Peregrine Press
May 11-15
Schedule
Monday: Math State Test; Running Club
Tuesday: Out and About Photography Through Forest Grove; All School Photo and All School Meeting; Math State Test
Wednesday: ELC Buddies; P.E.
Thursday: Art (painting murals in the hallway)
Friday: Homework Due
Last Week
Last week was packed full of fun, minus the swine flu scare! Due to the 2 missed days, we had a great deal of work to accomplish in a very short amount of time. The two main activities were the pill bug experiments and the Forest Grove Grid Project. The students conducted their own experiments on the pill bugs and were responsible for doing a complete scientific report explaining the whole scientific method. This took them through asking a question, doing research, writing a hypothesis, designing and executing the experiment, creating a table to record data, analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. All in all, it was a very complex activity but almost every single student seemed engaged and excited to do their experiments. Some of the pictures above, show the different experiments that were conducted. Some students created mazes to test intelligence, some tested food preferences, and some tested habitat preferences (among others).
Becky did a great activity on safe internet/web activity in preparation for the "ning" that she has created for the class. I will be emailing a letter to you from Becky, that all of you need to please read carefully because it explains how your students will be able to access the "ning" and all the security measures that are in place. The students also wrote up proposals for what they would like to photograph in Forest Grove in the upcoming weeks.
The not so fun activity that we also did this week was the Reading State Test. The students did great!
This Week
The main activities for this coming week will be the Forest Grove Grid Project, Math State Testing and Math Life. We will be doing the Math State Test Monday and Tuesday so please be sure to send your children prepared with good rest and healthy snacks. Tuesday our Out and About will be to head out into Forest Grove with our digital cameras to take photographs that will be posted on the "ning." The students will be taking the photographs, not the teachers. Tuesday will also be the All School Photo at Ash St. Field (we did this last year too) and an All School Meeting. Because those two things will cut into our Out and About time, we will probably head out another morning to continue taking photographs. We will attempt to finally head out on the Treasure Hunt we planned a few weeks ago with our ELC Buddies on Wednesday.
Finally, we will start a unit titled Math Life. We did this last year and it was a hit with the class. The main objectives for this unit are personal budgeting and a great deal of math calculations like multiplying decimals when computing interest rates and learning concepts like gross vs. net income. Each student will pull a "job" out of a hat that will tell them their hourly wage, they will later pull out a "family" that they will need to support. There will be days that they encounter a "financial struggle" such as a flat tire, or a dentist appointment. Through all of this they are building up this "character" and dealing with all the real life math that a person really encounters. They will have to find somewhere to live by looking in newspaper ads and they will have to create a personal budget that will cover their expenses and grocery bills.
Upcoming Events
May 25th No School, Memorial Day
June 1st Out and About to Seaside
June 4th Fundraising Run 10:00 at Lincoln Park
***I need parent volunteers to help with the Fun Run so please let me know if you can help.***
June 5th No School (report card prep day)
June 6th Overnight Camping Trip
June 11th Last Day of School
**Overnight camping trip update**
So, I have received a great deal of emails about parents willing to help out with the camping trip. I am very excited to hear that! I will send home a paper copy of the updated plan for the trip this week. For all of you parents that have offered up tents, I want all the tents we can get. I plan to let the children choose who they want in their tents (obviously only same gender in a tent) and if parents don't want to actually sleep in a tent with their child, the extra tents will come in handy.
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