Happy Wednesday, Parent Conferences, Human Body!

Hello Everyone!

Here is a brief update of what is going on in our class!

Parent Conferences:

Thank you to everyone who is coming to speak with me today! Our meeting will be short, but we will talk about student goals, math levels, and any information you would like to share with me. See you then!

Our Unit!:

Students have been working away learning about the different systems. Soon I will be asking them to specialize on a system so they can do some more in-depth research, so stay tuned! We had fun this week doing the lung capacity experiment using a milk jug, water, plastic tubing, and straws. Congrats to our top five lung capacity people — Vaughn, Dennis, Jim, Patricia, and Sherman! Did you know the general lung capacity for girls is 2,400 mL, and for boys it is 2,500 mL?

Students have been using Kids Health online, as it has a variety of kid-friendly articles and videos on a variety of health topics. There is also a section there for parents, so check it out! Thank you to everyone who brought in their ear buds or headphones so they can listen to videos without disturbing anyone. We will be using videos for information a lot this year, so if you don’t have ear buds, please look for some!

We hope to have a group of community health nurses and some doctors come to visit us in the near future. If you know of anyone who works in the health field who would like to speak with us, please let Ms. D know!

Library!

Our regular library time will be on Wednesday from 10:45-11:05. Please remember to mark calendars to bring back books on Wednesday mornings. All books have to be returned or renewed to be able to check out new books. Students are also receiving a notice about mature reads in the library. To receive permission to check out some books that are above the grade reading level, students need to have this form filled out and signed by their parents. Please look for the form coming home. Even if parents do not want their children reading higher level books with mature themes, the form still needs to be returned so Ms. Ho, our librarian, knows who can and cannot check out the books. Thank you!

Art!

We will be doing two things in art over the term — one is working with the elements and principles of art, and the second is trying art with new materials. We will also do art in connection with our unit related to mindfulness and stress reduction. Yesterday, we created a 12-square grid of art related to lines and multi-media! They are hanging in our classroom and looking beautiful! Pictures to come soon, and I will add them to this post.

Math:

As part of Crunching Data, we are working on understanding fractions, and we have done some probability work with fractions. Students are finishing their class data survey graphs, which are hanging in the classroom. Today we are playing the game of SKUNK to discuss probability. We will continue to do lessons and exercises related to expanding our knowledge of how to crunch, organize, and display our data!

LA:

Thank you everyone for finishing your letters to Cap Hill! They will be getting our letters soon, and we hope we will have time for a response before our field trip together on Sept. 28th.

Also, we will be continuing our work on Latin words, as we will be seeing a lot of health vocabulary with latin beginnings and endings! We started by looking at a giant list of Latin words and making up phobias according to Latin meanings, which was a lot of fun!

Notices:

Please return all notices ASAP. This includes the Field Trip form (now overdue), the yellow student verification form, the pink Young People’s Concert form, and the blue planner form. I know it is a lot, and thank you so much for your help in getting all of these things in as we organize our year.

Have a great evening!

Ms. D