Updates and announcements
We are in the home stretch of
the school year and looking towards our final assessments of the year! Students
are enjoying more creative assignments. The goal is to keep the activities full
of rigor and tap into their creative juices while curbing their excitement for
the school year to be over. This is especially true in fifth grade because they
are so excited to move on to middle school.
This week, I will be out on
Wednesday for Paul’s Doctoral graduation!
The Prep Tour is this Friday.
Students will eat their lunches with the prep students after their tour is over.
School lunches will be delivered to the prep side.
Next week is the Capitol Field
Trip!
Be on the lookout for Promotion
night information. It will be on Wednesday, May 22nd.
Our week in learning
Students have learned all of the idioms in our
curriculum! We may use this time to catch up on some that we missed.
Students will learn about the roots orthos and
dokein. There will be a routine roots quiz over these next week. The study
guide for roots 76-100 will be passed out on Wednesday and due on 5/15.
Students will recite the poem “A Bird Came Down the
Walk” during the week of 5/13.
In Literature, we will give class time for students
to work on their Across Five Aprils newspaper. Please refer to their packet
with the calendar of due dates for more information.
In Grammar, we will be working through the rest of
the Tall Tales unit. Students will peer and self edit, create a dedication
page, and write their final drafts with accompanying illustrations. We will
have an Author’s Tea on Friday after the Prep Tour on Friday where students
will read their Tall Tales to their peers while enjoying cookies and lemonade.
Please note that only students who have completed the assignment will
participate in this fun event.
We
are nearing our end of our anatomy studies! Students will take their endocrine
system test Monday, and begin their study of the nervous system on Tuesday.
This will be a quick unit; study guides for the nervous system will be passed
out Thursday, and will be due the 16th. The nervous system test will be the
17th.
This week in History, students
will be tested on their knowledge of Unit 11: Westward Expansion After the
Civil War. Study guides are due on Tuesday, when we will have a review day, and
the test will be Wednesday. Students will work on advertisement projects on
Monday, and present their projects on Thursday. This project will be given two
days in class (last Friday included), and does not need to be taken though,
though some students may opt to do this.
In
math, we will continue a unit on angles. This week, students will be finding
the unknown angles in parallelograms and trapezoids and taking their final test
on Friday. ALL workbook homework assignments will be half of every type of
problem. Students should complete all of the packets that are homework. Our
LAST math groups will be at the normal time this week, Wednesday, 8:00-9:15.
