Room 20 Classroom Notes April 29-May 3

Reed WAS AWESOME! Flaming gummy bears? Check chemical changes. Seeing an otter? Check foodweb discussion. Tour nuclear reactor? Check atomic properties. Zebrafish zygote and adult study? Check biological change over time. Make a new friend Zach who is our go-to contact at Reed Canyon? Check future partnership for future classrooms studying land and water. This week will be exciting! Docent letters for Art Night went home on Friday. Please consider even if you are a band member. This week is major math test prep for our test on THURSDAY morning (on time/sleep/eat well). We will be reviewing and practicing math concepts from this year. In writing, we are revising poems about our earlier common thread unit. Students will go back to their poems and make better word choices using some online tools. We also continue with a literary analysis based on the story, “A Passage to Freedom.” We identified three types of conflict in the story: between the character and other people, conflicts in society, and the internal conflict happening inside the main character. Students selected one conflict they want to write about. Essays will be due Friday, May 10th. Our Book Reports are due May 7th. This is approximately one week. Part of homework this week is filling out a reading log online (google form) at home or at school. Students may be reading large chunks of text if they are behind. They will be turning in their book reports (digital or hard copy) on that Friday and we will begin presenting. Also in math, students worked on a vocabulary word or concept (example: volume) and wrote a simple lesson plan. They wrote the concept, defined it, wrote an objective (The students will learn how to calculate volume), wrote out two straightforward questions and two word problems in context. That, along with a Common Core Standards support website, are part of our test prep along with a state-created math practice test.