Water Bottles
Please remind your child to bring a water bottle. The fountains are shut off this year. Students are able to fill bottles though. They sure do enjoy having water on hot days after recess.
Student Computers
Students are coming to school with computers that are not charged or forgetting their computer altogether. If you would like your student to leave their computer at school and no longer take it home that is fine with me. Please be sure to send in the charger.
Reading
Our students will continue to explore various styles of writing: advertisements, poetry, emails, songs... Our main focus is to understand the text, including the author's purpose behind the writing. We will work on summarizing these different types of text this week; making sure we are able to pick out the most important parts.
Math
We will continue to work with graphs and practice with multi-step word problems with addition and subtraction through 1,000. Our class will incorporate graphs beyond the basic bar graph: line plots, pie graphs, pictographs, and Venn diagrams...
Science
We finished the first two lessons in our new unit last week. Ask your student about them. They are so much fun! In the first lesson, Seed Dispersal, students will learn how seeds must get away from their parent plant in order to survive. In the activity, Fly Your Own Seed, students create a model seed from paper. Then, they release these seeds to model how they disperse and observe if any seeds are able to escape the parent plant’s “Zone of Darkness” and survive. -Mystery Doug
In the second lesson, Water, Sunlight, and Plant Growth, students investigate how plants need water and sunlight to grow. In the two-part activity, Seeds — Light and Dark, students experiment with growing radish seeds in light and dark conditions. They plant them in cups, place half of the cups in sunlight, and put the other half in a dark container. Three to seven days later, students compare the seedlings and then watch what happens when all are placed in sunlight. -Mystery Doug
The Olympics!
