Mrs. Blust’s Webpage
|
4th Quarter News
I can ‘t believe that the year has flown by so
quickly! It has been wonderful!
Reading Do you have your
passport? Are you packed? This
quarter we will be reading stories from other lands. We will read stories from Japan and Korea
as well as others. This quarter, I
will also be reading aloud, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald
Dahl. Check out this website for more
about Wonka candy. http://www.wonka.com/ By the end of
the quarter, we will read the novel Sarah, Plain and Tall. Check out this
website about Sarah, Plain and Tall: www.kidsreads.com/funstuff/trivia/sarah-plain-triv.asp We will also try
really hard to meet our AR goals this quarter. Remember that starting early helps tremendously. The last day to get AR points for the 4th
quarter is May 16th. Writing How would you
describe a football game? Could you
persuade someone to do something?
This quarter we are going to work on descriptive paragraphs and
complete an exercise to help us better write a persuasive paragraph. For this exercise, we will be creating a
mini oil spill and then discussing the effects that it has on the
environment. We will then write
persuasive paragraphs to Senator Jim Bunning expressing our ideas. Learn more about Senator Bunning by
logging onto http://bunning.senate.gov/public/
Language Arts Smile! You’re
on Candid Camera! Well not really. J But this quarter we are going to delve
into adjectives. As part of our
study, we will be creating commercials, which we will videotape. Also on the agenda are prepositions, adverbs,
and conjunctions.
How many different shapes do you see on
your way to school? We are knee deep
in geometry. We will continue with
geometry this quarter. For more fun
with geometry, check this site out: http://www.gamequarium.com/geometry.html But, then we see what the probability is that we will be able to
get the correct answers as we move into data and probability, decimals and
fractions, and more difficult multiplication and division.
|
Social Studies We are
back! Out trip through Black History
was filled with many stops and many types of protests. Our showcase was a big hit with our
parents as well. Thanks to Mrs.
Barczak, Mrs. Bohman, and Mrs. Byarly for helping us with this unit. In music, we learned a civil rights song
which we performed as part of our play.
In art class, we made kente cloth from Ghana, Africa. In Library, we completed an author study
on Jerry Pinkney who is an award -winning author and illustrator. See pictures from our showcase below.
For this
quarter, we will be traveling the globe as we pair our reading selections and
to the countries from which they come.
We will be studying Japan, Korea, and Mexico. We will also discuss immigration and Ellis
Island. The three branches of
government and specifically state government will also be covered. Religion As we celebrate
Easter, we have seen the Glory of God.
This quarter, we will discuss Pentecost and spreading the Good
News. We will celebrate Mary with the
May Crowning on March 1st.
We will also make cards for the seminarians that we have been writing
to.
|
|||
|
|
|
Math
