April 17, 2015

Happy Easter! Even though many of us just celebrate Easter on Easter Sunday, it is actually a season that lasts for 50 days. Many students in the school today did something fun in recognition of this. We created poems and made pictures of animals with our buddies!

Students have been doing a great job on their literature circles, and I've enjoyed listening to their discussions, especially the follow-up questions they ask each other. In writing, we're almost done with our five paragraph essays about Chicago. We'll be writing a few poems in class next, since April is poetry month, before moving on to our final research paper.

In math, we'll be working on geometry until the end of the year. Right now, students are learning how to measure and draw angles. We did a fun scavenger hunt yesterday for angles, and next week we'll learn how to decompose angles before taking our test on Thursday. We also have a test coming up in science. It'll either by Tuesday, April 28 or Wednesday, April 29. The students in science have been engineers lately and are designing a circuit to go inside of a shoebox room. I've been emphasizing that many designs take a lot of trial and error before finding the one that works best, and students are doing a great job of being persistent.

We also have a field trip coming up! We'll be going to the Museum of Science and Industry on Monday, April 27. The permission slip for that is coming home today.