WEEK OF APRIL 16th - 19th

DATES:

April 27............................... No School
May 1...................................Moments with Mom
May 3 ................................. Charlton Park Field Trip


The High School band and choir came Friday to sing and play for 5th graders and give them an idea of what it is all about.



Charlton park Field Trip: Please read the note about this field trip that was sent home today.
   
Puppets:   The puppets the students did for Mrs. Longshore's Art class look great! They read biographies and wrote a fake Facebook page to go with their puppets. These are located in the library if you are in and want to see them.


Poetry Brunch: The students practiced their presentations for Mr. Rienstra's class on Thursday in preparation for the Brunch. They are very excited and have worked hard. Public speaking is a real world skill. Students will do quite a bit of presenting to the class in middle school as well. I will have some pictures on the blog later.


Math:
Several students took the Chapter 10 test, "Measuring Solids" on Thursday. The rest of us are continuing to review converting measurements, a concept we also worked with in Chapter 9. The test will be Tuesday for the rest of the class. We will begin our unit covering graphs next week.

Reading: We continue with A Long Way from Chicago on Tuesday. We are discussing point of view and practicing inferencing and vocabulary skills. We are also working on determining importance and writing a summary. We'll continue next week and write a short cause and effect piece.

Writing:  
  Students have completed their poetry writing. We worked on metaphor, main idea, and parts of speech poems as well as alliteration and biography poems. I am hoping to have students create a digital scrapbook of their poems to put on their web pages at some point.

Science:   Classification continued this week. We then came to a consensus about what the basic needs for survival are: air, water, food, and shelter. We discussed behavioral and physical characteristics and how these characteristics help animals meet their basic survival needs.
 
Spelling:
This week's skill was synonyms. Next week's skill is homophones

Enjoy the weekend!

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