I would like to congratulate our chess team on making it to the District Championship ant the Administrative Service Center Board room on Tuesday, March 7th.  Our A team ended up taking 3rd place.  They lost a close match to Howe Elementary in the semi-finals on criteria and then we beat Becker Elementary in the constellation finals to take third.  Our B team ended up taking 2nd place.  They beat Howe Elementary in the semi-finals and then they lost to Lindbergh in the finals.  I thought our team played really well and showed great sportsmanship.  I am very proud of our team and they should be too!!  NICE JOB, Howard!!

During the start of the week all of my 4th and 5th grade students will take a pre-test on the skeletal system or the muscular system.  The 4th graders will take the skeletal system test and the 5th graders will take the muscular system test.  Once they all take the pre-test, I will have the students practice the different bones and muscles in a variety of ways for the next few weeks during class.  I will then have them take a post-text to see how many they have correctly learned from the practice.

This week during class I will continue to work on tennis/badminton with the 3rd-5th grade classes and the parachute with the Kindergarten-2nd grade classes.

This week, all of my 3rd-5th grade classes will be starting my tennis/badminton unit.  This will be a short unit, that will only last two and half weeks.  My Kindergarten-2nd grade classes will start my parachute unit this week.  This will also be a short unit that will only last two weeks.