Updates and Notices:
* Save the Date: Grade 5 Invention Convention February 28th
Timeline:
Now - Build invention, make display following criteria we created in class, and practice your speech (about one minute).
2/26 - Projects due at school.
2/28 - Invention Convention!!!, MPR, 8:30- 2:00.
Friends and family: Please feel free to come by anytime and see all the inventions the fifth graders have created. This will be a fun day to celebrate the hard work the students have put into their projects.
* Free Magic Mountain Tickets
Students received a reading log on Friday. Please estimate dates and times read during the month of February and sign the logs. Students must have read at least 600 minutes and have this log turned in no later than Thursday 2/28 to earn the free MM ticket.
* Grade 4 Students:
4th graders need two 9 volt batteries to complete their circuit boards. Please have batteries here at school (apply masking tape and write your child's name on them) no later than Monday, March 11.What's Going On In Class:
Math:
Grade 4: Topic 15 - Area of Irregular Shapes; Topic 16 - Data and Graphing
Grade 5: Topic 15- Integers on a number line, Adding and Subtracting Negative Integers
Both Grades: Surface Area; Accelerated Math; Daily Fact Practice
Writing:
Writing with prepositions continued; Revising Stories for our hard-bound book.
Writing Homework:
The 5 paragraph essays look great! Great job, everyone! Students will receive feedback and scores on Monday.
This week students will write a three paragraph essay stating their opinions on the following question:
"Should the school day be extended for an hour and no homework assigned, or should the system remain as it is with students taking home work to complete independently (and leaving school at 2:30)?"
The following week these will be expanded into 5 paragraph essays. For those students typing, be sure to save your work.
Reading:
Close reading and answering text-based questions for:
Grade 4: By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischmann
Grade 5: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Art:
Thank you to Kai-ti Olsen for coming into our class and conducting an art class with room17's students! The finished products will be up for bid at this year's silent auction.
Science:
Grade 4: Life Science: Habitats and Ecosystems
Grade 5: Invention Convention Display lesson
Social Studies:
Wrap up of Unit 3
