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Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: None today due to completing a year-end district math test.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Find It, Decide It project, due Friday, June 11.

Resources:

• Find It, Decide It project guidelines
• Our project discussion on Google Wave (your student may need to log in for you to view this)

Math: We reviewed calculating area and perimeter.

Science: We learned that fossils are not bones, but replicas of plants, animals or footprints.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Can you help with our Courtyard Garden Project on Thursday, June 10? Here are all the details.
• Visit our class photos page to see the latest pictures and videos.
• I-Search Gallery (view our I-Search presentations).
• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: None today due to completing a year-end district math test.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Find It, Decide It project, due Friday, June 11.

Resources:

• Find It, Decide It project guidelines
• Our project discussion on Google Wave (your student may need to log in for you to view this)

Math: We reviewed calculating area and perimeter. To practice this, students were asked to design a square-foot garden. Here are the rules:

1. Design three different garden boxes
   1. Make one a square
   2. Make one a rectangle (not a square)
   3. Make one another shape (but only use right angles)
2. Plant three kinds of fruits or vegetables in each box
3. In order to know how many vegetables of each kind to purchase, calculate the area for each vegetable.
4. In order to know how much soil to buy, calculate the area of each box.
5. In order to know how much lumber to buy for the boxes, calculate the perimeter of each box.
6. In order to know how many marigolds to plant around the vegetables to keep the rabbits away, calculate the perimeter of each fruit or vegetable.

Homework is to finish their garden plan.

Science: We started a Science Court investigation about fossils. Today’s question: Are all fossils made of bone? Homework is to finish the Science Court page if not done in class.

Social Studies: We learned that the Federal government has some powers (making money, declaring war), the state governments have some powers (establishing schools, making laws about driver’s licenses) and some powers are shared by both levels (collecting taxes, making laws).

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Can you help with our Courtyard Garden Project on Thursday, June 10? Here are all the details.
• Visit our class photos page to see the latest pictures and videos.
• I-Search Gallery (view our I-Search presentations).
• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: None today due to Field Day.

Writing: None today due to Field Day.

Students are continuing  to work on their Find It, Decide It project, due Friday, June 11.

Resources:

• Find It, Decide It project guidelines
• Our project discussion on Google Wave (your student may need to log in for you to view this)

Math: We practicing drawing pictures to calculate what the fraction of a number would be, such as 2/3 of 24 equals 16.

Science: We learned about the food chain of a barn owl by dissecting an owl pellet to look for bones inside. Most students found vole skeletons, but a few mice were also found.

Social Studies: None today due to Field Day.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Can you help with our Courtyard Garden Project on Thursday, June 10? Here are all the details.
• Visit our class photos page to see the latest pictures and videos.
• I-Search Gallery (view our I-Search presentations).
• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students continued to work on their Find It, Decide It project, due Friday, June 11.

Resources:

• Find It, Decide It project guidelines
• Our project discussion on Google Wave (your student may need to log in for you to view this)

Math: We reviewed calculating what the fraction of a number would be, such as 2/3 of 24 equals 16.

Science: We learned about adaptations that can help an animal to survive in its environment, such as a frogs strong legs, big eyes, sticky tongue and webbed feet.

Social Studies: We reviewed the branches (legislative, executive, judicial) and levels (local, state, federal) of government and we started to discuss what powers our federal government has.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 4
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 14

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Can you help with our Courtyard Garden Project on Thursday, June 10? Here are all the details.
• Visit our class photos page to see the latest pictures and videos.
• I-Search Gallery (view our I-Search presentations).
• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

What: Our class has decided to build a vegetable garden in our school courtyard. We will be building three, 4×8’ boxes for planting vegetables.

Who: This will be a project for Room 130 fourth graders and families.

When: Thursday, June 10, from 5-8pm will be our Garden Work Day. We will also need students and families to help tend the garden over the summer and to harvest the produce in the fall.

Why: Our class feels we are capable of planting a garden because we have learned about what plants need to live. Also, we will be growing this garden as a community service. The produce we harvest will be donated to Carriage Town Mission or other area food banks. We want to put our knowledge to work to help others!

What we need help with:

Our class is using a $100 minigrant to purchase top soil, plants, seeds, lumber, and hardware. We have enough top soil for the three boxes and all the vegetables and seeds (donated by Walker Farms). We also have some composted manure that has been donated. We still need help with a few items.

• Family volunteers to help build the boxes, till the soil, fill the boxes and plant the vegetables.
• A rototiller that we could break up the grass with.
• 12, 40-lb bags of peat moss to help hold in the water over the summer (or a donation to purchase some peat moss). We will have 8, 40-lb bags of topsoil for each box. It would be nice to add 4 bags of peat moss to each box.
• A power drill (cordless or powered with an extension cord) to assemble the boxes. We will be using 1/4” hex head screws. I have a hex head bit.
• Help with assembling the boxes.
• Rakes, shovels and hand shovels to use for the day.
• A truck to use to go pick up the lumber (9, 2×6’s).

Can you help us on our Garden Work Day on Thursday, June 10? Post a comment about how you can help, or just contact me.