Wednesday, May 18

We had a great morning in Room 80!  Daily 5 was smooth and full of busy little people reading and writing as Mrs. Zwack continued to work on individual reading assessments with students.  We spent a half hour today working on word work for the quiz tomorrow.  There is no school Friday so please study up this evening!

We read from our book Pax and had a very interesting talk about PTSD (in case your children mention it this evening).  One of the characters was telling Peter that she had been in the war and had some challenges after returning home.  We discussed how living in a military setting took many of your rights and choices away from you and why it was important to follow orders in battle situations. The students were very interested and offered many thoughtful comments and connections.  I was very proud of them.

We also had a short time to discuss changes for the coming year and asked each student to privately write down a few names of students they could work well with in their class next year.  They were not to discuss this withe at other afterward in order to spare hurt feelings.  We will soon be making class lists and want to make an effort to put someone they would enjoy working with in their class.

Well as Attar said, "I am getting a headache I think I have learned too much this afternoon!"  We did get through a lot.

In math we worked on comparing and ordering fractions. We used pattern blocks at first to help us with this activity. We also looked at different paper strips and then communicated our thinking and what we noticed when we compared the fractions.

In science, we first got to see Lexi's grandpa's solar powered pop can rover. It was really cool! I will try and get the video up on our blog tomorrow so you can show your parents.  We then ate our snack while we worked on some researching we are doing so we can design our wind turbines for Mars.  We learned about what makes a credible website to use as research. We will continue this tomorrow with Mrs. Gates.

Finally in dance. We were so good! Our warm up is the new song by Justin Timberlake.  We learned some new moves.  On Mrs. Bowles' Fitbit we did over 2000 steps! No wonder we were hot when we were done.

Things to Remember:
1.) We all will be going to RT Alderman on May 25 in the morning.  A parent letter and Acknowledgement and Consent form went home today. IT MUST BE BROUGHT BACK BY TUESDAY.
2.) All Soccer forms and Astrodome forms must be returned.
3.)  Please look at previous blog posts for EduClub Planting Day on May 28 and for the Trout Release

Question of the Day:

Tell us about one interesting thing that you learned or did today. Explain why it interested you.