Peregrine Press
April 13-17
Schedule
Monday: Running Club
Tuesday: Out and About to Safeway (deliver Earth Day bags)
Wednesday: ELC Buddies and PE at Pacific
Thursday: Art; Practice State Testing
First of all I want to say a giant thank you to everyone for coming to Student-Led Conferences. We had a great turnout and the students were very engaged in sharing their work with their parents. They have a great deal to be proud of.
Last Week
For such a short week we sure accomplished a lot! The majority of the class presented their Independent Project Speeches. I was very pleased with the presenters and the audience. Great questions were asked, and sincere compliments were given. This was a great opportunity for me to see just how caring this class really is. They were so supportive of each other during all the speeches!
On Tuesday we walked over to Pacific to do some water color painting of nature in a spot on campus that has beautiful flowers and tree blossoms. The students painted some beautiful works! We also participated in Running Club, which was a bit disappointing this week. I rarely saw students running and many complained about the heat (funny that it was not even 70 degrees). I really need them to step up and start running again because we will be coordinating a fundraising run for the end of the year and I need them in good form. They know that they do not need to run the whole time, but they need to be really pushing themselves.
We checked out books from the City Library to read to our Buddies and I think that went really well. They are really starting to bond!
This Week
This week we will wrap up the last of the independent project speeches. We will then be moving into a short yo-yo unit to teach more of the scientific method and physics. It should be a fun unit because all of the students will get a yo-yo to use in class.
In preparation for Earth Day we will be decorating Safeway paper bags with messages for caring for our Earth. Then, for Out and About we will be delivering them to Safeway.
We will meet with our ELC buddies again and will hopefully get nice enough weather to take them on a nature walk to help identify signs of spring.
Later in the week we will be heading to the computer lab to practice all the state testing. The following week the 5th graders will take the State Science Test.
Becky will also start her unit that is titled "The Forest Grove Grid Project" that will incorporate photography, local mapping and possibly a treasure map. It is a very cool unit that I think the students will really enjoy! We will start with some Google Earth activities that will be sure to please. (The class seemed really excited about Google Earth when we did the world fair unit.)
*Thank you to those of you that donated pencils, we are still low though.
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