History & Geography

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Understand the main events of the Second Continental Congress.
• Understand the course and outcome of the Battle of
• Hill.
• Understand the main arguments and effects of Common Sense.
• Understand and summarize the Declaration of Independence.
• Compare and contrast the British and Continental armies.
• Understand the challenges facing George Washington as commander in chief.
• Understand the roles that women and African Americans played in the war effort.
• Understand Washington´s plan for winning the war.
• Understand the battles of Trenton and Princeton and their significance.

Mathematics w/Laura

Chapter 11 Squares and Rectangles

La lectura

This week the student presented their cereal box book reports.  It looked like everyone had fun and they all did a great job!

We did a fun little writing activity on Monday where students each started to write about their weekend and then passed their paper to someone else to continue their story.  I asked them to focus on their handwriting and their noun-verb agreement.  (There’s something about knowing  their classmates will be reading your work that makes them put in the extra effort.) They all really enjoyed this round-writing activity and learned a lot!

This week we also read a realistic fiction piece about a cautious and obedient young girl who overcomes a fear to get help for her ailing sister.  Our objectives this week were to:

• identify author’s point of view
• practice subject-verb agreement
• begin writing a literature response journal

Ciencias

We held off starting our 3rd investigation as we will need to be present for daily observations.

The students continued recording their daily observations from Investigations 1 and 2.

Specialists

Art With Ms. Kelly

Watershed Art Design for StreamTeam Earth Day competition: Students in grades 3 through 6 learned about watersheds and their importance to our environment. All the students did a great job creating their own landscape drawings and/or paintings of a watershed. I submitted their artwork to Clark Public Utilities StreamTeam art competition which sponsors Earth Day on April 20. I’ll let you know if any of our students win a prize, and I’ll pick up the artwork after Earth Day and return it to the students. 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a beautiful design with their hand print and patterns.

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: The students made some lovely paintings of cherry tree blossoms in Japan, using cardboard scraps, q-tips and paint brushes. They learned about the gift of 3000 cherry trees from Japan to our nation’s capitol in 1912. These are on the bulletin board at school.

Have a wonderful spring break!