CLASSY MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICA!

Our Native American museum exhibits are wonderful.  Historians did a fantastic job presenting their work last week.  Their projects, ranging from NA shelter and hunting to masks, pottery, and kachinas, are still decorating our classroom.  As always, this class pulled off impressive work and we enjoyed sharing.  Thank you for all your help getting kids prepared to share their projects.  Enjoy pictures of projects and more of the Potlatch celebration below.

This week we are transitioning in a few subjects and there is a description of our work below.

MATH: We will finish the fraction unit this week with a math test on Friday!  There will be a study guide and math homework each night this week.

READING: This week we are choosing new books based on a Journey theme.  Each book has a character going on a type of journey.  This dynamic will match our studies of the Age of Exploration in Social Studies.  Some students will choose to read in a book club, but they also have a choice to read a journey book by themselves too.  There will be weekly literature journal assignments with this reading cycle.

SS/WRITING:  We will spend a day reflecting on our Native American work.  Then we will start getting into the Age of Exploration.  Our work will be nestled in a theme we call Discovery.  This integrated work includes weekly projects in writing, mapping, and other skills.  There will be a packet for the theme in next week's folder but we will start the foundation this week.

SCIENCE:  We are working on many things during science time.  Each student will finish sharing their community inspirations on Monday. We will discuss and choose our 5th grade community project.  We might have another beeclipse lesson or we will start our matter unit.  Our science time will also be used to help plan our CATTV projects.