Boosterthon Fun Run!

We had a great day at our Fun Run! Thank you for all your support in coming out to cheer us on and pledging to help our school. It was a fantastic day!

Telegraph & Morse Code

We are learning about inventions in Social Studies. Our class was interested in using the morse code. Click on the link below to see the morse code and try to write a secret coded letter using the morse code to share with the class!

 

Morse Code Homework Assignment

Similes, Metaphors, and Personificataion

We have been working with figurative language in writing. Here are some links to websites that can help your child review:

Similes & Metaphors

Personification

Multiplication

We are multiplying two digit numbers in math this week! Here is a chart that we made in class to help us remember the steps to solve a two digit multiplication problem using the standard algorithm.

Travel on the Westward Trail

Today you will become pioneers traveling West. You will role play in the game and have to go thru all the challenges that the pioneers went thru. Please complete the "Travel the Westward Trail" handout as you go thru the website game.  We will review the reflection questions as a class in Social Studies. Click on the link below labeled "Travel on the Westward Trail"

Travel on the Westward Trail

Westward Expansion

We are beginning a new unit on Westward Expansion in Social Studies this week. Settlers were encouraged to move westward after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Many of them were encouraged to move by things such as the Homestead Act, which gave 160 acres of land to American citizens who were committed to settling on the land and who could pay the $10 registration fee. However, farming on the plains proved much more difficult than many settlers thought it would be. Thousands of African Americans also moved west after the Civil War to escape life in the South. Mining, ranching, and lumbering also attracted settlers to the West. This westward expansion also greatly affected the lives of Native Americans who lived in much of the territory out west.  We will be learning about all of these things and more during this new unit. Check out this video below to decide if you lived in this time period if you would have moved west.

Would you move?

Edmodo

Our class is doing some excellent work on Edmodo. This website is a great learning tool for students. They are able to communicate with me and the other students in the class about things we are studying and learning. They are really excited about using their Edmodo accounts. They can use them at home and will have time at school to use their Edmodo account. Ask your child about Edomodo and let them show you their account. I am sure they will be happy to share with you! If you or your child read this post, have them whisper the word "fire truck" to me to receive a free homework pass.(I am trying to see who is reading the blog posts!) Thanks!