- April 20 - Charleton Park trip
- April 27 - Poetry Brunch (See below)
- May 3 - Muffins With Mom
- May 13 - Track and Field Day
- June 3 - Dunes Field Trip (rain date June 6)
Today was "Yellow Day" in order to encourage spring to stay! We wore yellow, watched the OLD video for the song, "Mellow Yellow" while we drank Mellow Yellow, watched the "Yellow Brick Road" Muppet video, made and ate some scrambled eggs, ate some Lemon Heads, and finally had banana popcicles. Whew! It was a yellow day. I forgot my camera to take pictures! :(
Puberty Lessons begin next week.
Students will bring short assignments home to discuss with you. The videos will be shown on Friday. Boys and girls are separate for this, but watch both videos. Mr. Hoekstra teaches this part to the boys so they are a little more comfortable. If you have not sent your child's permission form back, it is assumed that he/she is to be included in these lessons.
3 Field Trips Left!
FIELD TRIP! WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20TH
Wednesday is our field trip to Charleton Park! Please remember to send $5 with your child for this. Students will need a snack, sack lunch, and a drink. I will send a second note about this on Monday. We'll be touring a pioneer village in Hastings.
We'll see a general store, one room school house, military museum, and a typical home where students will make vegetable soup and butter to eat! As the note said, there is a gift shop with trinkets and candy. I encouraged the kids not to go crazy there- a couple dollars for some candy to $5 for candy and a little souvenir is plenty if they want to get something.
DUNES FIELD TRIP:
Today your child should have come home with a purple note about the Dunes trip which is June 3rd. If you have questions about any of the information, please call or email me! If you want to join us, a WISH form MUST be turned in by May 3rd! Many of you filled one out earlier this year. If you are unsure, I can fins out for you!
TRACK AND FIELD DAY
Track and Field Day is May 13th. Parents and other family members may come watch this fun event where the 8 - 5th grade classrooms compete against each other. Very fun!
Science: Tomorrow I will be picking up our tree frogs and hermit crabs and disgusting meal worms to feed the frogs for our Systems unit. Monday I will show students how to handle and care for these creatures- and what to do when one gets away from us. Fortunately, I haven't had a death since I accidentally dropped a couple dwarf frogs down the vents when I subbed in Mrs. Slotman's 4th grade a few years ago! Thankfully, tree frogs are too big for that to happen. 4 frogs and 4 crabs will be able to be adopted by the end of May. I will send home a page about needs and care along with a permission form later. If too many students want one, I will have a drawing.
Math:
We will take the test over our very short ratio and percents unit on Tuesday. We did the study guide today, reviewed it, and students were quite confident. We'll review on Monday and students should study the guide. Our last 2 units are measurement.
Reading:
At this time, we are reading A Long Way from Chicago. Set in the depression era of the 1930's, this is the story of 2 Chicago kids who go spend a week each summer with their very colorful grandmother in a tiny Illinois town. We have learned some history along the way- prohibition, the depression, gangsters of Chicago, the roles of men and women of that era, and about various items that people used. I'll read the sequel as a read aloud later.
Thursday was an anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. We read some articles about this event. We used our information to discuss who was at fault from the evidence and lessons learned from this tragedy. We'll finish this on Monday.
Writing:
We are reading and writing some poetry this week and next. We're focusing on imagery and word choice. I will send a note about this, but we would like to invite you to a Poetry Brunch on April 27th at 9:45. Students will read some of their poems and we will have a little brunch!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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