Happy Valentine's Day!

A Week in Review

February 10 - 14

 

 

Dear Families Room 210,

 

Happy Valentine's Day! We had a terrific day full of friendship, laughter, and of course learning! Yesterday, we had a presenter from the Beecher's Flagship Foundation visit our classroom. She led students through a series of activities designed to teach them how to be "food detectives" when label reading. We also worked together to make a big pot of homemade chili. Students should have brought the recipe home to you!

 

Here is what we've been up to this week:

 

 

Virtue Awards:

Nate has earned a Virtue Award for demonstrating the virtues of joyfulness and friendliness. Nate is friendly and kind to everyone he meets! His joyfulness is infectious and brightens our classroom!

 

Reading:

In Journey's this week our main selection was Dangerous Crossings by Stephen Krensky. This historical fiction story was set during the Revolutionary War and was centered around John Quincy Adams. Our target skill was cause and effect and our target strategy was visualize.

 

 

 

Writing:

For grammar this week, we worked on subject and object pronouns. We reviewed how subject pronouns are the subject of a sentence, while object pronouns are the "who" or "what" receiving the action in a sentence. 

 

 

 

Math:

We worked on deepening our understanding of volume, weight, and capacity. Students explored the relationship among metric and customary units of capacity and weight. We also solved problems involving metric and customary measures of capacity and weight.

 

 

 

Science:

Students investigated Kelsey Creek and selected three spots where they think the source of pollution might be coming from. They also sampled Kool-Aid in order to experience concentration and dilution first hand.

 

 

 

Social Studies:

We wrapped up Chapter 10 Growing Tensions between Britain and the Colonies. Students took their end-of-chapter assessment today! I'm so proud of their focus and hard work!

 

 

 

I hope that you have wonderful mid-winter break! May it be full of family fun and relaxation!

 

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

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

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