Important dates: Monday, January 16 - MLK Jr. Day - No school Wednesday, February 1 - End of Semester - No school Monday or Wednesday 6 or 8 - Museum of Flight Tuesday, February 14 - Valentine's Celebration Wednesday, February 15 - Airplane Extravaganza - Evening time TBA Hi families, Mercer Slough Mercer Slough was a hit! We lucked out with the weather. It rained for about 20 minutes at the beginning and then stopped enough for us to enjoy the swamp and forest habitats provided by the Slough. Students had a lab session exploring forest and swamp decomposers (worms, beetles and other invertebrates). and a field session in which they searched looked for them and other swamp features (spongy soil, stinky smells and fungus). It was a great outdoor learning experience for students as a refresher to our soils unit. Airplanes William the Engineer One of our families has a friend who works at Boeing as a airplane engineer. He came in and talked to us about how an airplane flies. He answered all of our questions ranging from, "Why do they put ducks into the engines (For testing)?" to "Why do they paint the planes white (For heat regulation)?" He finished his talk with a demo from a quadcopter. So cool! Thanks William. If anyone else is or knows someone in the "airplane field", let us know. We would love to have you in. Writing We looked at how master authors create and start gripping fiction. Producing gripping fiction can be tricky! Students thought about stretching out important moments and starting stories right in the thick of the action. Reading We are looking at character traits by looking at ourselves as character! We also examined how characters change over as a reaction to events in the story. Math We reviewed our addition strategies with math games and took an end of unit test to wrap up addition strategies.
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