Friday, March 21, 2014

Busy Minion News - Week of March 21



This Week  We got back into our regular routine this week.  We read the story “A Walk in the Desert,” and learned many facts about the desert biome.  We finished Unit 4 in Math – and mostly did a great job on the assessment on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers.  We also spent the week preparing for our Beatles concert.   WOW, what a great job they did!  A huge “Thank You” to Mr. Hazelton for organizing another wonderful, memorable concert!  We also got all set up on Google drive to start publishing our Super Hero stories and we made an amazing amount of progress on them!  We also found time to finish our animal classification projects and learn about NH state government in preparation for our field trip on Monday.  Friday Clubs also started today – and those will be 4 great weeks of FUN!

Next Week  We will start the week with our field trip to the NH State House and NH History Museum on Monday.  Remember to dress neatly, ‘professionally,’ and be ready to meet important NH officials!  Manners are a must!  In Literacy next week, we will work on a Picturing Writing story.  (Truth is…I can’t decide if they will be aurora borealis (northern lights in Alaska) stories or desert stories.  I’ll put up a “Survey” on the blog and you can vote.  Most votes wins and voting will end Sunday night!)   We will begin working on multiplying fractions with Unit 5 in Math and we should be able to get through those skills pretty quickly!  We will continue working on publishing our Super Hero stories.  We will also be starting to study life cycles in Science.