A Week in Review
March 10 - 13
Happy Thursday! We had a short week, as there is no school tomorrow, but we worked hard!
Virtue Awards:
Isabelle has earned a Virtue Award for demonstrating the virtues of determination and excellence. Through her determination and preparation, she modeled excellence during our class Social Studies debate! Keep up the good work!
Reading:
In Journeys this week, our main selection in reading was James Forten (from Now Is Your Time!) by Walter Dean Myers. Our target skill was sequence of events and our target strategy was summarizing. Students worked to pull out the main ideas of the story, in order to write an effective summary.
Writing:
Students were introduced to their newest writing assignment this week: writing a research report! Students selected their own topic of interest and are busy reading more about it to gather facts for their report. In grammar, we focused on active and passive voice.
We practiced 3-digit by 3-digit multiplication this week and use the zeros and fives patterns to help us solve problems. We focused on how when multiplying by fives, you really have to pay closer attention to the zeros pattern.
Science:
Ms. Keenan and our students investigated different materials to see how well each one contained oil. They took detailed notes as they recorded their findings.
Social Studies:
Are you a loyalist or a patriot? We ended the week with our debate "Should the American Colonies Declare Independence or Not?" Our class did an impressive job, as they researched their historical figures viewpoint and backed their arguments up with sound reasoning. I was so proud of their enthusiasm and commitment to this project!
There is NO SCHOOL tomorrow, so I hope you have a fantastic long weekend!
Go Seahawks!
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Upcoming Events:
14 Mar - No School, Secondary Professional Development Day (Elem. non-paid)
3 Mar - 4 Apr - SCIENCE WEEK
3 Apr - Family Engineering Night 5-7pm in the gym
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)
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