Science Week!

A Week in Review

March 31 - April 4

 

Science week was a great success! We started and ended the week with Science assemblies and even Skyped with a professor from CalTech this week about Quantum Mechanics.Thank you to everyone that was able to make it to last night's Family Engineering Night. I was out sick, but I heard it was an amazing night!

 

 

Virtue Awards:

Sandy has earned a Virtue Award for displaying the virtues of orderliness and responsibility. Sandy works hard to stay organized and complete her assignments with quality work. She is ready for middle school!

 

 

 

 

 

Reading:

Our main selection in Journeys this week was The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. We used the text to practice our target skill theme and our target strategy infer/predict. Students worked hard to take their learning from Journeys and use it with their independent reading books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing:

We finished up our Research Reports this week! Our students were focused and enthusiastic about their self-selected topic and attention to ensuring they had five complete paragraphs and a bibliography. I look forward to reading them!

 

 

 

 

Math:

Division, division, division! We worked hard this week on long division. We divided with single and double digit divisors. We examined the remainders and interpreted them. We will continue with Unit 7 when we return from break.

 

 

 

 

 

Science:

Ms. Keenan and our students worked on their public service announcements for their Pollution Solution assignment. They worked in groups to create posters and PowerPoints to show the public how pollutants are harmful to our environment.

 

 

 

Social Studies:

Chapter 13: The Revolutionary War, was our lesson this week. We used the analogy tug-of-war with unbalanced team to describe what it was like for the colonists (the weaker team) fighting against the British (the stronger team). Ask your student how the game helped explain how the Americans won the Revolutionary War.

 

Thank you so much for another great week! I hope you have a restful and relaxing Spring Break!

 

 

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

7-11 Apr - No School, Spring Break
23 April - Explore World Culture Night (time TBA)

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

26 May - No School in observance of Memorial Day

23 June - 5th Grade Graduation (tentatively scheduled) cafe at 8:30am

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