Happy Friday,
We've been pretty busy lately. Here's the latest:
Social Studies
- We finished our Regions of Washington Unit
Science
- Started our ecosystems unit. Thanks for all your help in gathering 2 liter bottles! Also, big thanks to Christa Elin for cutting all those bottles
- Had an in class field trip from Science to Go on Food Webs
- Students built aquariums and terrariums and have been observing them in their science notebooks
- Animals arrived (mosquito fish, snails, crickets and isopods--pill bugs) and we'll put them in the aquariums and terrariums next week
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| Researching water plants in their small group, and preparing for their presentation.
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Math
- We've practiced multiplication facts, looked at the multiplication/division connection, calculated airline route distances, practiced problem solving procedures, worked with parentheses in number sentences, and worked with open sentences--solving variables like in algebra
- We'll both review and take the math test on Monday. Students have the sheet in their math tab and can do some work at home, but there will be in-class time to work on the review as well
Writing
- We had an author's chair celebration for our first unit of writing--Personal Narratives
- Students wrote some fabulous pieces. Please check them out digitally here!
- Brainstormed and wrote some haunted house stories
- We'll begin a new personal narrative writing unit next week, where we'll delve much deeper in to the elements of effective story writing. Personal Narratives are a great topic to use while we're learning these skills because students are knowledgeable experts on the events of their lives
Reading
- Ask your student what's been happening in our read aloud book, Gollywhopper Games. In the story, the main character, Gil, is faced with a dilemma. Should he accept a "wheelbarrow of cash" in return for quitting the games now that he's in the final five, or should he continue on. Ask your child what they would choose in his place and why. Also, why was he the only finalist offered all this cash?
- Made inferences by looking only at pictures and only at text clues in a PowerPoint presentation. Students then practiced in their own books
- Looked at the strategy of visualizing when we read
- Students worked in small groups to become experts on a piece of our science reading on elodea, duckweed, and algae. Students practiced finding evidence for a particular statement. They then presented their section and their learning to the class.
- If you're reading this part, here's a fun bonus: ask your student to write the word "ecosystem" on a sticky note or piece of paper. Have them bring it to Mr. Herzberg before Friday next week for 10 Grizzly Bucks! :)
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| Presenting their group's information on producers and consumers. |
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| More presentations--this one on Elodea, the plant on the screen behind them and also in our aquaria. |
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| Putting water plants in their aquaria--elodea, duckweed and algae. |
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| Gathering duckweed |
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| Live animals have arrived. The crickets are so interesting to watch! |
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| More live animals. This was the place to be before school started on Thursday! |
