Auction Weekend - Pop! Goes Medina

A Week in Review

February 4 - 8

Dear Families in Room 210,

This week FLEW by, WOW! We were focused and worked hard all week and now only one more week until our Mid-winter Break!

Virtue Awards:
Gabi W. has earned a Virtues Award for showing EXCELLENCE and DILIGENCE in Social Studies. She went above and beyond the 1-paragraph direction to write a 5-paragraph description with excellent fluency and word choice.

Zach E. has earned a Virtues Award for showing RESPECT and KINDNESS. Zach is focused during instruction and works well his classmates. Thank you Zach for making Room 210 a wonderful place to learn.


Literacy:
We worked in our Journeys curriculum this week, using the realistic fiction story, Lunch Money by Andrew Clements. Students worked to use evidence from the text to infer the author's purpose. We concluded that with this particular text, the author was trying to get his readers to understand that writing comic strips is hard work.

Math:
Unit 4: Circles, Polygons, and Angles has come to an end! We worked this week on exploring line symmetry, rotational symmetry, circle graphs and estimating and measuring circumference. On Monday, students will take a practice test and STUDY, STUDY, STUDY for the end-of-unit assessment on Tuesday.



Science:
The UW was back in our classrooms this week as students finished up the assessment from Investigation 2. Students designed their own experiment using the previous investigation as a reference. We will analyze our work next week and discuss what makes an accurate investigation, a skill they'll need for our state test (the MSP) in May.

Social Studies:
Our Colonial Boston setting is up and on display in the 5th grade hall, along with the other 5th grade classes. Students analyzed their frieze and wrote descriptive words that came to mind. Using those descriptions, students wrote paragraphs about what it must have felt like to arrive, from England, in 1765.






Health:
We spilt into boys/girls classes this week as Mrs. Kaminoff and I took the girls and Mrs. Bethel/Ms. Keenan took the boys. Both classes were taught the same concepts, using the exact same materials (worksheets, SMARTboard slides, and videos). We studied the importance of good hygiene, the male and female reproductive systems, and pregnancy. We ended the week back in our own classroom learning about sexual exploitation.

Thank you for another great week! If you plan to be at the auction tomorrow night, I will see you there! A special thank you to Krystin Johnson (Audun) for coordinating our class auction project!

Have a wonderful weekend,

~Mrs. Hatlestad



Upcoming Events:

09-Feb - 2013 Medina Elementary PTA Auction - Pop! Goes Medina

13-Feb - Parent Information Night at Big Picture School, 7-8:30 p.m.

18-Feb - Mid-winter break begins

22-Feb - Mid-winter break ends