Room 26 Weekly News
September 25, 2017
Announcements
It was wonderful to see so many grandparents in Room 26 on Friday! I am grateful for all of the support our students have from their families! What an amazing community we have here at LCM!
We have an upcoming field trip to see a Young People's Concert at the San Diego Symphony on October 20, 2017. Our PTO has generously donated money to cover part of the cost for this amazing arts experience for our 5th graders. Please look for a letter and permission slip to come home this week.
A couple of things that I think I have forgotten to mention this year: (1) Wednesdays are "college" days. Please encourage your children to wear a college t-shirt on Wednesdays; and (2) Fridays are "school spirit" days. Please encourage your children to wear their LCM Spirit Wear on Fridays.
Academic Updates
Math
Language Arts
Social Studies
We are beginning Chapter 2 of Social Studies. This unit focuses on Native American tribes of the United States. Your students will be working on an inquiry research project (all done in class) about Native American tribes in particular geographic regions of the United States. They will be working with a small group to put together a slideshow presentation about their regions, and will present it to the class. We had a technology lesson last week about how to use the tools in Google Slides (very similar to Powerpoint) to create slideshows, insert images, insert text boxes, change backgrounds, change fonts, manipulate images/text, etc. This week, we are fortunate to have one of the Technology Teachers on Special Assignment for the district coming to teach our class about conduction internet research. We will be able to put these practice into place for our Native American projects.
On October 6, the 5th grade will be having "Native American Day." All 5th grade students will rotate through all the different teacher's classrooms to do activities related to the customs and cultures of various Native American tribes. I would appreciate some help with this day if there are 3-4 of you available to help out that morning. It will be from 9:00-11:00 or so. Please let me know if you are free that morning to help out.
Science
Specials
Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - N/A
Wednesday - P.E.
Thursday - Music and Library
Friday - N/A