Earth Day

The class has been involved in many Earth Day activities this week. The third, fourth and fifth grade led a school wide prayer service on Tuesday, planted flowers and cleaned the yard around the school with our buddies on Wednesday, and watched Disney's Earth movie on Thursday. We've also been talking in class about habitat destruction, what animals have to do to survive with the changes brought on by global warming, and ways we can help the planet. We'll be going to the Nature Museum on Wednesday to look at some more ideas of ways we can help the planet.

In class, we're almost done with our literature circles. Students are creating posters now to "advertise" their book. They also had to write down the theme for the book, and they came up with some amazing ideas-"you can create whatever you want if you really focus," "magic may or may not exist," "life is not always easy, you should appreciate life and not think negatively."

We're also writing adverb poems, using adverbs to describe a sport or game. We already wrote one as a class, and created a list of our favorite adverbs which includes disgustedly, fiercely, curiously, and extremely. Hopefully students will use these more in class.

In social studies, we are beginning to look at the Midwest-our home! Next week, we will have the first states test for this region. Students will bring home a study guide on Monday that has the states and capitols that they need to know labeled.

Museum of Science and Industry

We had a great field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry on March 25. With the 5th grade, we got a tour of the U-505 submarine, captured from Germany during World War II. Afterwards, we learned how submarines rise and sink then made our own periscopes.

Please make sure that the permission slips and money for our trip to watch Disney's new movie on the Earth are turned in before break. We also have a test next week on the Southeast.