Update on April 5th, Wednesday!

Hello Everyone! Quick Updates!

As I said in email to all parents, some students did not receive the Deep Cove Kayak notice today. If you missed receiving it, you can find it under Notices. Each parent will also need to fill out the waiver form, which is done electronically at the Deep Cove Website.

Tuning IN Reflections: Students should have selected six articles from the Nature Unit links on the Articles of Interest Page. They then should write a reflection for each one. Please include a few lines to tell us what the article is about, and then a longer section with the thoughts, questions, and feelings they had about the article. Due April 10th, Monday.

Math: For our nature unit applied math, we are focusing on data and charts. This will mean doing a series of smaller math projects. Our first is all about Earth data. Tonight students need to finish page one, finding number facts about the Earth.

Battle of Books: All students have first book signed out! See blog post about the competition and guidelines.

Everett Crowley Park Walk April 11: Weather depending (I will be looking on Monday to see if it will be nice enough), we will walk from Suncrest to Everett Crowley Park on Tuesday, April 11th, starting at 9AM. For tonight, I have asked students to find out the history and any interesting facts about the park. We will discuss over next three days.

Rain Jacket for April 18th Watershed: Please look for rain jacket with hood. Think about what backpack will travel well — think light, think waterproof.

Library: Please bring your books for tomorrow!

Caribou Test: Caribou Test for April is tomorrow afternoon from 1-2 PM

Student Leds: We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! Please come at the time assigned. All students need to leave the classroom at 2PM so I can have a quick break before starting at 2:10 PM. I will also not be in the classroom from 5-5:30 so I can get some dinner. If younger siblings are coming, please be advised they will need to stay with parents the whole time, as we will have lots of crazy stations set up! Thank you for your help.

Have a great evening! See you tomorrow!

Battle of the Books!

Battle of the Books!

 

This term we will be having a BATTLE OF THE BOOKS within our own class. You have until June 12th to read as many of the 11 books in our classroom as you can! 

You do not have to read all of them, but do as many as you can and coordinate with your team members so all books are read.

 

As you read, take some basic notes so you remember what the book is about. We will also be writing questions for our books that will be used as part of the competition.

Each question will begin with, “In what book would you find…..” or, “In what book does….” with the answers always being a specific book title that you have to guess as a team. The questions should not be ones you can find the answer to by just reading the back book cover. We are looking for more depth than that! We will be talking together about asking deeper questions about our reading to help. The questions will show your reading comprehension, and this activity is part of our LA Reading marks for the term.

On June 12th, teams will sit together and answer questions about the books. We will have several rounds over a few days, and the team with the highest number of correct answers wins!

Books can be taken home to finish reading, but PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THEM! They are checked out in your name and the same rules apply as checking out a library book from Suncrest. Thank you.

Always see Ms. D to check in your book before taking another to sign out.

Books we will be reading are:

Wings of Fire The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison
Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius by Stacey Matson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH  by Robert C. O’Brien
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
Trouble Twisters by Garth Nix and Sean Williams
Arthur The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland