Riddle of the Week: Using only addition, how do you add eight 8’s and get the number 1000?

REMINDERS

Monday April 30th:

Drum Awakening Ceremony at 11:00am for all students who made a drum with Ms. Nina and Davita.

Thursday May 3rd:

The Big One at 2:00pm: We will be having our big earthquake drill on Thursday afternoon.

Division 3 will have one more session with Project Chef.  We will be making cookies with Division 5.

Friday May 4th:

Project Chef celebration in the gym picnic style from 2:00-2:50pm.

WEEKLY WORK

Math

Math Notebooks will be due for all three grades on Thursday this week.

PS: Grade 4 and 6 will continue their geometry this week. Grade 5 will practice their beginning algebra work with one-step equations. PS is due on Friday.

Language

4/5s:  Grade 4 and 5 students will use  grammar booklet as a resource while we study prepositions this week.  Language work will be due on Friday.

6s: Grade 6 students will continue their sentence analysis work.   Grade 6 students will also continue to study etymology.  Etymology work and quiz will be due on Friday.

Students will begin our  class-wide novel study on the true story “A Stranger at Home” written by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton.  This is the sequel to “fatty legs”. The reading strategies we are going to be using in this novel study include: connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and transforming.  This week we will read chapters 1 and 2.  Students are responsible for chapter 1 and 2 questions and work.

Culture

This week we will begin discussing the Learning Fair and possible topics around the theme of food.  Students are required to have their Learning Fair Proposal completed by May 1st.  Students will be completing most, if not all of their work for the Learning Fair during class time at school.  This is important because most of the learning comes from the process of doing rather than the final project.  It is very important for me to see this process and struggle at school.