May 1, 2025

Dear Parents,

          Welcome back! I hope you all had a fantastic April vacation! It’s hard to believe that we are in May!  I enjoyed meeting with all of you to discuss your child’s progress. We are in need of tissues. Any donations are greatly appreciated.

          Currently in reading workshop we are finishing up our fourth unit titled: Readers Have Big Jobs to Do. We will begin our fifth and final unit titled: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements. Students will be going on reading adventures, studying characters in books, learning important lessons and growing opinions about books.

          We continue to utilize the TIDE writing organizer as a tool to improve adding more details to our writing. In writing workshop we are finishing up our unit titled: Writing Reviews and later this month we will begin our fourth and final unit titled: From Scenes to Series: Writing Fiction. Students will learn to write realistic fiction, begin writing series, study genre and themselves as writers and publish a second series. 

          We have just finished Unit 11 and will begin Unit 12 in Reveal titled: Measurement and Data. The children will learn how to compare and order lengths, different strategies to measure lengths, tell time to the hour and half hour, organize, represent and interpret data. Later this month we will begin Unit 13 titled: Equal Shares. Please refer to the Open House Important References and be on the lookout for Unit 12 and 13 overviews in your child’s yellow homework folder.

          Currently in science we will be finishing up our science unit titled: Lights, Camera, Action!  During May we will begin our final unit titled: The Secret Life of Plants and Animals. There are many hands-on activities and literature included within each unit. 

          Our class will be participating in the ABC countdown to the last day of school. It begins on Monday, May 12th. Please be on the lookout Monday for the list of events that will be celebrated each day. 

          Please remember to return your homework log each Friday. This week we saw a large decline of students adding to/returning their log. Thank you for your continued support.

          I am so proud of your child’s perseverance and progress throughout this year! We are approaching the finish line! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Gaspa