Happy Friday Families,
Can you believe it is May and we are in the last few weeks of the 4th quarter? It seems like this year has just flown by.
Vista update: Please be on the lookout for communication through Vista in regards to opportunities to come to school to retrieve your child’s personal belongings. Since our 4th graders have materials in all three classroom, if you know of any specific items outside of school supplies that may be in one of our classrooms, such as coats, lunchboxes, headphones, etc., please reach out to that classroom teacher so we can do our best to get these with their rightful owner.
Social Studies: This week we continued comparing the three colonial regions. Students even participated in a digital escape room. This was an assignment that was supposed to be challenging but fun for students. It is an effort grade so if students were unable to complete it not to worry. We wrapped up the week with our weekly Google Meet where students participated in a review game of Kahoot. It was awesome to see everyone and have some fun reviewing! For Google Meets I wanted to clarify that the link in Google classroom will only work when I have joined the meet. This is a safety precaution installed by Google so the link, while visible at all times, will only work at the scheduled time. I am working to input all of the Social Studies grades by the end of the weekend like I did with Science last week.
Math: We began our final unit in 5th grade math, which is geometry. This week students practiced identifying, describing, and categorizing polygons. Next week we will move into identifying attributes of 3-D shapes and finding volume.
ELA: This week we began our novel study of Esperanza Rising, and I have been enjoying all of the positive feedback from students! We will be reading a chapter a day in order to finish by the end of the school year. Due to this amount of reading (about 13 pages a day), I am no longer assigning a reading log. Additionally, I am playing an audio recording of the first few pages of the chapter each day at the end of my video lesson to support students. Since students don’t have the physical book, I am attaching a scanned PDF of each chapter to the daily lessons. We will be reviewing all of our literature standards from the year through reader response questions, interactive worksheets, slides, writing assignments, and discussions on Google Meets.
Grand Canyon: Recently, Project Exploration shared the following information, “please know our refund turnaround has now gone from 7-14 days to 30-60 days”. She stated that the owner has changed the timing guarantee due to the sheer volume of requests and the heavily reduced staff, and that they are doing their absolute best to get refunds issued as quickly as possible.
Have a fantastic weekend!