A Week in Review
April 1 - 5
Dear Families in Room 210,
Thank you for an AMAZING Heritage Night! Wow! It was an enjoyable evening, filled with delicious food, excellent presentations, and a fun family evening. I was so impressed with how poised and confident the students were as they presented their Heritage Project and shared what they learned. I know that a lot of work went into this project and I am so grateful for all that you have done to ensure your student's success. Each and every student not only grew as a writer and public speaker, they now have a family keepsake, one that they will cherish for years to come. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Virtue Awards:
Safa A. has earned a Virtues Award for demonstrating the virtues of self-discipline and excellence. Safa continually looks for ways to go above and beyond the expectations. She is focused and hardworking!
Ethan T. has earned a Virtues Award for demonstrating the virtue of reliability. Ethan consistently completes his work on time, shows respect to his peers and teachers, and understands the importance of hard work. Ethan, you are an excellent role model!
Literacy:
We began having individual goal setting conferences. Students worked with me to analyze their reading and writing assessment scores in order to set developmentally appropriate goals. I look forward to finishing these conferences when we return from Spring Break! We also worked on using context clues around unknown words to figure out its meaning, particularly focusing on multiple-meaning words that can sometimes cause road blocks in our comprehension.
Math:
Unit 7 Multiplication and Division with Whole Numbers and Decimals has come to an END! Student worked this week to practice the strategies they learned as
Science:
We read from our Environments Science Stories book this week. Students learned about terrestrial environments around the world and how they are divided into subgroups. We will begin our final science unit of the year, Environments, when we return from break!
Social Studies:
Taxes?!? Soldiers?!? Yes, we have immersed ourselves fully into Colonial Boston! The British Parliament has taxed our sugar, paper, and now we are being forced to follow the Quartering Act (where we have to provide food and lodging to the British soldiers). We are outraged! We had a protest march (in the office) we carried signs and chanted, "No taxation without representation".
In order for students to truly understand the impact the taxes had on the colonists, in our classroom they are being taxed with class dollars to: use the bathroom, the stapler, and for any paper they use.
Again, THANK YOU for attending Heritage Night and celebrating your student's hard work! Thank you for the delicious food and all of the help cleaning up, it went so quickly and smoothly, I truly appreciated it! I have to give a special thank you to our fabulous room mom's Deena (Isabelle) and Karyn (Kate) for the extra help they provided to make Heritage Night a huge success. Also, to the entire O'Hara family (Kate) for being the first to arrive to help set-up and the last to leave after cleaning up, THANK YOU.
Enjoy Spring Break, the students truly deserve it – they have worked hard!!
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Upcoming Events:
15-April - Spring session of
Smart with Art begins
16-April - Spring session of
Math4Love begins
17-April - Talent Show Tryout
Sign-Ups posted
17-April - Second Annual
Medina Elementary Spelling Bee, 6:00pm
19-April - Medina Elementary
Family Movie Night, doors open 6:00pm
23-April - Spring session of
Lego Club begins
23-April - Talent Show
Tryouts, 2:45pm
02-May - Talent Show Dress
Rehearsal, 2:45pm
03-May - Talent Show, 6:00pm
13-May - Math 5th Grade MSP
14-May - 5th Grade Field Trip: Seattle Children's Theater, Crash
15-May - Reading 5th Grade MSP
20-May- Science 5th Grade MSP
07-June - Medina Elementary Family Night at Safeco Field
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