Upcoming Events:
May 26-Grandparents and Special Friends Day 1:30-3:00
May 27-May 30-No School
June 3-Beach Day
June 6 (tentatively)-Publishers' Picnic
June 9-Field Day
June 10-Last Day of School, noon dismissal
A Horse's Tale has us visiting Mason City and the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s. Next we will head to Puyallup and the Japanese internment camps of the 1940s. This should make for an engaging conversation. The kids are working really hard on synonyms and antonyms with the word of the day.
In math, we have begun working on two and three digit numbers multiplied by a one digit number. The children learned the partial products method, which leads nicely into multiplying binomials in algebra (how many of you remember FOIL?). Basically, they will look at a problem like 46 x 6, write 46 in expanded notation (40 + 6), then multiply each of those parts by 6 and add the answers together. The kids are quite excited about this, so be sure to ask your Beacon about it. We will learn the traditional method for multiplying in the next week.
In writing, the students are peer and teacher conferencing with their persuasion paper. They had to write a 5 paragraph paper on why others should move to Washington state. There are some very good arguments for it. We will be typing these in the next week.
Has your student told you about their biome in science yet? Be sure to ask. They are creating and mapping their biome, making sure the scale of things is appropriate. We will be ready to unveil them the last week of school.
In social studies, the kids are making up questions for Jeopardy. It will be done on the computer, so it has taken some figuring on how to make it work. Once the questions (or should I say answers) are written out, it will look fabulous. The kids are very excited about it.
Check out these pictures from our pajama day. It was a great day to lounge around and read on our new bean bag chairs (thank you to everyone who donated them)!
