Monday PE | Tuesday Nana Cardoons-Ancient Feasting | Wednesday ART | Thursday Geek Out-if time permits | Friday -Talent Show -Buddy Lunch-pack lunch/snacks. |
- April 30th - Ancient cooking @ Nana Cardoon's, 12-3:20, sign up to volunteer
- May 3rd - Talent Show (9:45 District Office) and Art Show
- May 7th - Final Fernhill research day, 12-2, sign up to volunteer
- May 8th - No School Day of Action, organized by the Oregon Education Association
- May 21st -- Present our research to Clean Water Services
Homework
Students will have reading, math and spelling homework.
Merlins walked like Egyptians this past week. They experienced the many tasks a pharaoh had to balance in terms of keeping the gods happy and building their empire. We also did readings, watched a video and listened to a podcast to learn more about this civilization.
Ask, what were the major contributions of the Egyptians?
Talk about the different tasks you had to do for a successful empire.
Extend the learning to investigate the different causes of death of King Tut.
Literacy
We started two major projects this week--our last content related literature of the year with literature packet and a research project. I always enjoy seeing kids engrossed in books and find passion for doing research. We learned how to take notes and keep track of our sources. Kids will be asked to have a literature cited page with their research project (secret word).
Ask, what is the focus of your research project?
Talk about why it's important to have multiple sources for writing research.
Extend the learning to finding videos to watch as a family about your child's topic.
6th Grade Math
6th graders ran some laps to generate data we could analyze. In 20 minutes we saw how many times we could run around the field at Central School. With that data we collected mean, median, mode, range. We've learned about histograms and box-and-whisker plots to boot! We'll move into some algebra soon, so students feel confident with the upcoming math test in a few weeks.
Ask, what is the 5 number summary?
Talk about why someone might choose a specific measure of center to report.
Extend the learning to find how statistics are used in newspapers or newscasts.
5th Grade Math
Fifth graders tackled the order of operations this week (remember "Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally?") We learned strategies to simplify complex expressions and will keep up practicing this week as we build our own function robots.
Ask, what mnemonic trick did you invent to remember the order of operations? What does it stand for?
Talk about why this mathematical rule exists.
Teach your family the "power number" challenge. (Try 2, 4, 6, 9 --> 0 or invent your own!)