A Tour of Colonial Williamsburg

A Week in Review

January 21 - 24

 

Happy Friday! We may have had a 4-day week, but we packed a lot of learning into it! Here is what we've been up to:

 

Virtue Awards:

Anjali has earned a Virtue Award for demonstrating the virtues of excellence and reliability. Anjali is always focused during instruction, seeking ways to go above and beyond, and pushing herself to achieve her goals. Keep up the amazing work!

 

 

 

Reading:

Our main selection in Journeys this week was from a read aloud we read earlier in the year, "The Dog Newspaper" from Five Pages A Day by Peg Kehret. Rereading this excerpt allowed us to deepen our comprehension even more as we used the target skill fact and opinion and the target strategy analyze/evaluate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing:

We worked to revise our parent and grandparent essays this week. I'm so impressed with how seriously students are taking their Heritage Project and the effort they're putting forth. Reading the essays has been amazing! I love the stories they are choosing to share about their family.

 

Math:

Wow! It was a jam-packed week in Math! We continued our fraction learning as we added/subtracted fractions with unlike denominators, had more practice with simplifying our answers, and began understanding how fractions and decimals are equivalent. We used our background knowledge of pennies to dollars to help make this concept more understandable.

 

 

 

Science:

Ms. Keenan and our students learned that their new challenge for this Science Unit is "Pollution Solution". Students will examine water quality and how it impacts us. They were introduced to "Russell" a water quality investigator and learned what his job entails. Students will help Russell investigate suspcious looking water in a nearby creek.

 

Social Studies:

In Chapter 9: Life in Colonial Williamsburg, students took a "walking tour" in order to learn about daily life in colonial Virginia. They visited six stations, each represented an actual site at Williamsburg. At each station, students examined written and visual information and completed a colonial task.

 

 

As you can see, we had a busy week - full of learning and FUN!

 

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

29 Jan and 10 Feb - Big Picture School Information Night

27 Jan - No School, Elementary Teachers Professional Development Day

14 Feb - International School Lottery Application Due

17-21 Feb - No School, Mid-Winter Break

14 Mar - No School, Secondary Professional Development Day (Elem. non-paid)

7-11 Apr - No School, Spring Break

23 May - No School, 1/2 day paid Professional Day

26 May - No School in observance of Memorial Day

23June - Last Day of School (unless additional snow days occur)