St. Patrick's Day Week!

A Week in Review

March 17 - March 21

 

Spring is here and we couldn't be more excited! Our students were extremely focused and hardworking this week. Here is what we've been up to:

 

Virtue Awards:

John and Trevor have earned Virtue Awards for demonstrating the virtues of courage and service. John and Trevor addressed the Bellevue Schools Foundation a their series luncheon this past Thursday. They spoke about our STEM learning at Medina to over 100 people!

 

 

 

Reading:

Our main selection in Journeys this week was We Were There, Too! by Phillip Hoose. This book aligned with our Social Studies learning and provided even more background knowledge about the Revolutionary War. Our target skill was to compare and contrast and our target strategy was monitor and clarify.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing:

We continued to gather research for our research report. We also began using the graphic organizers in our research packets to help us when drafting our reports. Students worked to make sure they were putting what they learned in their own words and extrapolating the main ideas from their research.

 

Math:

In math this week, we multiplied decimals times decimals and worked to understand how multiplying by tenths, hundredths, and thousandths is similar to multiplying by tens, hundreds, and thousands. We even used our target skill from Reading to help us compare and contrast multiplying by decimals and multiplying by whole numbers.

 

 

 

Science:

Ms. Keenan and our students completed their Engineering Challenge this week! Students worked to clean up an oil spill with the lowest cost and least environmental impact. Then they revised their plan to focus on the least environmental impact.

 

 

 

Social Studies:

Students took their end-of-trimester assessment this week. I know they were pleased that the study sheet provided for them was harder than the actual test! They all felt prepared and worked very hard!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

31 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)