Week of May 9-12

*May 16th- Track and Field Day- 
THERE WILL NOT BE ANOTHER RAIN DATE SET FOR THIS.
*June 2nd- Dunes Field Trip  

*RAIN DATE:  June 3rd 


Thank you for joining us for the Poetry Brunch and for donating items for the brunch! We enjoyed sharing the poems!

TRACK AND FIELD DAY INFO:
A disappointing day on Friday with all the rain! I tried to make it a little less painful by playing a couple games and letting them move their desks wherever they wanted-and that worked out great because they came up with a nice room arrangement in 10 min!
 

HERE IS THE INFO AGAIN FOR THIS FRIDAY'S T & F.
* LUNCH: Students are already signed up for hot or cold lunch- check with your child about their decision on this.
    Parents: If you come that day, you will not be able to eat lunch with your child in the cafeteria at the middle school. Sorry! There is barely enough room for all 8 classes and teachers. You would have time to run home or eat in the bleachers, etc.
* SCHEDULE: There isn't a way for me to know exactly when your child will be in an event. Here is a rundown of the schedule. All students in my class have signed up for field and running events.

  9:30 - 12:30 - Mile Run and 400. Field Events begin for an hour  

                              and continue through morning preliminaries of

                              dashes (50, 60, 75 yd.), 100 low hurdles, and

                              800 meter relay.

  *12:30ish - LUNCH

  *1:15ish - 2:30 - Finals of the dashes, hurdles and 400 meter classroom  

                             relay.

                 - Ribbon presentations

                 - Trophy presentation

 *Dismissal. Please ask students to stay in bleachers until dismissed.

 

DUNES FIELD TRIP: 
ALL FORMS AND MONEY ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY, PLEASE.

PLEASE consider checking the donation section of the note. It would be things like pop, 2 bags of chips, cookies, etc.
- Also remember that if you are there for the afternoon events, the committee will need you to help out with lunch, games, clean-up. Thank you!

A note came home about this last week. This is a favorite field trip and a great way to finish off the elementary years and still focus on some curriculum as this ties into our systems science unit. We will need your assistance to make sure this field trip can happen!! Please read the note carefully. There are 4 items to return by May 16th in order for your child to attend this trip.

An FYI: If an adult wants to accompany us on the Dunes ride in the morning, we can only have parents. We really need to stay with 1 parent per household. There are only so many seats available for the entire group. You will receive more detailed information about this trip later.



HOMEWORK:    Math Homework is due Monday- some students may have other work that needs to be finished over the weekend and are responsible for this.


MATH:   
There are video tutorials and a practice activity for volume in the math tab!
    We have continued to review volume particularly compound volume. We are have been working on customary and metric units of length, capacity, mass, and weight. We will continue to review and will add in line plots this week. We have been working quite a lot on word problems. Last week we took the Delta math test. If your child still has concepts that were not passed, I will let you know this week.

READING -   
Click on the "Reading" tab for practice comprehension passages Non-fiction material mostly associated with our science unit and students' read to Self books are what we will focus on in reading for the remainder of the year, working on individual goals and practicing strategies. This week your child will be taking the SRI test, the Dibels test, and the Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment.
 
WRITING:                    
  We had a lesson about Pourqouis which are legends that tell why something came to be. For example, why do zebras have stripes? Why do giraffes have long necks? Students are in the planning process now and will begin drafting on Monday. We will also be writing an opinion piece this week.

SCIENCE:    This week students are beginning a short Project-based Learning activity that focuses on the behavioral and physical adaptation - but include other standards-which is the largest focus in this unit. They will work in pairs or individually (their choice) to create a new animal and include its classification, physical and behavioral characteristics, habitat, a learned behavior and inherited trait. They will be doing some simulations on the computer for review and ideas and will have resources to use. Wednesday there will be a quiz over the first 6 lessons.


SPELLING:
  Students took the lesson 30 test on Friday and it will come home on Monday. List 31 will go home Monday.  You can also find lists under the spelling tab. The skill is le, el, al, er, or, ar.

The proofreading part of the test is an important skill. If your child has been needing more practice with this, that is something that they have been working on in class.

If your child wants to play games/do practice tests, go to: Spelling City