Special Notes –
*Reminder: Glacier Creek 5th grade parent
night is this coming Tuesday, May 21st 6:30 – 7:30 PM in the school
cafetorium. This is a great night for
information regarding middle school student development, their school program,
basic school contact information, and parent questions.
* Time to return books to the school and
classroom library. Please help your
child look for books that need to be handed in, I am missing a lot of books.
* For
graduation, students are being asked to wear their tie-dye shirt or West
Middleton shirt. An invitation will be
going home soon.
*
New on our website: a video of the egg drop build, student reading plan survey, video of students
working on biomes.
* In class talent show will be
next Friday. Unfortunately parents are
not invited as we are doing it for our 1st grade buddies as well as
two kindergarten classes. I will post a
video of it later.
*
The final week of our box tops and food drive is next week. Please send in anything you can donate.
* I have some dates for you to put
on your calendars:, Tangle of the Titles May 21st 1 PM, Talent Show Friday, May 24th
1:45 PM, No school Monday, May 27th, Orchestra performance Wednesday, May 29th
2 PM, Lock Out June 5th all day, 5th Grade
Graduation June 7th 1:30 PM in lunch room.
Math – The final unit of
the year will be wrapped up next week with the test scheduled For Wednesday. It has been wonderful to see the mathematical
concepts taught throughout the year come together to form new meaning. After
that we will hopefully start the teapot project.
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.
Most of our plants are also growing quite a bit, these students have a
green thumb for sure.
Social Studies – We also started our simulation, “How a Bill
becomes A Law,” with students acting as both concerned citizens and the government. President Billy got to nominate 3 Supreme
Court Judges and we now start to draft our bills. The students also played constitutional games
on ICivics.org – fantastic website that is free and open to play – wonderful
fun.
Writing – Great blogging this week on Innovation
day. A new challenge will be posted
later today. 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.
We started our first draft of memoir yesterday and will continue working
with it until the end.
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