Weekly Update

Important Info.  

• Math MAP Testing for fourth grade students starts tomorrow, May 1st until May 3rd. It is important that students get a good night's sleep these next couple of days and nice, healthy breakfasts in the mornings! Phones and other personal devices are not allowed in the testing room and will be locked up in a safe place during testing.  We enjoyed a few MAP treats, but will have to wait to see what is in our "mystery box" until after MAP! 

• We are thrilled to announce the Long School Talent Show: Long's Got Talent!
  

  The talent show will be during school on May 23rd and parents are welcome to attend.  Forms should already be signed and turned in.  T

  ry-outs are after school tomorrow from 3:30-4:30 for third, fourth, and fifth grade students. 
• As a reminder for Strings students, this Thursday, May 4th is the 4th grade all-district rehearsal.  Rehearsal is scheduled from 9:15-11:00am in the district auditorium. 
• On Monday, May 15th, we will head to the lead mines in Bonne Terre, Missouri for our final field trip!  Please make sure to turn in permission slips and money.
• Field Day is Friday, May 19th.  This year we will have the parents lead the students from station to station and the teachers will be running the stations.  There will be 3 time slots to choose from: morning (8:30am-12pm), afternoon (12:30-3pm), or all day (8:30am-3pm).  Please use this link to sign up: SignUpGenius

• Long's Grant's Farm Night has been rescheduled to May 19th. Our Cardinal's game night is May 31st!  

Writing/Spelling

We are working on our final drafts of our Fox essays!  It would be helpful for students to bring in their devices since our cart computers are being used for MAP testing throughout the building.  We will not be taking a spelling test until after MAP testing. 

Reading

In Reading we continue to meet in book clubs and reading groups.  We also continue to close read texts, looking for theme, author's craft, mood, vocabulary, figurative language, character traits, and more.  

Math

We are now reviewing all big topics taught this year and practicing math skills for the MAP test.  This includes long multiplication and division, fractions, solving multi-step word problems, geometry, etc. 

Science

This past week we started our last Science unit, Forces and Motion, with a lab!  Students calculated the speed it took to chew bubble gum!  They had a blast.