It's a busy week at Hoover! The Hoover Post Office is operational this week (and next), so come on in and send some letters. We also have a really neat assembly on Friday with Wildlife Safari Ambassadors coming to visit Hoover. In addition there are OBOB battles and our classroom Valentine's celebration (get those mailboxes ready!)
Spelling: This week and next week there will be no spelling. I am giving students time to write letters in the morning to send through the Hoover Post Office. However, I will expect students to write 2-3 thoughtful letters throughout the week in exchange for no spelling work. Writing This week in writing students are working on editing and revising their fiction stories. Next week students will work on publishing these stories in the form of a picture book. Reading This week we continue to explore the fiction narrative genre and story elements. This week we will read examples of myths. Science This week we continue to explore "how the earth changes". Particularly, this week we will investigate why some volcanoes explode, while others do not. 4-H Wildlife Stewards Summit You may have heard that the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Summit is being hosted at Hoover this year on May 3rd. This is a very exciting event that I want to encourage all students to participate in. To participate students form teams (2-4) members, complete a natural science related project or experiment in our school natural area/habitat. Finally, groups present their project as a poster or oral presentation. (There is also an individual option to present art from a field journal or videography). There are a numbers of requirements to complete the project and I am including some information here. I plan to devote an hour of class time per week to this project. I would love in class parent volunteers to support student projects and it would be great to have parents support student teams as they work on their projects outside of school.
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