Rockhopper Weekly Reminders
June 10 - June 14
Mark Your Calendars:
- Students should return overdue books to the library promptly.
- Monday, June 10- Friday, June 14: Fifth grade Human Growth and Development
- Tuesday 6/11 & Thursday 6/13 from 8:15-9:00 a.m.: Literature Circles (Rooms 22 & 23)
- Tuesday, June 11th: Lunch on the Lawn
- Friday, June 14th: Math DVDs due back to the library
- Monday, June 17th: Parent Volunteer Brunch- 9:45-10:30 a.m.
- Monday, June 24th: CA Academy of Sciences End of the year trip
- Wednesday, June 26th: 5th grade Promotion Ceremony, report cards go home & last day of school (more details to come!)
Attention: Volunteers!
Won’t
you please come and join us for a special brunch in your honor on
Monday, June 17th from 9:45-10:30 a.m.? If you have helped us in any
way this year with Literature Circles, inside and outside class jobs,
our “Gold Dust or Bust!” performance, or any other school-related task,
we’d love to have you join us on the morning of June 17th. It’s our way
of saying “thank you” to our wonderful group of parent volunteers.
Curriculum Flash!
Language Arts
This week we read the last two chapters of Bridge to Terabithia.
We will be processing the complex feelings that Jess has around the
loss of his closest friend. Our writer’s workshop time on Friday will
be used this week for Human Growth & Development with our 5th
graders. Any available language arts time will also be devoted to
effectively revising previously completed work, creating covers, Tables
of Contents, About the Author pages, and dedications for their year-end
anthology books.
Math:
4th grade:
We
are now engaged in a terrific Interact experience called “Game
Factory.” Our students will be evaluating the fairness of a series of
games as they play them with their peers. Every day, we make predictions
based on our understanding of probability before play begins, play the
games, then debrief after game play to understand we a game either fair
or unfair in design. If we have enough time before the school year
ends, we’ll even create our OWN fair games to put our gaming “education”
to good use!
5th grade:
This
week in Biz World, students have formed companies, incorporated, come
up with a business plan, and are currently making pitches to a venture
capitalist to raise money. They will begin designing and start the
manufacturing process later this week. They are doing a great job so
far. Be sure to ask them about their companies!
Science & Social Studies:
All
5th grade students whose families have agreed to their child’s
participation will be learning about Human Growth & Development
during the majority of our Science & Social Studies periods this
week. During these sessions, 4th graders will be working with Ms. Lu
and Ms. Regosin on an assortment of extension activities in our other
subject areas.
Rooms 20/21
Investigation
5 in the Environments unit will be the focus of our remaining science
studies. Our classes will try to get a better understanding of the
issues of water and salt tolerance among various plants. Both live
investigation materials and supporting book materials will be used to
advance our classes’ knowledge in this area.
CA Trivia:
What is a county, and how many does California have?
