FRIDAY, MARCH 1........................No School- Records Day
FRIDAY, MARCH 8........................Half day of school- Dismissal is at 11:40-no lunch
FIELD TRIP: Most students enjoyed the symphony. It is a great experience for them to be in the DeVos hall and to listen to and watch a professional orchestra play. The group does a great job of involving the kids- and there are hundreds of them there! The cafeteria at Calvin was a huge hit! Pizza, french fries, hot dogs, salad bar, soup, sundae bar, desserts, slushies... Visiting the campus was also interesting as most have never seen what this is like.Thank you to all our parents who volunteered their time!
My small camera wasn't working so I have no pictures! But we will be receiving some from Calvin, and I will post these to the blog then.
FEBRUARY BOOK PROJECT: Student need to have their books read by Feb. 20th and will begin the project in class. The project is making an iMovie trailer to persuade others to read their book.
Math: This week we continued review. Students will take the test over our first fraction unit on Friday, February 22nd. A study guide will be given on Wednesday. We will continue our unit in fraction operations.
Students are noticing that knowing math facts is increasingly helpful in the fractions units!
READING: We continue our Book Clubs. Our last day should be Friday. We will then begin our last genre unit, The Fighting Ground.
WRITING: Students are working on their plans and drafts for their biographies. They are sorting their information into appropriate categories in their plans and then will begin to write their biographies. We have discussed writing inviting introductions. Hopefully I will have a new projector bulb by Monday so I am able to model writing their info into a draft!
SCIENCE: We reviewed balanced and unbalanced forces this week and took a quiz over Lessons 1-4. We also began discussing how to measure force: The tool used is the spring scale and the unit of measure is called a Newton. Students conducted an investigation practicing measuring force and will expand on that lesson next week.
Have a great weekend!
Laura Blowers
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