Spring Break!

GATORFEST

Gatorfest is on Friday, April 8th from 5:00-8:00pm. Look for a pink sheet in your child's folder today. Hope everyone can attend! I told my class they HAVE to be there so they can dunk me in the dunking booth. Not sure what time I will have the pleasure of being dunked, but I will let them know. Hope it is warm!

Math- We will start Module 7 on Geometry and Word Problems.   Math Newsletter

Language Arts-We will be working with a passage called Skunk Cabbage and Dead Horse Arum Lily. We will work on text dependent writing and comparing these two stories.  

Science- We will wrap up our unit on Matter with a test on Wednesday. 

Social Studies- We continue learning about Antebellum Times in Chapter 7, Cotton is King. 

Have a great spring break! Safe travels if you are headed out of town!

Congratulations!

Congrats to Ethan! He earned his Reading Counts T-shirt with 250 points!! Who will be next? 

Balloon Poke

We explored the three states of matter today with a Balloon Poke. One Balloon was filled with water, one with gas, and one with a solid (ice). After the activity today your child should be able to explain the characteristics of each state of matter and the particles of a solid, liquid and gas. 

Gavin and Harrison work on poking the balloon with the solid inside. 

My favorite...Claire and Bennett poking the balloon with a liquid inside.

Anna and Sydney poking the balloon with gas inside. 

Next Week...

State Museum Field Study
We will be visiting the SC State Museum on April 15th. Your child has a blue permission slip and a white slip in their Friday folder. I'm only allowed to take 2 chaperones with our class. If you are interested in being a chaperone, please email me by Tuesday. Chaperones will ride the bus with us and will be in charge of leading a small group of students while we are at the museum. If I have more than 2 volunteers, I will draw from a hat and let you know if you were "picked". 


Float Frenzy

The students really enjoyed their root beer floats as a fun way to discuss states of matter and celebrate their great accomplishments with MAP testing!! 

Math- We will review adding, subtracting, comparing and ordering numbers as well as working on word problems. 

Language Arts- We will working with a reading passage called Skunk Cabbage. The students will write letters to local fire fighters thanking them for their service as part of the school's current service learning project. 

Social Studies- The students will have a Government test on Tuesday. We will start talking about Antebellum Time in Chapter 7. 

Science- We will wrap up our unit on Matter on Friday with a test. 

Wonderful Weather

The students enjoyed wonderful weather this afternoon while completing their class work! 

A Look at Next Week...

We will miss you!

Today was Trenton's last day. He will be missed dearly! 

Congrats, Anna and Gabe! 

They have both mastered their multiplication facts! Who will be next?  

Math- We will wrap up Module 6 with a test on Wednesday. The students will also take MAP Math on Thursday. 

Language Arts- The students will have MAP Reading on Tuesday.

Science- We will start our unit on Matter.

Social Studies- We continue learning about our State and National Government in Chapter 6. The students will have a test over this chapter on Friday. 

Stacking Oreos

The students enjoyed seeing how many Oreos they could stack this morning in math. Everyone took a turn trying to stack up to 15 cookies, we collected our data and then created a line plot with the information. They also did a great job of working in their Learning Clubs to come up with questions they could ask their classmates about the line plot. 

MollyJane 

Myles

Brooke's Line Plot and Questions

Gabe, Anna and Harrison Collaborating

Author Suzanne Selfors

The students really enjoyed Skyping with Suzanne Selfors today! A few of them have even gone to the media center today to check out other books written by her. 

Next Week...

Congrats to MollyJane for earning her Reading Counts shirt this week! So proud of her! Who will be next? She received it on Tuesday so I wasn't able to get a picture of her with it on. 

Skyping with Suzanne Selfors!!!

Hopefully your child has informed you that our class will be Skyping with the author of Smells Like Dog, a book we just finished in class. They loved the book and many students have moved on to other books in the same series. They have been brainstorming questions to ask her and are super excited! We will talk with her on Wednesday morning. Click on her name to go to her website...if you are interested. Suzanne Selfors

Math- We continue working with graphs. (bar, picture graphs and line plots) Math Newsletter 

Language Arts- We continue reading Revolutionary War on Wednesday. (Chapters 6-10) The students will have a quiz over these chapters on Friday. We will also take the District Writing Assessment on Monday. 

Science- We will wrap up landforms with a test on Thursday and will move into Matter. 

Social Studies- We continue learning about Government in Chapter 6.