Hi All:
Welcome back from spring break! If you can believe it, we only have nine weeks left of fifth grade. Based on how our schedule looks at this point, I believe those weeks will prove to be very busy. To wit, here are the most important dates to calendar: Important Dates to Remember
It's Not Easy Being Green: Our Project Based Learning Unit (Involving Science, Some Social Studies, and English Language Arts) Two weeks ago, as part of our project on climate change, our class participated in the global youth climate strike. Students made signs and then picketed for about 90 minutes in front of Southmoor, on Monaco, where they received a great deal of support from people driving by. It was a lot of fun, and exciting for the kids in our class to see the power of their work beyond the classroom. We are almost done with our unit on climate change, and students are working in their groups to finalize their group reports, some components of which they completed individually. For the final piece, which we will work on this week and on our days off of CMAS, kids will be writing individual letters to congresspeople in order to highlight and spread the word about the most important elements of their findings. Coming Up: Human Body Systems As soon as we are done with CMAS, we are going to be moving into our last and most involved science unit of the year: human body systems. We are going to be covering most human body systems throughout this unit, and we also will continue our trend of integrating research and writing with the science content. Our human body systems unit will end with Family Life towards the end of the year, about which more information will be forthcoming The Know Brainer Event On April 27, our class, or most of our class, is going to participate in a Know Brainer academic trivia event at Hamilton Middle School. This event has been organized by the optimist club which also helps us with our BUG awards. We will field three teams of five to seven kids, at a cost of $25 per team, and hold several practice sessions over the next month. We currently have raised $40 to pay for our three teams, and we need another $35. Eight students have paid $5, so if seven more bring in that same amount, we will be good to go! Math After this week, which will be an on off week, we will resume a normal math schedule. In both of our math sections, we will be moving onto next-level content for the remainder of the year. My section has one more geometry unit in our Investigations curriculum, and after that we will be using sixth and seventh grade curricula from EngageNY and i-Ready. New material will involve computations similar to those we have covered this year with more complex numbers, operations, and algebraic functions. As always, please reach out to me if you have any questions! Thank you for all you do!
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