Announcements -
- 5/25 - No School
- 6/2 - Lower School Concert
- 6/5 - No School faculty workshop
- 6/8 - **6th Grade Beach Day (tentative date)
- 6/10 - 1pm Lower School field day
- 6/11 - Last Day! (full day of school)
- Ask Your Child About -
- Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
- Earth Day and Arbor Day discussions: cutting down on waste from our snacks/meals, deforestation, history of satellites (viewing our planet over time)
- Math
- Sequence and patterns: review and test
- "Trashketball" Order of operations practice/review game
- MashUp Math: Earth Day (order of operations)
- English
- Root -ped-
- Information EBooks: research trails, identifying chapter topics, looking at mentor examples
- MYSTERY (genre) Reading Groups! After discussions about the features of mystery stories we read a Sherlock Holmes play to practice identifying those elements and taking notes about witnesses/suspects/clues, etc. Then, students chose from 6 book options and learned who their reading group members will be. They will begin the books this week, so they should be reading at home!
- Science
- Unit 5 test
- Begin Unit 6: Earth Physics - Read about how sound works, students participated in a hands-on lab about sound/sound waves!
- Social Studies/Global Perspectives
- China: learned about 2 more dynasties of China and their achievements. Students also travelled the Silk Road to learn about the many different goods traded and why the route was so important (wealth, communication, acquisition of goods, spread of Buddhism)
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