Happenings from the week of March 18- March 22

Happenings from the week of March 18- March 22

UPCOMING DATES:

Wed. March 27.......BEACH DAY!
Wed. March 27.......All bookmarks for reading month due
Wed. March 27.......Box Tops Pizza Party for 5th grade!
Friday May 3.........Charlton Field Trip (note came home yesterday)
Friday May 10......Track and Field Day (note soon-volunteers needed)
Tuesday May 14......Field Trip to Request Foods (no parents needed)
Friday May 31........Dunes Field Trip (info in April)
   
 Brainstormers Assembly:  Austin Rudolph was one of the 5 students to have his/her story chosen to be made into a stage play! Congratulations! He went up and sat in the Author's Chair while the play was performed. His story was about him and Scotty (Kyle Heyerman) building a snowman that comes to life. It was so fun for our class! 

              


Puberty: We have gone through all of the lessons and watched the videos on Friday. Mr. Tebo came on and showed the videos to the boys for us and we thank him for that. You may want to ask your child what questions/concerns he/she has while it is fresh in the mind. Next week I will do the very short and basic HIV/AIDS lesson.
 

MARCH MADNESS! We watched the MI State game during recess this week- it was LOUD! I let them talk me into watching some of the Duke game yesterday during recess, too.

           

Box Tops Winners!  5^th grade won the Box Tops challenge! Thank you for your assistance with this. We will have a pizza party on March 27^th

BEACH DAY! Celebrate Spring with Beach Day on March 27^th.

Options: Wear beach attire, sunglasses, bring a beach towel, etc. It needs to fit in your locker.

 
Math: We have been working on adding/subtracting fractions using place value and "quick pictures" which is drawing the problem using base 10 blocks. Students are also working on finding a pattern and using a table to problem solve. The test will be Wednesday.   

READING: We continued our discussion of the Fighting Ground as well as the online digital "bulletin board" to teach each other further about this war. It will incorporate social studies, reading, and writing curriculum. This week students read their articles and watched their videos to prepare for presenting next week. The class loves The Fighting Ground and I almost get booed when we have to stop at the end of a  section!

WRITING:   We talked about and practiced alliteration since we will be using alliteration in our newspaper article headlines. We read a few articles as examples preparing for writing our own. Students chose a person to interview about a topic and wrote their questions. I am reviewing them so they are able to either face-to-face or email interview someone. Students will write this into an article to publish in an online format. Then they will choose one other topic to write another article. We will be discussing leads, using quotation marks to quote others, and alliteration, and how the type of voice used in reporting is different from a story.

SCIENCE: Students tested planes in the gym on Monday. We reviewed how lift, thrust, drag, and gravity affects the flight. This week we also discussed static electricity as a non-contact and contact force because of negative and positive charges. We began a discussion on roller coaster physics and the kids practiced designing a roller coaster online. We will wrap that up on Monday.

Science Test:  I will begin review next week. We will review the week after spring break as well in order to be well-prepared.Test on Monday, April 22.

Spelling: We will take the lesson 22 spelling test on Monday. No spelling next week because of the 3 day week.