This week students worked on summarizing their research about the Southwest. We practiced strategies for writing effective summaries and emphasized putting them into our own words. Next week we will begin to turn the summaries of our research into iMovie presentations!
Time Capsule Reminder
The end of the year is fast approaching and with it will come the Time Capsule Closing Ceremony! All students should be working on their time capsule at home at this point. The week of the ceremony, students will bring their time capsules to school and we will add items to it here. Please let us know if you have any questions!
Math Workshop
We will be starting a project this week called "If the World Were a Village" based on a book with the same name. We will start the week by watching a video to go along with the book. The concept looks at taking the whole world's population and creating a village of 100 people. Within this population of 100 we will discover what fraction of the people would live in North America, the fraction of people in the village that would be children, the fraction of people who would not have enough food and water each day and many others. Throughout the week we will use this book to show decimals in picture form, write decimals, as well as compare and order decimals. Be sure to ask your child what he or she is learning throughout the week!
Just a reminder.....we have our Memorial Day Program on Friday at 9:00.
Have a great week!
Jen and Jaime
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