Please remind your child to study their lines, if they have a speaking part. All lines need to be memorized by this Friday, May 13th, in order for us to maintain our rehearsal schedule. Don't forget to return the costume info/donation form that went home last week. All t-shirt sizing info and donations are due to our Room Mom by tomorrow (Tuesday).

Second Step
This week's Anger Management lesson will focus on telling our angry feelings what to do when we need to make a complaint about something. People may be poor at getting their needs met because they don't speak up with complaints when it's necessary, or they speak up too aggressively and inappropriately. Complaints are often associated with angry behavior, but we will learn that if they are expressed appropriately (calmly and logically), they can be used to communicate important information to others.

Social Studies
Our journey around the United States will take us to the West Region which is further subdivided into two groups: Pacific and Mountain. This region is further divided because of its large size. Please help your child review the eleven states by looking over the daily questions, as well as the map. We will discuss several landmarks, including the Great Salt Lake and the Redwood Forest. The quiz will be Friday.

Science
Our study of light energy continues with a look at what light can do (besides reflect). We will investigate how light can refract, or bent, because it passes through objects at different speeds. Try putting a spoon in a glass of water. Observe how the handle appears broken, or bent, from the side view. Ask your child to explain this phenomenon to you. There will be no quiz this week due to Musical Rehearsals.

Math Workshop
In Math Workshop, we are continuing our studies into representing and describing data. The students are using data to compare groups, as well as reading and interpreting a bar graph. During class disucssions, we have been using summaries such as almost all, very few, half, or more than half. Ask your child about their "Places We Like to Eat" representations we have been working on in class. Please continue to look for real-world example of bar-graphs and send them in for the class to share. Your child will earn 3 success tickets if they do so. The math quiz on Tuesday will be a mixed review of objectives worked on during Calendar Math. The students will have Homework Sheet #31 to complete. It will be reviewed in class on Wednesday and Friday.