Hello Parents! I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter! I had a great time in Waterloo with my family! 



Math- This week they have done quite a bit with fractions. They learned about recognizing equivalent fractions in pictures. They also learned how to create equivalent fractions using multiplication and division. This led them to work on finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) with 2 numbers. This will lead them to work on simplifying fractions soon. 

Language Arts- The story this week was about a boy named Ruben and his family on a trip to the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde, Colorado. Ruben likes to solve mysteries. He figured his goal was to find out why the Puebloan people left this area. He also had a couple of other mysteries to solve that revolved around his sister, a pen, and his notebook. We also read a short story called 
"Cave of the Crystals". This cave is in Mexico and has crystals that have are 36-foot and took hundreds of thousands of years to get that big. Both stories were pretty interesting to me. The spelling list is more challenging this week. Many will need to study for Friday's test. This week they focused on suffixes, but the words are more difficult. 

Religion- They finished the movie on Wednesday. We will get back to our chapter now. I probably won't test them over this chapter because of the break we took to watch the movie. 

Have a great weekend! I am off to Waterloo again for my niece's First Communion. 
God Bless, Miss Surma