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FIFTH
GRADE – INVENTION MUSEUM – The fifth graders will be presenting
their inventions to the University City Community on Tuesday, May 14 from 6:00
– 7:00 at Pershing School. This is part
of a district wide GATE Showcase for all fifth graders. Please feel free to come and see what is
happening in the other schools and at Brittany Woods.
BOOK
ORDERS: The last book order of the year is available. The order forms are due by May 10. If you’d like to order on line go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs our code is: GL7HN. There is a fun extra form this month: Heroes
of Mythology. On line, you can find this
listed on a fly out under the “Place an Order” tab. Please enter orders by midnight on Friday,
May 10.
CLASSROOM
LIBRARY: Please
help your children to keep track of the books they sign out from the GATE
Classroom Library. As we get to the end
of the year, I’ll be looking to try and get them all back.
FINAL
CLASSES:
Kindergarten – May 30
First Grade – May 29
Second Grade – May 28
Third Grade – May 29
Fourth Grade – June 3
Fifth Grade – May 29
Kindergarten
- Enrichment & GATE - Thursdays
Yesterday’s classes were cancelled due to the
Storytelling / Police Dept / Fire Station field trip. I did get a few minutes in with the afternoon
group, but we’ll follow up on those activities next week.
Last week the morning group shared their
inventions for transporting acorns up a tree.
Your children are amazing. They had great ideas for making that job much
easier on the squirrels. Their work will
come home next week along with all the papers from the Isabel the Inventor
unit. Our next character is Sybil the
Scientist but we will start that unit when we return in August.
First
Grade – Wednesday Mornings
We were back to our regular schedule this week. We finished our timeline which the students
took back to class to aid in writing their autobiographies. I am hearing wonderful reports from the
teachers about the writing activity. We
also began writing stories that can be used to make a maze like the one we did
last week. Next week we’ll continue our
stories.
Second Grade – Tuesday Mornings
Second grade did not meet this week. Next week we’ll be finishing our candy box research
as well as our Patterns in Multiples work that they started two weeks ago. We are working on explaining our thinking in
complete, clear sentences.
Third
Grade – Tuesday Afternoons
Due to the music show this week we had a shortened class. We worked on just the magic squares. I am hoping everyone will have a magic square
to challenge their classmates when they return to class on May 7.
Fourth Grade – Monday Afternoons
We had an exciting time last week with Brian Feld’s
demonstration of Sketch Up. I hope some
of you have downloaded the program for the children to practice with. I have secured the COW (Computer on Wheels)
for May 20 and June 3. I am working on
having the children finish their buildings before we leave in June, however, we’ll
be designing the city layout when we return in August. See you all on Monday, May 2.
Fifth Grade – Wednesday Afternoons
The Invention Museum was a huge hit.
We had so many classes lined up that at one point I was turning away
students. We were able to get everyone
back and I heard many positive comments from the teachers.
IMPORTANT DATE: Tuesday, May 14 we will have our class because the
students will be visiting BWMS on Wed., May 15.
This is also our District GATE Showcase evening.
Next week we are going to begin a mini challenges unit. The students will be given non-conventional
materials and a task to build a structure that can stand on its own. We’ll also being doing team word challenges
and category challenges. Each week your
child should come home with ideas to challenge you as they’ve been challenged
in class.
