Multiage News
March 17, 2013
What We’ve Been Up
To
We have wrapped up
our science unit, begun our Colony Project in social studies, have a great
start on our Country Research Paper and have moved on to converting fractions,
decimals and percents in math. Super
busy—thanks for helping us keep up!
This Week
READING This
week we will continue to work on the skill of finding the main idea in a
selection and looking for details to support that main idea. Many of our book clubs will be presenting
this week. We are continuing to Work
towards our reading requirements of the quarter: traditional literature (perhaps a folk tale,
fairy tale collection), science fiction and/ or fantasy, nonfiction and a few
choice. Ask your child if he/she has met
his/her requirement.
WRITING We
spent several days learning how to effectively take notes on a nonfiction topic
(our countries). We are now in the
process of drafting – and eventually editing and revising. Finally we will publish our pieces. After Spring Break, students may bring in
something to help them tell their classmates about their countries. For example, someone who researched Canada
could bring in some Canadian coins or a maple leaf. A Japanese researcher may bring in origami
paper or a kimono. Food from that
country may also be considered. Watch
for more info after Spring Break.
MATH We
have been working hard on converting fractions, decimals and percents. We will be locating fractions and decimals on
a number line. Friday we will have a
short quiz.
SCIENCE We
are taking a short break and will hit Energy and Magnetism in April.
SS Your
child chose a location to set up a “pretend colony”. The colony is either in New England, Middle
Colonies area or the South. Based on our
learnings, students have many decisions to make in order for their colonies to
be successful. For example, what type of
government should be set up, what type of products and economy will be present,
and the culture of the land. The last
step will be to actually plot out the layout of the community on graph
paper.
Some Notes
Our Book Swap is this
Friday. Please bring up to 5 gently used
books on Thursday.
Running Club is every
Monday/Friday that it does not rain.
No new spelling for
our Spelling Club until after Spring Break.
We will miss our
fifth graders while they are gone at camp next week. I plan to use the week to catch up on 4th
grade skills with our 4th graders.
I will be driving out to the camp at some point next week to visit my
favorite fifths. Have a wonderful
time!! Fingers crossed for warmer
weather…
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