Peregrine Press
February 8-12
Schedule
Monday: Art; 4th Grade State Writing Test
Tuesday: Out and About (Solar System); 4th Grade State Writing Test
Wednesday: 4th Grade State Writing Test, PE
Thursday: Music; 4th Grade State Writing Test
Friday: Art; Body Changes Videos (boys separate from girls); Valentine's Day
Last Week
Last week we started two new units: Solar System and Mystery Classroom. Students started out the Solar System unit by working in groups to research a component of our solar system, created a small poster and presented to the class what they learned. The topics included moons, planets, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets and the sun. Then they started a small project on a planet of their choice. They are working alone or with a partner to create a travel brochure/poster to advertise things about the planet they are studying. This will feed into this week as well. They are learning about atmosphere, presence of rings and moons, composition of the planets and their orbits and rotations. Students also learned about the Big Bang on our Out and About where they participated in a very interesting timeline activity to show just how old the solar system is. The other part of the Out and About was more of an In and About where students made solar viewers to try and measure the distance we are from the sun. It was really interesting!
For Mystery Classroom students started documenting sunrise and sunset times for our town, and their mystery site. The students are in groups of 2 or 3 and will be keeping track of photoperiod (day length) lengths for their mystery site for the next few months. They will start to get geographical clues as well to try and determine where in the world the mystery site is. It is a challenging activity, but I know the students will really enjoy it!
Finally, students wrapped up their literacy projects, and I must say I was really impressed with how many students turned their projects in on time and did a nice job on the different components. Compared to the group literacy projects from earlier in the year, this was a big improvement in meeting deadlines for students.
This Week
We will be continuing our planet travel brochures this week and the students will do mini-presentations on them Tuesday or Wednesday. For our Out and About we will be looking at how to make a model of the Solar System.
The 4th graders will be participating in the State Writing Test Monday through Thursday, with make up times the following week for students that are absent. The 5th and 6th graders will stay back in class with me and work on different literacy activities depending on areas they need to improve upon. Students will also be collecting data for they mystery classroom this week.
Thursday students will have time to make valentine containers out of recycled/reusable materials and Friday students will be allowed to pass out Valentines. We will not be having "party" but students will simply have time to pass out their valentines and socialize for a little bit at the end of the day. Students do need to make valentines for everyone, or no one. We don't want anyone feeling left out. Friday we will also be showing the body changes videos. Boys will be separate from girls. If you have objections to this please let me know.
*No School Monday February 15th
*We will start Treasure Books Tuesday February 16th.
*Thanks again for the surprise shower on Thursday! To give you an update on my work status, I am planning on working as long as I can until I deliver. I will for sure be gone starting March 15th, but if things get too difficult for me, or I go into early labor I will leave when I need to. Becky is on board to start whenever I need her to, but she will for sure be taking over starting March 15th. Becky will be amazing!
February 8-12
Schedule
Monday: Art; 4th Grade State Writing Test
Tuesday: Out and About (Solar System); 4th Grade State Writing Test
Wednesday: 4th Grade State Writing Test, PE
Thursday: Music; 4th Grade State Writing Test
Friday: Art; Body Changes Videos (boys separate from girls); Valentine's Day
Last Week
Last week we started two new units: Solar System and Mystery Classroom. Students started out the Solar System unit by working in groups to research a component of our solar system, created a small poster and presented to the class what they learned. The topics included moons, planets, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets and the sun. Then they started a small project on a planet of their choice. They are working alone or with a partner to create a travel brochure/poster to advertise things about the planet they are studying. This will feed into this week as well. They are learning about atmosphere, presence of rings and moons, composition of the planets and their orbits and rotations. Students also learned about the Big Bang on our Out and About where they participated in a very interesting timeline activity to show just how old the solar system is. The other part of the Out and About was more of an In and About where students made solar viewers to try and measure the distance we are from the sun. It was really interesting!
For Mystery Classroom students started documenting sunrise and sunset times for our town, and their mystery site. The students are in groups of 2 or 3 and will be keeping track of photoperiod (day length) lengths for their mystery site for the next few months. They will start to get geographical clues as well to try and determine where in the world the mystery site is. It is a challenging activity, but I know the students will really enjoy it!
Finally, students wrapped up their literacy projects, and I must say I was really impressed with how many students turned their projects in on time and did a nice job on the different components. Compared to the group literacy projects from earlier in the year, this was a big improvement in meeting deadlines for students.
This Week
We will be continuing our planet travel brochures this week and the students will do mini-presentations on them Tuesday or Wednesday. For our Out and About we will be looking at how to make a model of the Solar System.
The 4th graders will be participating in the State Writing Test Monday through Thursday, with make up times the following week for students that are absent. The 5th and 6th graders will stay back in class with me and work on different literacy activities depending on areas they need to improve upon. Students will also be collecting data for they mystery classroom this week.
Thursday students will have time to make valentine containers out of recycled/reusable materials and Friday students will be allowed to pass out Valentines. We will not be having "party" but students will simply have time to pass out their valentines and socialize for a little bit at the end of the day. Students do need to make valentines for everyone, or no one. We don't want anyone feeling left out. Friday we will also be showing the body changes videos. Boys will be separate from girls. If you have objections to this please let me know.
*No School Monday February 15th
*We will start Treasure Books Tuesday February 16th.
*Thanks again for the surprise shower on Thursday! To give you an update on my work status, I am planning on working as long as I can until I deliver. I will for sure be gone starting March 15th, but if things get too difficult for me, or I go into early labor I will leave when I need to. Becky is on board to start whenever I need her to, but she will for sure be taking over starting March 15th. Becky will be amazing!
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