Thursday!

We had a busy day today. We started the day with a fun all school assembly run by the Student Council. We also had our all school picture taken outside this morning. Math was a little different for us this morning...rather than work on contracts, we split into small groups and spent some time learning how to work through the math investigations at the end of each chapter. It was nice to switch our routine up a bit, and to get the kids working in small collaborative groups.
We spent time making some Mother's Day surprises which are sure to be a hit with our moms. The kids will be bringing them home tomorrow.

In social studies, we talked about what was happening in the rest of the United States during the early-mid 1800's while we are traveling the Oregon Trail. We used the textbooks and learned about nationalism, the Monroe Doctrine and the Trail of Tears. We took notes together and then spent time alone practicing our note taking strategies. We will have a quiz tomorrow on the information we learned--all notes that students took are fair game to use on the quiz:-)

In Spanish, Senorita Kim introduced a project due on May 21st. Ask your student about the details.

Homework tonight: Math, finish note taking, read for 20