5A NEWS

April 7-11, 2014

Email: megan.kuemmerlin@eac.com.br Website: www.journeywithmrsk.weebly.com

Follow us on Instgram @ journeywithmrsk The class journalist takes and posts the pictures and videos.

important dates:
Thursday, April 10th: Spelling Test Unit 5 Week 3 Friday, April 11th: Student Led Conferences--No School Monday, April 14th: Assembly

In Unit 9 students learn about Coordinates, Area, Capacity, and Volume. Students will be plotting ordered pairs on graphs, calculating area, capacity, and volume, and exploring transformations in all of the topics above. Please check out the Everyday Math Site for more information. We will be flipping most of the lessons in this unit. Students can access the math videos by scrolling to the Math menu on the class website. In the Math Menu go to Flipped Learning and then Unit 9.

Math: Unit 8

WEEKLY vocabulary
!Math Unit 8: area, axis, capacity, coordinate grid, formula, longitutde, latitude, ordered number pair, perpindicular, parallel, transformation, volume (Everyday Math Vocabulary Sheet) !Spelling: (Talk with an Astronaut story) artist, tourism, biology, phobia, heroism, meteorology, geology, cartoonist, technology, journalism, zoology, hydrophobia, violinist, patriotism, vocalist, claustrophobia, ecology, capitalism, novelist, technophobia

This week in Language Arts we will be reflecting on our progress since the beginning of second semester. Students will self-reflect and prepare for Student-Led Conferences on Friday. Each student will write a reflection on four pieces of work and will post their reflections on their blog to share with their parent(s). Also, students will publish their Harris Burdick writings on their websites. We will create QR codes for a wider audience to access and read their stories.

Language arts:

We will review the scientific method and then begin science experiences based on student created questions. During all the science experiments we will record our data in our science notebooks.

Science:

Students are becoming pros at using Google Docs. Here is an example of a vocabulary activity we completed last week.

Grandparents and special friends showed us their multiplication skills in Around the World!

mrs. ks notes:
!This Friday is Student Led Conference day. Please make sure your child comes to the conference with you, as students are leading the conferences. I sent home your scheduled time on Friday with your child, please make sure to respond if you will make it or not. !The next Elementary Assembly is April 14th at 8:45. The winners of the Invention Convention will be announced.