Thursday's Activities

We gave the students their progress reports today,  I hope you look for them and talk with them about their progress when you have time!
Tomorrow(Friday), we will pass out our class pictures to one another, just as i had mentioned in the parent letter at the beginning of the week. The students seem very excited to be able to hand out and collect pictures from their classmates. 
Bible-  Our focus today in Bible was to learn how to use the Footnotes in our Bible to find out more information about something in our text. The students practiced using the footnotes and referring to passages or other notes to fully understand the meaning of the original passage. The students will have a fill-in-the blank New Testament Books Quiz tomorrow.
 Science- Today the students were given the time to focus on and complete the "Trash Pizzas" that we had started. The goal of this activity was for the students to be able to see how much of what we throw away on average is plastic, paper, metals and other categories. The pictures below show the students working on this activity.
Literacy- Mrs. VanHofwegen visited our class today to introduce to the students the new break-out groups that we are starting next week. In these groups we will be focusing on the specific skills that we have noticed that our students can be challenged in related to literacy. We read through a folktale story entitled; " ", and we also had a mini grammar lesson about linking verbs. We concluded our literacy time today by looking at consonant blends that appear in the beginning, middle and ending portions of words.  We have our Unit 8 Spelling Words/ Skills Test tomorrow. 
 Math- Today the students and i reviewed the basic concepts that we would like them to know for their Unit 3 assessment tomorrow. The students all did very well with this and it seems to me that they are prepared for their assessment tomorrow.
Computers- The students have been working recently on designing a scrapbook page related to a folktale story they had read last week in class. The students are working to include the main elements of folktale on their page.
Music- The students had music this afternoon. They played their recorders with Miss Feyen. This is one thing that the students should remember to bring with them every Thursday so that they have the chance to fully participate in these activities with their classmates.