Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Watch these announcements on video here.

Mr. Gray’s Class Podcast

Reader’s Workshop

This week we will start a unit on Dystopian Books. We will read Among the Hidden all together this week. Next week after kids will be reading their own Dystopian books and have an opportunity to read in book clubs. I have some Dystopian Books in my classroom. Our library Mrs. Rusmisel is trying to curate Dystopian Books for our school library. Here is a list of books that would be great to read during our Dystopian Unit for the next few weeks. The students tend to really enjoy this genre.

Writer’s Workshop

The kids will start a new unit on writing research-based information writing.

Math

Math Answers and Help Here

What happened to math class?

We will continue our Data Sets and Distributions Unit. This week we will focus on calculation measures of center like mean and median. We will also calculate the M.A.D. (Mean Absolute Deviation).

Here is a schedule of April Math Tests.

History

We will continue our study of Ancient Greece. The kids will research, answer, and debate the question: Was Alexander the Great really “great”?

Science

The kids will work with Miss Stevens in science lab.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray