Week of 4/2-4/6

I hope you all survived April Fools Day. I can honestly say I don't mind one bit when April 1st falls on a weekend. Due to the observance of Good Friday this week, we will only have four days to cram all of our work in to. Remember, NO SCHOOL on Friday, April 6th. If you show up no one will be there!

I will be offering after-school hours on only Tuesday this week. With Friday being a holiday (Good Friday) no homework will be assigned on Thursday.

Please try and remember to get your permission slips in for the Concord Field Trip and the Human Growth and Development video sessions next week. I am expecting ALL Concord forms in by Wednesday, April 4th.

I have lots of computer lab time put aside this week to work on the Revolutionary Battle reports that we will be presenting the week before vacation. Much of your research should be almost complete and the next steps will be compiling the data and getting the PowerPoint project organized.

For those of you reading Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen and My Brother Sam is Dead by the Collier brothers, we will be responding to a prompt on Monday and Tuesday, reviewing our vocabulary words on Wednesday, and then taking our end of book vocabulary assessment on Thursday.

Don't forget we will be starting our week-long project on weather observation Monday. I will finish up going over the requirements and expectations during Science class Monday afternoon

On Thursday morning, 5W and 5M will be visited by Phebe Bliss Emerson, an eyewitness to the first shots of the Revolutionary War. She does a wonderful job explaining and describing life in Concord, Mass. during the Revolutionary period. This a great introduction to our field trip to Concord next week. The students will not only learn a lot from this presentation they will be amazed at how good Mrs. Emerson looks for someone over 260 years old. To learn more about this presentation please visit this site: http://janturnquist.com/pem.htm