Update April 4th

We are in the final stretch!
It is going to be a busy short week and I hope everyone had a nice restful Spring Break to help prepare!

Important Dates:
April 14: International Fair: Stories of Water. Parent presentation and fair welcome will begin at 8am.
If you are interested in helping with preparations, please contact Brandi.

Curriculum Update:
Our focus has become the fair, all about the fair!

Reports: This week, we hope to review our rough drafts and polish them into finely crafted final drafts. We will read reports as mentor texts and examine structure, language usage, and grammar. We will review mechanics and do some peer editing.

Posters: The posters are almost finished. Our quest was to make them engaging, creative, and display our topic visually. We hope people can see what our topic is without having to read the title! We tried to summarize and synthesis our information to the most important facts so our writing is minimal to make a greater impact.

Hands-on: We are working with Debra Thomas, Jeffrey Sprague, Margaret Synan-Russel, and Jane Kenny-Norberg for hands on inspiration. Thinking of our audience from 4 year olds to adults, we want to have a hands on piece that is engaging and helps that audience understand our topic even better. We have some models, some games, a small experiment, and more.

Performance: For the parents, we are preparing a performance for the fair day. We have been working with Peter and will be joined by Habiba this week to create a poem and dance to welcome parents. Putting all of these pieces together is the focus of our mornings this week.

And then we have...
Math: Since our chances for integrating math within fair prep is limited, we will continue with our math lessons. We are starting Unit 7: Fractions. A parent letter will be sent home with the homework packet. This week should be a review of basic fraction concepts, pieces of a whole, and probability.