This past week has been unusual with the SACS visiting team in the building and I was unexpectedly absent for a day and a half, but we persevered on through to Friday and spent a stress free day being creative! The posters are mostly completed. Your children were introduced to basic skills on the MacBooks that assisted them in completing research: cutting and pasting from the internet to a word document, clicking and dragging pictures for printing, finding good information using a search engine, and basically completing a group project from start to finish on their own!
This week we are going back in time to learn a Native American skill, weaving. Each child needs to have a skein of yarn by Thursday. Any yarn will do, but the thinnest yarns are harder to work with, so I recommend a heavier weight. Fancy, frilly yarn are acceptable and make a nice piece of woven art.
Friday is Parent Conference Day! I am looking forward to seeing you at your appointed time.
Math
Congratulations, we are finished with the first Unit in Math and we are moving on to Unit 2, Chapters 5 - 8 "Algebra, Data, and Graphing". We will plunge into Chapter 5, using unknown variables with addition on Tuesday with no graded work in math this week.
Science
Due to my absences last week and the amount of time we spent on the Social Studies research, Science was not finished up as planned. I hope to wrap up Chapter 10 this week. Our next unit of study is on the cells.
Social Studies
We are continuing on with the Native American studies and reading through Chapter 2, Lessons 3 & 4. Our weaving projects will be started on Thursday and continued on throughout the next two weeks until completion. Please look for information coming home about the Potlatch activity we will celebrate as we finish this Unit on Native Americans.
As always, thank you for the blessings of working with your children.
Karen McVay
