DATES:

DATES:

May 11....................................Track and Field Day


Charlton Park Field Trip: The warmest day I've ever been on this trip! The kids were able to see what life was like in the pioneer days. The school is always a place that interests them. They were able to help make vegetable soup and some kids were able to churn butter (which we ate later) until it was too far done to continue. They used the iron and hand-washed some dishes- Looking at the pile of dishes, one of my girls asked, "How do you do this?" Thank goodness for the dishwasher!
I'll post pictures to the blog this weekend.

   
Math:
We have been working in Chapter 5 on graphing. Students finished their surveys and data tables. They then created their graphs online. We will also learned about mean, mode, range and median. We played a dice game and worked on three interactive activities on the laptops. We have been reviewing and will have the test on Tuesday.
We have been doing quite a lot of review along with our current unit.
HW: Students do have math homework due on Monday.


Reading: We began Book Clubs on Tuesday. Students had some options to choose from for novels and will be meeting with their group regularly for discussion as well as completing various comprehension activities.

Writing:  
Pourquois will be due on Wednesday. Students will have options as to how they want to present their final drafts of this- some are typing, doing iMovies, powerpoint books, and other ideas they have come up with. They will put these on their web pages.

Science:  
We're all parents to crabs and tree frogs! We will be observing our animals as part of our systems unit. Students will also be responsible for the care of them each day. We are working on being good observers, looking at behavioral and physical characteristics that help them survive.
 
Spelling:
This week's skill was double letters in words. Next week's skill is apostrophes.

1.	areas
2.	They're
3.	whole
4.	their
5.	temperatures
6.	always
7.	cover
8.	their
9.	won't
10.	Besides
11.	weather
12.	general
13.	it's
14.	wait
15.	until
16.	it's
17.	Because
18.	reasons
19.	difficult
20.	information
21.	there
22.	differences
23.	course
24.	fact
25.	its
26.	tail