We are now a few days into our last full week in April and only about 23.5 days left of school! I can’t believe how quickly time is flying by. Here are some upcoming important dates:

Monday-Thursday: read 20 minutes, complete reading log
Friday: reading logs due

**MAP testing is on Thursday and Friday this week!!!

Friday, May 11th- 4th grade field trip to Powder Valley Nature Center
Friday, May 18th- Field Day
Tuesday, May 29th- last day, dismiss at 11:50

ELA:
We are finishing up our ELA MAP test on Thursday, as well as completing our Evaluate test this week. On days we are not testing, we will continue to look at advertisements and how they sell their good or service. We will also redesign an ad for consumers in the elementary school-age range. Our spelling words include words with the with- prefix (withdraw, within, without, and withhold) as well as the be- prefix (make): befriend, bewitch, beguile, bejewel, and becalm. Check out these practice activities:

1. Propaganda Techniques video
2. Propaganda Techniques website
3. Create an Advertisement Game

Science:
We are wrapping up our unit on animal adaptations by creating our own Missouri birds. Students are given different body parts that they must put together in different ways to create a new bird that could live in one of our Missouri ecosystems. Students must then write about how their bird survives given its behavioral and structural adaptations. We will finish the week by beginning a discussion on vertebrates and invertebrates. Check out these activities:

1. Adaptations Game
2. Build Your Wild Self online game
3. Living Things in their Environment game