Study...Study...Study

Notes from today:

Thank you to our PTO for bringing in the "Live Egyptian Animals" Assembly. We enjoyed being able to see the snakes, cats, scorpion, hedgehog, and cayman:) Some of them were so cute! - no- not the snakes and scorpion:)

We also talked about population and population maps.
For 2 tickets: What is the "census" and how does it relate to our discussion of population?
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/index.php
http://www.census.gov/schools/census_for_kids/

Math test tomorrow - Chapter 6
Spelling - Review unit 18
Social Studies - Chapter 5 Test on Thursday

Here's what we are up to in class this week:

Reading - We have been discussing elements of Tall Tales and Drawing Conclusions.

Language - We are working with Verbs (action/linking) and Subject/Verb agreement.
                -  We are also working with our Reading/Language specialist who is helping us practice      extended responses in preparation for our state tests.

Spelling - unit 17 /j/  dge and ge spellings

Math - We are practicing various methods of long division as well as learning about coordinate graphing. Test 6 is next week

Science - We are studying Force of Attraction. It is part of our Magnetism and Electricity module. Check out the website for more information, resources, and activities.
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/MagnetismandElectricity/index.html 

Social Studies - We are studying the Northeast region of the United States.

We are also going to participate in the Illinois Council on Economic Education Poster Contest.
http://www.econed-il.org/icee/econposter.shtml

- 2009 winners can be viewed at:
http://www.econed-il.org/icee/econposter_09.shtml

Reminder - Book orders are due tomorrow. The orders can also be placed online (check previous post for instructions).

It's Been Awhile...

We're back...

It has been awhile since our last post.
Many exciting things have been going on in our class lately:

We were visited by Geologist, from the University of Chicago. He brought in various objects related to his field, and talked with us about his job. Some children even got to try on his equipment:)


We were also visited by our 4th grade GATE Teacher today. She introduced some logic puzzles and Sudoku strategies. Here are links to some fun puzzle sites:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/logic/puzzles/
http://www.sudokuessentials.com/sudoku_for_kids.html

Parents, book orders can be completed online if you are interested. A letter went home today explaining the process. Here is a quick link to the site, along with the user name/password for our class.

www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

User Name:     lmaurer4_1
Password:     Keller 

Enjoy the long weekend!