Highlights from Week 33!

Mrs. Froberg here again. The final week of May had us starting several new units and finishing up old ones. Some highlights included students researching and completing a PowerPoint Presentation on a business or attraction in Washington State. Some of the topics included the Space Needle, Microsoft, Pike Place Market and Macklemore. Students will be presenting their PowerPoints to the class throughout the next few weeks.

On Friday, a first grade student from our buddy class, Olivia, read a picture book to the class that she had been practicing reading. Ms. Chin’s class also made acrostic poems for each of their buddy's names and gave it to them. Students enjoyed reading the adjectives their Little Buddies chose for their poems.

Reminders: 
-All enrichment classes are over after next week (June 6th).
-An important email regarding summer workbooks was sent out this week, as well as a handout to be returned to Ms. Staab if families are interested in having a workbook.
-Wednesday, June 4th there is a 2 hour early dismissal.
-Our End of the Year Class Picnic will be on Thursday, June 12th at Pratt Park! Please return the form that went home this week regarding who will be joining the picnic and what you plan to bring.

Highlights:

Writing: This week students each chose a local business that they like and began drafting a letter explaining what aspects they like and why it is a great spot to visit. They will continue to edit and publish the letters next week and then we will mail them off to the businesses!

Math: We started a new math unit on measurement this week. We have covered customary units of measurement for length, capacity and weight. As part of the lesson on length, the whole class walked around the school yard until we had walked for one mile to help students understand how far a mile actually is! We will move onto metric units next week. The other two math groups completed their unit test this week and will be moving onto new units next week.

Science: This week students learned about how strings can make sounds and they made model harps and guitars using peg boards. Next week we will begin a project where each student will make their own instrument. If you have any extra shoe or cereal boxes lying around, we would love to use them for our upcoming project! 

Two of our very own musicians playing their instruments for us! Great job!

Reading: We finished up our art project for our historical fiction unit and began our new unit on Greek Mythology. We watched a video on Thursday that gave us an overview of the gods and goddesses as well as brainstormed questions that we have about Greek Mythology. On Friday, we read about King Midas and the Golden Touch. We will continue to read more myths in the upcoming weeks.