WATCH OUT CAMP CAMPBELL,
HERE COMES CHARTER!
We are all so excited to let our outdoor science school begin! Just a quick reminder to get any mail you might want to send into the mailbox soon!
On Tuesday, we will leave at 8:30. If you are a driver, please pull up to the curb at 8:20 . . . middle school traffic should be clearing out at that time.
NUTRITION
In Nutrition, we finished watching Fed Up the movie. This is a great time to talk with your 6th grader about the added sugar in our diets and the impact it is having on our health. The nutrition class have also been studying nutrition labels so they can make educated decisions about what they are eating.
Here is the website: http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home
Here are some great questions to start conversations with your child.
How do you think you can improve your own diet?
What about the families diet?
Do you think the government should regulate or parents?
MATH AND SCIENCE UPDATE
We are finishing up our integer games. They are very creative and the students have enjoyed creating these projects. At Exhibition on Thursday night we hope you can come by room 106 and play your child's game.
On Monday students will be retaking a fifth grade benchmark assessment. We have been practicing skills and are hopeful that there will be a significant difference between there first test and this test. Students will be graded on improvement in test scores.
Today, students took their first science test. When we return from camp we will be delving into weather and climate standards. .The projects students created to answer their CURIOSITY QUESTIONS were fascinating. Some of these posters are hanging up around the room for your viewing at Exhibition.
Aaron's lego creations showing the trucks and rigs involved in drilling a well.
On Tuesday, we will leave at 8:30. If you are a driver, please pull up to the curb at 8:20 . . . middle school traffic should be clearing out at that time.
NUTRITION
In Nutrition, we finished watching Fed Up the movie. This is a great time to talk with your 6th grader about the added sugar in our diets and the impact it is having on our health. The nutrition class have also been studying nutrition labels so they can make educated decisions about what they are eating.
Here is the website: http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home
Here are some great questions to start conversations with your child.
How do you think you can improve your own diet?
What about the families diet?
Do you think the government should regulate or parents?
MATH AND SCIENCE UPDATE
We are finishing up our integer games. They are very creative and the students have enjoyed creating these projects. At Exhibition on Thursday night we hope you can come by room 106 and play your child's game.
On Monday students will be retaking a fifth grade benchmark assessment. We have been practicing skills and are hopeful that there will be a significant difference between there first test and this test. Students will be graded on improvement in test scores.
Today, students took their first science test. When we return from camp we will be delving into weather and climate standards. .The projects students created to answer their CURIOSITY QUESTIONS were fascinating. Some of these posters are hanging up around the room for your viewing at Exhibition.
Aaron's lego creations showing the trucks and rigs involved in drilling a well.
Language Arts and Social Studies
We have started working in our Writers' Notebooks. Our Writers' Notebooks are a place for students to record the many writing crafts and techniques that we will be learning and practicing this year, a place to draft assigned writing, and a place to free write on their own. I truly hope that by the end of the year each student will a notebook full of observations, lists, ideas, explorations, and writings.
We have continued with our Literature Circle meetings, and we are half way through this project. We will be having meeting #4 and #5 as well as presenting our findings (along with a product) after we return from science camp.
We have started working in our Writers' Notebooks. Our Writers' Notebooks are a place for students to record the many writing crafts and techniques that we will be learning and practicing this year, a place to draft assigned writing, and a place to free write on their own. I truly hope that by the end of the year each student will a notebook full of observations, lists, ideas, explorations, and writings.
We have continued with our Literature Circle meetings, and we are half way through this project. We will be having meeting #4 and #5 as well as presenting our findings (along with a product) after we return from science camp.
We are busy making connections between our class novel, Boy of the Painted Cave, the Hero's Journey, and the cave art we learned about in social studies with our very own classroom Secret Cavern. Be sure to stop by during Exhibition to see the students' work.
This week in social studies we wraped up chapter 4. Each student was responsible to go onto www.learntci.com and take the Reading Challenge for Chapter 4. This was due before class started on Wednesday. I am still waiting for some students to complete this. Each day that a student is late is minus three points. This Reading Challenge is in lieu of a classroom test and is scored as a test. Students can use their books for online challenges..
This week in social studies we wraped up chapter 4. Each student was responsible to go onto www.learntci.com and take the Reading Challenge for Chapter 4. This was due before class started on Wednesday. I am still waiting for some students to complete this. Each day that a student is late is minus three points. This Reading Challenge is in lieu of a classroom test and is scored as a test. Students can use their books for online challenges.
THANK YOUS ...
- To the whole Allen Family! The water cooler in room 106 has a second life! We have been fiddling with trying to fix the cold water lever for over two weeks. The Allen's neighbor fixed a plastic part for us and then Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. Gill worked to try and get it put in place. It was Mr.Allen, Zach and Jake that figured it out!
- To everyone who donated batteries for our science experiment! The Allen's also helped with supplying the wire!
- To Jessica for the delicious pumpkin bundt cake! Not only was it beautiful - it was super-duper yummy! Lots of teachers enjoyed a slice. Thank you.