Pictures Galore!

Goodness gracious! I have TONS of pictures to share with you. Take a look at the several new albums I posted.

I posted pictures of you designing and creating landscaping plans for the FPA vegetable garden.
I posted pictures of you doing The Cup Game. The very first photo in the album is actually a video of you all! Very impressive.
I posted pictures of Jump Rope for Heart. I was so busy jumping and DDRing with you that I didn't have much time to take lots of pictures--but at least you get the idea of what we were doing.
I posted pictures of you drawing and researching your plants that are native to Minnesota. These are the same plants we will be planting in our rain garden. Did you tell your parents that your plant pictures will be made into seed packets that the Maplewood Nature Center will be passing out to guests? We will see if we can get a hold of your drawings on the seed packets so you can see what they look like. If you are interested, the seed packets will be passed out at the Nature Center on May 1 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Finally, I posted pictures of you webbing about Ancient Greece and Rome. Boy, we sure learned some interested facts about the culture!

We are continuing our trek along the Oregon Trail. Today students were each given two landmarks along the trail. They need to write one-two paragraph descriptions about each landmark and include a colored drawing of the location. Please make sure to include location, geographic features (mountains, trees, prairie, river, etc. ), a physical description (use your five senses), and for a challenge--how many miles from Independence, Missouri you are. All research and drawings are due Monday, April 27.

In literacy, we started a unit on Myths, Legends and Folk Tales. We did a webbing exercise using non-fictions books to learn about the ancient Roman and Greecian cultures. We will be learning about the elements of myths, as well as about the gods and goddesses--that's the plan for this week anyway:-)

This week for spelling, students chose 15 states and their capitals to practice. For our states and capitals test on Friday, students will be responsible for spelling those 15 states and capitals correctly!

Remember--Wednesday is our garden planting day. We need gardening tools!!!!!!!!!!!

Homework: Math, soc. studies journal, landmark project due Monday