Champion News
February 23, 2015
READ-A-THON
Field Trips
Thank you so much to our parents who were able to attend the Wheeler Field trip! We could not have done it without you. Click on the link above to see just some of the pictures taken during the trip.
Our next FIELD TRIP is to CATHEDRAL CAVERNS. Permission slips are going home today. Please sign and return those by March 6th.
SchoolNet Testing and Review
So You Want to Make a 4?
Many students work extra hard in the classroom and go above and beyond what is assigned to the them. I have created an easier way for ALL students to make 4s in classwork. You may see them reading more at home so they can do book reports or take AR tests on more challenging material. I have also created a "4 Box". This box contains work that stretches what we are doing in class. For example, it may contains problem solving strategies in math, challenging fluency passages for reading, multiplication problems with two digits times two digits, long division, etc.
Ask your child if they are working on anything out of the 4 Box!
Scavenger Hunt
Valentine's Day
India Presentation
Service Learning
What else are we doing??????
Besides working on perimeter, area, fractions, telling time, prepositions, making inferences, and fact and opinion....... I know you see all of those types of papers in your child's graded papers going home. We have really been doing some great unit studies on:
Weathering: Presentations have been graded on Edmodo. Great job! Ask to see your child's PowerPoint and pictures. We went around campus to find pictures of erosion and hopefully can turn this into a service learning project once the weather has thawed.
Peaceful Leadership and Social Justice: Have you looked at child's work paragraphs on Martin Luther King Jr. and other social leaders? Ask them their thoughts on social injustice or dictatorship.......and we are still learning. I hope by the end of this unit, students will be able to define characteristics of a peaceful leader, exhibit those qualities and be able to share what they know in a form of their choice (writing a story, technology presentation, etc.)
Coding: That is right! We are learning to code! Students are learning not only to write code but the language of code. This isn't that fancy word coding that we tend to think about but the block style coding. We have our own classroom website and students practice at their own pace. Some lessons are unplugged so they get the idea behind the computer screen. Really exciting stuff that the kids love!
Violin Lessons: Yes! We are mixing some of the arts in as well. All third grade students are learning how to play. Click on the video below to see some of the excitement in the kids faces the first time they picked up a violin! Almost brought tears to my eyes.
Live Streaming: We went live streaming to Texas this week to watch a reenactment of George Washington explaining his life and his perspective on being the First American President. That was really cool to see and to explain the technology behind It to the students.
This week: Mr. Ray (one of our fabulous 5th grade teachers) will re-inact Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I Have a Dream Speech for Providence. We are asking students and teachers to dress their part as true citizens of the day.