Highlights from Week 32!

Mrs. Froberg here! As we head into the long weekend, we had another jam packed week with several fun activities. Ms. Staab’s friend Jennie (who is in her 3rd year at UW Law School) conducted a mock voting session on Friday, which had the students learning about what it means to be a citizen, as well discussing several initiatives and propositions that have been proposed in Washington over the last few years. Students voted on each of the eight initiatives and were given the results of their votes. Jennie will be coming back to conduct a mock trial where students will take on the roles of judge, prosecutor, jury, etc. It should be fun!

We finished our last standardized test for the year with MAP Math and Reading tests this past week. Students have worked hard all year and it was great to finish those off! 

Next week students will be choosing a topic about Washington state and making a PowerPoint presentation to share with the class. Each student will be doing their own research and applying what they have learnt in PowerPoint this year. Next week we will also start charting the data on what foods they ate from their homework this past week. Then we will begin some fun nutrition games and lessons.

Lastly, there will be no homework for the month of June! Therefore, there will be no more homework club and students will be free to enjoy the sunny weather.

Highlights:

Writing: Students wrote book reviews on a book they’ve read and we will be publishing the reviews to put in the books soon. Also, students wrote letters as if they were one of their characters in their historical fiction book writing to another character. The letters were fabulous and on Tuesday, they will be sharing their letters with their book clubs.

Math: The 4th grade math group took their unit test on Thursday. We will start our new unit on Measurement next week. Those that did not take their math test last week will be taking their unit test on Thursday.

Science: We had an audiologist come and talk on Monday about how the human ears works. She brought an otoscope to look into students ears and showed it on a small TV. Students loved seeing the inside of their ears, including the ear wax and hairs! There were many squeals and some had to cover their eyes! 

Students also made a reed instrument out of a straws and experimented making different sounds.

Reading: We wrapped up our Historical Fiction unit with an artistic response. Each student is creating a 3D scene from their books, using a tunnel book. We will have a gallery walk next week to have students show off their work.

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend!