Weekly Update-May 24th

Dear Families,

We are a buzz of activity in room 27.  Read on to find out what we've been up to!

-Alites

ABC Countdown

By Kyra, Daniel, and Caitlin

The entire school is participating in the ABC countdown to the last day of school. Each letter of the alphabet is a school wide activity. For example, we wore pink to school to prevent bullying.  We read books with our buddies and wore blue for the letter B. For the letter D we celebrated with donuts Furthermore, we had Exercise Day, Fancy Day and Green Day.  Everyone wore green to school and played board games. On Monday we will be having Hat Day. On Tuesday, we will be having ices in school.  We have been having a fun time and we can’t wait for more to come.

 

                   Immigration Investigation

                     By Sakina, Emilie, and Steven

In class we have been working on our heritage projects. This week, we decorated our heritage binder/scrapbook. We also started working on a paper heart project. We each got 2 paper hearts. We decorated one heart with images representing America. The other heart is decorated with images representing where your family is from. Then we combined them! You will see them on Heritage Day hanging in our classroom.  We also made family crests. We wrote our family motto and our last names on the crests. On Friday, May 31st we will be celebrating all our hard work with our families during the Heritage Luncheon.  We can't wait!

Book Club

By Brian, Adam, and Trevor

In class, we are continuing book clubs. We get 3 post-it notes every week, and we have to write a question or an observation about the book to share with our book club. We discuss the book every Friday, and write key points about our discussion on our I-Pad. We also write things to focus on in the next few chapters. We all are excited to see how our books turn out!

Blue Man Group

By Rachel, Madeline and Becca

This week we went on a 5^th grade field trip to see Blue Man Group. Everyone had a lot of fun! One of the things they did was put paint on a drum and then beat the drum so the paint would come up and look like fire. They didn’t talk at all during the entire show which made it really cool because they only used their emotions and body language to communicate. Also, they had these huge iphones called GiPads. The GiPads had really cool apps like making you look transparent through the phone. Finally, they played different kinds of instruments and had a lot of dance parties with toilet paper. We all had a lot of fun on this trip and hope we can go back soon!

Math Quest

By Austin, Chris and Jared

Math Quest is a challenging problem solving math game where teams work together to answer complex word problems.  It is really fun!  The teams are the Mathappers, Fab+five, Brainy Brunch and the Funky Factors.  The Funky Factors are in first place…but not by a lot.  Anybody can win!  We get fate cards that make the game all the more exciting.  Our favorite fate card was when we had to balance a book on our head.  Every week we focus on a different problem solving skill like guess and check or making a table.  We are learning and having fun at the same time.