Math – The final unit of
the year will be wrapped up next week with the test scheduled for Friday. It has been wonderful to see the mathematical
concepts taught throughout the year come together to form new meaning. We
will also do the end of year test but not until after Memorial Day.
Science – We were busy
building our egg drop contraptions, check out the video of the build on our
website. A video from the actual egg
drop will be recorded and posted on our website as well. As always the ingenuity of the students was
wonderful and especially those that realized midway through the build that
their device would fail and then changed it.
Social Studies – Students
and I have met to discuss their first drafts; what growth in writing we have
seen. A common problem is the amount of
details needed for the report, either too much or too little, so we are working
on finding a balance. Depending on how
many students I get to confer with, the deadline may be moved to give everybody
more time. We also started our
simulation, “How a Bill becomes A Law,” with students acting as both concerned
citizens and the Chamber of Congress. It
definitely deepens their understanding of why the Constitution is such a big
deal.
Reading – We use reading time
to work on scripts and social studies.
Writing – Great blogging this week on what a principal
does. Next week’s challenge will be
posted later today and comes from a Journaling prompt we did two weeks
ago. I hope to have students print out all of
their kidblog entries and create a journal of their year, as their accounts
will be deleted come August.
Special Notes –
* Please make sure to send in the two photos
needed for the 5th grade graduation bulletin board by Monday.
* All of our box tops have been going to Mr. Getz,
we hear there is a very good chance he gets a pie in the face, wahoo!
* Doodle for Google winner was announced today,
unfortunately none of our students won, however, it was a 2nd grader
from Wisconsin
who did. It can be seen today on Google’s
homepage.
* We will finish Junior Achievement and
Guidance next week, where has the year gone?
* For graduation, students are
being asked to wear their tie-dye shirt or West Middleton shirt. A note is going home today with more information.
*
New on our website: a couple of pictures from the talent show taken by
Mrs. Hyland, a video of the egg drop build, top 10 free educational game
websites for kids, biome project information, as well as a list of different
reading summer programs that have incentives for the kids.
* Technology party will be next Friday
after lunch. Students are solely responsible
for whatever tech device they bring in. For
more information see our website.
* I have some dates for you to put
on your calendars:, Junior Achievement Tuesday, May 22nd 1:10 PM (final
one), Technology Party Friday, May 25th 1:00 PM, No school Monday,
May 28th , Sub in the afternoon Wednesday, May 30th,
Lock Out Wednesday, June 6th, 5th grade graduation
Friday, June 8th 1:30 PM.
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