Repost for the Week of March 14th

This is going to be a nice normal week, other than the face that there is no school on Friday for the kids.  The teachers will be be her learning new information.   I’m excited, aren’t you?  With this in mind, this will be a short post. 🙂

Survivor will start Monday.  We will have 2 people present at a time.  They will then be voted on by the class as to why they want the producer or consumer to stay on the island.    Even if they have been voted off, they still have a vote on every other  presentation.  I hope this is a great experience for all involved.  The kids are excited and so am I!

Our STEM Challenge this month is about oil spills and how they affect the living and nonliving environments.  We will be looking for ways that oil spills will be able to be cleaned up.

Homework
Reading:  Please read 20 minutes every night.  I can’t even express how important this is.  Studies prove that children who read score higher on end of level as well as standardized tests. Reading also helps to increase vocabularies, imaginations, and paychecks in the future.  I can see all sorts of benefits when it comes to reading every night.

Math:  There are so many possibilities for math homework.  I could assign worksheets, but there are beneficial activities that do the exact same thing as worksheets and the students tend to enjoy them more.  I have gone in and programed these sites to review what we have learned in class, if your child does extra, and it becomes too difficult, please feel free to e-mail me so I can reset your child’s activities.
Prodigygame.com
Under the Sea
Reflex Math
Front Row
Woot Math

Spelling:
No Spelling sorts this week due to it being a short week.  We will be working as a whole group on breaking words into parts and looking for the base word.