A Week in Review
May 20 - 24
Dear Families in Room 210,
The Band and Orchestra concerts were awesome! The students and teachers have been working hard all year, it was evident in the wonderful concerts! It is hard to believe that there are only 3 1/2 weeks of school left! Wow! This year has flown by and we still have so much to do and learn. Here's what we've been up to this week:
Virtue Awards:
Khushaal K. has earned a Virtue Award for demonstrating the virtues of self-discipline and responsibility. Khushaal is always focused, on task, and hardworking! He is an excellent role model for his peers.
Reading:
We read a biography this week, James Forten by Walter Dean Myers. We learned through our reading that James Forten was a young African American who fought on the side of the patriots during the Revolutionary War. We used the sequence of events target skill and summarizing strategy to help us with comprehension.
Writing:
We worked in pairs to revise and edit our persuasive essays. We focused on word choice and sentence fluency and most importantly ensuring that we have sound arguments with plenty of supporting details. Students are now working on final drafts and individual teacher conferences.
Math:
What a challenging week! We learned how to divide with fractions, it was tricky!! While we learned the "formula" for dividing fractions, we also worked hard to understand WHY it works. We also practiced our fraction skills: adding, subtracting, and multiplying!
Science:
The UW students were back filming our Day 6 observation of our water tolerance investigation. Students were surprised to learn that some of our plants actually grew in the "dry" environment! The "wet" environment had the most amount of plants that had grown. We measured our tallest plants and so far it appears that the barley is consistently tolerating all of the environments.
Social Studies:
In our History Alive! textbooks, we read chapter 11 in order to gain more information on the reasons colonists chose to be patriots or loyalists. We took extensive notes on our graphic organizers. These notes will be essential in helping us to plan, organize and write our final writing assessment of the year.
5th Grade Play:
Rehearsals have begun for our 5th grade play, Reviver: Philadelphia. This year we have two plays. Our class has combined with Mrs. Kaminoff's class to put on a show about the Constitution, while Mrs. Bethel and Ms. Keenan's classes have combined to put on a show about the 13 colonies. The performances will be June 12 (evening, time TBD) and June 14 (day, time TBD).
Garbology:
The City of Bellevue presented an interactive workshop to us on Wednesday. Students reviewed the 4 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink), examined different everyday items and how long they last in a landfill, and tested their learning with an ending activity where they sorted items into categories: trash, recycle, reuse, compost. They were very engaged and respectful to Ms. Franzen, our presenter!
Remember there is NO SCHOOL on MONDAY in observance of Memorial Day.
Thank you for another great week of learning! With ALL of the MSP tests behind us, we can get back to focusing on the important learning that takes place in our classroom each and every day.
Enjoy your three-day weekend,
~Mrs. Hatlestad
27-May-No School in observance of Memorial Day
04-June- Community Thank You Breakfast 7:30-8:30
07-June-Medina Elementary Family Night at Safeco Field
12-June 5th Grade Play (evening, time to be determined)
14-June 5th Grade Play (day, time to be determined)
17-June - Medina Family Lunch BBQ: 5th grade at 12:10-1:10
18-June - End of Year
All-School Assembly 8:30-9:30am
18-June - Field Day 12:15-2:15pm
19-June-5th Grade GRADUATION and Last Day of School (school ends at 10:10)Looking Ahead:
03-September - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL as 6th GRADERS!
23 Dec-03 Jan, 2014 - Winter Break
17-21, 2014 Feb - Mid-Winter Break
7-11, 2014 April - Spring Break
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