The children did a great job this week. Despite the end of the year firmly sitting in their sight and having the last week off of school, the students have really focused this week and worked hard.
In reading this week, our focus was identifying the main ideas and details of nonfiction texts. We began this by reading about Shackleton's journey to Antarctica and continued by reading a book about animal camouflage. While reading this books we stopped after each section and identified what the author most wanted us to learn.
In science the students completed the second part of their blog posts on the national parks. The students researched the organisms that live in their respective parks and then wrote a brief passage about them. Be sure to follow the links to the right.
The students have really done well in math this year. As we make this final push towards June, we are going to be covering two things. First, the students who need to, will be spending time reviewing addition and subtraction with regrouping. We have also begun working on double digit multiplication.
Finally, there have been many permission slips and fees due this week. Please check to make sure you have submitted the following:
- Permission slip for the Walk-a-Thon
- Permission slip for field day
- Money for Walk-a-Thon t-shirts
- Money for zoo field trip
