Hello everyone! I apologize for the late blog post this week. The Living Wax Museum was a huge success. I was so impressed with all of the students. They did so well! Some of the students asked to not be filled and I respected that. The videos of students that wanted to be filmed and pictures from around the room can be found by clicking
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzqSx5k_NnLBLTliT3dJdnFVejA?usp=sharing
M-STEP with the 5th grade is in full swing so we have had guests in our room. The other 4th graders have been with us while their classmates test. Our class will start testing the first week of May. We are looking for donations of individually wrapped mint Lifesavers or a generic equivalent. We are also looking for juice boxes/small bottles of water and individually wrapped snack bars/healthy snacks for 24 students x 6. We have 4 NWEA tests and at least 2 sessions of M-STEP. If you would like to donate, please comment here, on Dojo or let me know! Thanks in advance for helping make testing as easy on the students as possible. Students also need to be finishing up their grade level Khan Academy Missions. Most students are around 80% and need to keep working until they finish their grade level mission.
This week:
Spelling- /y/ to /ied/-
accompanied, implied, scurried, varied, replied, studied, hurried, notified, worried, applied
evaporation, molecules, states of matter, condensation, freezing, melting
Math-3rd-We are learning to partition shapes and shade in for a given fraction.
4th-We are working on adding fractions with common denominators. Many students are still struggling with long division and hitting their goals on Khan Academy. If you are able to work with your student on long division at home, they will highly benefit from the practice.
Writing-We are working on writing poetry and will be creating a poetry flipbook.
Social Studies-3rd-Mrs. Parana
4th-We are still working on the responsibilities of Americans to maintain freedoms.
Science-3rd-Mrs. Parana
4th-We are learning about the human body systems
Reading-We are working on cause and effect relationships with events that happen in narrative texts. Students are also working on backing up and re-reading to locate answers to questions.
Have a great week!