March 23-26th

Notes for This Week:
Good luck to all of the Variety Performers Tuesday night!

Reading:Nonfiction story on "keystone" plant species. Mangroves from the Southeast and saguaro cacti from the Southwest. We are also reading about carnivorous/insectivorous plants in Minnesota.

Math: Finishing decimals this week. The test will be on Thursday. The kids have been doing very well learning the skills involving decimals.

Science: Finishing up studying the water cycle. We will start social studies after spring break.

Specials: Mon- Music, Tues- Art, Wed- Media, Thurs- Phy. Ed.L24

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YouTube Plants Playlist

MN DNR "Plants That Eat Animals" from Dan O'Brien

Mangrove Forests

Spelling this week will be the same list as last week. The students struggled with the list from Week 23 (Cricket in Times Square). We will be doing some extra studying this week before moving on to the Week 24 list next week). There will be no word find. Instead the students are studying the words they find most difficult. We will do a final post test on Friday.

Midwest study table
Midwest
Midwest Matching Game
Learn your states and capitals

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April 4th-8th

Verbs

Bad doggy 2011

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Midwest study table
Midwest
Midwest Matching Game
Learn your states and capitals

What's happening in 4-2:
1. Mr. Knutson continues teaching about agriculture in the Midwest as we study the Midwest states and capitals.
2. This week in Language Arts we are reading about Mangrove forests, studying verbs, and spelling words with multiple suffixes.
3. MCA tests begin next week so we are doing are final tune-ups.
4. There is no school on Friday, April 8th. Teachers have workshops.

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