Market Day!

A Week in Review

January 13 - 17

 

Happy Friday! We've accomplished a lot this week in our learning! Fractions are challenging us to think, our Social Studies chapter on slavery caused us to pause and reflect, and our Friday Market Day was a success! Read on to find out more about our week.

 

Virtue Awards:

Jaclyn and Anushri have earned a Virtue Award for demonstrating the virtues of helpfulness and cleanliness. They volunteered their recess time to clean all of the hot cocoa mugs from our "Cocoa and Current Events" session on Thursday! Thank you ladies!

 

Reading:

Our main selection in Journeys this week was LAFFF by Lensey Namioka. Students worked on the target skill, "story structure" and identified the elements of this science fiction story. Students also used the target strategy infer/predict to deepen their comprehension.

 

 

Writing:

We spent time this week looking at an example Heritage Essay that I wrote about my mom when she was ten. We reviewed proper interview protocol, drafted our essays, revised and edited them. I can't wait to read our students' writing!

 

 

 

 

 

Math:

Students worked hard this week, as our fraction unit became more challenging. Students created equivalent fractions, they learned to simplify and unsimplify, they also worked to add/subtract fractions with unlike denominators. We learned terms like Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple.

 

 

 

Science:

Ms. Keenan and our students used an environscape to  simulate how pollutants enter our water shed. Using a model, students "polluted" the neighborhood with things like antifreeze (green sprinkles), dog waste (chocolate sprinkles), and soap (red sprinkles). Then they "made it rain" with spray bottles and observed where all of the pollutants went when they were 'washed away'.

 

Social Studies:

Social Studies was tough this week, not because it was academically challenging, but because it was emotionally challenging. We finished reading Chapter 8: Facing Slavery and learned more about the harsh treatment that the West Africans were forced to endure during the European slave trade. We studied their journey from capture in West Africa, to the nightmare journey on ships during the Middle Passage, and to their life as slaves on plantations in America. It wasn't an easy chapter, but the students handled it with maturity and respect.

 

Remember there is no school on Monday, January 20th in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

22, 29 Jan and 10 Feb - Big Picture School Information Night
20 Jan - No School in observance of MLK Jr. Day

23 Jan - Odle Middle 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)