Glass Fusing and a Week of Sunshine!

A Week in Review

April 28 - May 2

 

I have to start off this Friday newsletter with three shout-outs! One to Ms. Bena who put together our glass fusing extravaganza! Thanks to Kea (Merin) for volunteering her time to support students during the activity. Our students had an amazing time showing off their creativity. Their work should be back next week. The third shout-out goes to SUNSHINE! What a gorgeous week we've had! We worked hard, learned lots, and had fun - all while our minds were competing with thoughts of summer! We did it though and here is all that we've accomplished this week:

 

Virtue Awards:

Sahar has earned a Virtue Award this week for demonstrating the virtues of helpfulness and joyfulness. Sahar is always willing to help a classmate or teacher when they need it and she does it all with a smile!

 

Roman has earned a Virtue Award this week for demonstrating the virtues of responsibility and self-discipline. He has worked hard to complete and turn in his class work and homework on time!

 

 

 

 

Reading:

Our main selection in Journeys this week was Lewis and Clark, by R. Conrad Stein. We used the text to help us practice our target skill of identifying the author's purpose and our target strategy of monitoring and clarifying as we read.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing:

Cats or dogs? Which is the better pet? Students were challenged to select their favorite pet and write a persuasive essay to convince their reader why their pet is the better choice. We brainstormed, planned, organized, and wrote our rough drafts.

 

Math:

"Unit 8 Algebra, Functions, and Graphs" has kicked off! We studied the Order of Operations, expressions, situation and solution equations, and inequalities. We solved misleading word problems and challenged each other to prove why our answer was right.

 

 

 

Science:

Ms. Keenan and our students were hard at work in Science, as they observed isopods for their behaviors and body shapes. They designed and wrote an investigation to determine the amount of moisture the isopods prefer in soil.They also continued to grow their plants (barley, corn, peas, radish, clover) which is helping them learn the optimal environmental factors for plants to thrive.

 

 

 

Social Studies:

"Chapter 14: The Constitution" was wrapped up this week! We took the end-of-chapter assessment and went over it as a class. We are looking forward to our LAST chapter of study in our History Alive! curriculum. We will learn about the Bill of Rights.

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

Go Seahawks!

~Mrs. Hatlestad

Upcoming Events:

23 May - No School (1/2 day paid Professional Day for teachers)

26 May - No School in observance of Memorial Day

5 June - Band/Orchestra concert (school time 8:45am, evening event 7:30pm)

20 June - 5th Grade Graduation in the cafe (8:30am)

23 June - Last Day of School