Upcoming this week:
- Wednesday is the first day of the month and also our next walk and bike to school day. -Turn in pennies for patients boxes on Tuesday the 28th. -Thursday, March 2nd, is Read Across America Day, in honor of Dr. Seuss's Birthday. We will have a guest reader from the Rotary Club visiting our class. This is also considered a spirit day, so Dr. Seuss dress up will be in fashion on Thursday! -School wide Post Office continues through this week. Students are really loving this authentic writing experience, as well as the opportunity to act as the Postal Service for the rest of the school. We thank the HPTO for all the supplies! -This Friday, March 3rd, is Extra Early Release at 12:40. Upcoming In March: - March 9th is our family science night. (6:30-8:30) -March 16th is the 4/5 arts nights. All students should plan to be in attendance. (6:30-7:30) -On Wednesday, March 22nd, Anna Marie will be hosting a parent information session about state testing. -March 14th- Pi Day spirit Day! -March 27th to the 31st is spring break. Reading This week, in reading, students continue working in their book groups. Most groups are nearing the end of novel studies. We also continue our study of non-fiction text structures and making meaning from informational text. In reading we also continue to review academic vocabulary and practice answering questions modeled after test questions. This increases students' comfort with the format of questions and language they will see on state testing. Book commercial reading and note taking is also on going. Science Last week students finished their digital blueprints of their seismic retrofit capitol buildings. This week they will begin construction of their models. Social Studies This week we continue our study of the Westward movement and Oregon history. Writing This week students will be drafting their country reports. During drafting we will focus on organizing information, creating interesting introductions and developing strong endings.
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Welcome to another 5 day week, full of Valentine's Day, a guest speaker, an assembly and most of our normally scheduled scholastic activities. A few important notes:
Tuesday, the 14th, will be our Valentine's Day celebration (from 10:45-11:45). I am excited to see the creative mailboxes students have told me are in the works. Some students have let me know that they plan to bring healthy red foods for our party, even if you haven't let me know you can still feel free to send something in. A class list also went home last week for students who are preparing to hand out Valentines. Typing practice: Wow this year has really been flying by and it occurs to me that I haven't shared some useful information. With state tests a little over two months away one thing that students can do to feel more confident while testing is practice their keyboarding skills. 1. Go to the Hoover computer lab website 2. Go to Typing Web. 3. Student username is their firstname.lastname 4. Password is: Hoover We practice on this website occasionally at school, but there is not a lot of time in the schedule for this. Science This week we are very lucky to have Dr. Wang coming to speak with our class about his civil engineering research. Until then we will be busy making blueprints and brainstorming in our teams about how to make an earthquake safe Oregon Capitol building this week. Reading It was dazzling to watch students' most recent current events presentation. There were many thoughtful responses to the news stories they had studied and many creative uses of presentation technology. Students will present on one more current event this year (due in May). They will have class time to work on it and it will not be a homework assignment. This time students may choose to work on some of it at home. Students will also prepare one more book commercial this year, due April 17th. Again, they will have class time to work on it. (Though, I will highly recommend that they read their book at home in order to read it in a reasonable amount of time). I will be reviewing this assignment with students on Monday, but I am also including the assignment document at the bottom of this post. In reading this week we will continue our study of non-fiction text as we begin our study of Oregon history and regions. Writing: In writing we continue to examine examples of non-fiction text and begin writing our non-fiction pieces on countries.
It's shaping up to be a wet week outside, but we'll have plenty of rays of sunshine in the classroom this week:
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