5/9 Mount Hood Chapel
5/11 Mount Hood Climb Service Day: 4th grade will be pulling ivy and planting bulbs on campus
5/12 Parent Meeting about Camp Grey 8-9
5/16 Moving up to 5th Grade Parent Meeting
June 1-3 Camp Grey--4th grade Overnight trip
This week:
Reading:
We continue to read Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (about Laos refugees moving to Alabama, USA.)
Small group book clubs will begin this week.
Writing:
We continue to take time to write poetry and focus is on line breaks, figurative language, and interesting adjectives. Students will be asked to try out the process solo for homework this week and I am interested n what they will bring in! I am still working on getting a local poet to come in a talk to us about her experience writing poetry!
Math:
Overall, students did an outstanding job on the Unit 7 assessment. We need to continue to work on multi-digit multiplication and division. We will breeze through our area and perimeter unit since we have already reviewed most content with Tracy in January/February. We hope to do a couple more projects and then the Unit 8 assessment mid month.
Peace Games:
Peace Games are bringing a lot of attention to the importance of social niceties in the classroom, workplace and in peace making. Countries have a little of 33 problems currently affecting their world. They have to think not only of what they want but what might be best for their country and the countries around them. As a class we continue to try to battle "negative talk" in the classroom as well as open communication. Talking with our peers about our feelings before they are overwhelming. Last week, we engaged in a lot of discussion about if apologies were always needed or if acknowledging other people's feelings was enough when discourse happened! Needless to say, it has been a lot of social dialogue lately as well as a lot of personal growth. I continue to be encouraged and impressed by the individual growth in the classroom.
