Room 20 Classroom Notes May 28th-May 31st

Room 20 has been doing an AMAZING job with taking walk and bike data and presenting it in poster and digital forms. We will conclude with our data gathering and displaying this week. We will be sharing our Native American presentations with one another this week. We will view each other's digital or poster presentation and take notes of what our classmates researched. We continue with our poetry books- creating a poetry book of several kinds of poetry. We also continue with our books "Woodsrunner" and our book on the American Revolution and Revolutionary War. We will also play an online video game that is about the American Revolution after we finish a research activity. We will begin our fifth-grade health unit titled, "Family Life and Sexual Health (FLASH) this week." On Monday, I will be sending home a letter and a waiver, if you prefer to sign it. The unit's purpose is to give accurate information about bodies and growth. It is also a way to empower students to ask better informed questions to their parents and doctors. Please feel free to contact me with further questions. In math, we will continue exploring decimals: ordering, multiplying, and dividing. Homework this week will be our weekly essay due Friday (note we have fewer days this week) along with a vertebrates activity- Drawing and coloring a picture of one of the five classes of vertebrates, labeling it, and finding information about its habitat and what it eats. Students will be assigned a class of vertebrates. If students would like to do a second this week, they are more than welcome. Parents, your child needs you! We will be sending some of our students through a multiplication facts boot camp at home until the end of the year. You must help them with multiplication facts 1-12. When I recently spoke to the principal at Sellwood MS and asked her what her "wish list" is for every incoming sixth grader, she said be sure to know your math facts! While we all know there are countless of important tools to have as a sixth-grader, I got her point. Room 20 will be prepared. Most of us are in a good space. Let's make it 100%!