Highlights and Reminders
In music, we sang "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rocks.  Mr. K had us run 4 laps in gym class.

We have begun a read aloud book called How Not to Run for President.  We will be using this book to practice the skills for our reading goals.

Wednesday is our library day.  Make sure you have your books here either to return or renew them. 

Fundraising packets and spirit wear orders are due by Friday.

In math, we discussed what a variable means and how to write an algebraic expression.

Students bringing their own tech devices need to remember to use them at the appropriate times.

Highlights
We discussed for an opinion paragraph what information should be in our topic sentence.

There were two different fire drills today.  Both of them used the alarms.

In art class, we began to draw trees with oil pastels.

Some students began their orchestra lessons.  You can still sign up this week for orchestra.  Band students have their practices on Tuesday. 

Keep selling the fundraising items to help the school.  Packets are due by Friday the 12th.  Also, you can support the school by dining out on Wednesday at CiCi's Pizza.

In math, we did a quiz on graphs and discussed vocabulary words for number sense.

Vikings won in flag football.

As a class, we did an article on Kidbiz3000 in the IMC.

Highlights
It's Friday!!!  Have a great weekend!!!

Katelyn K. and Jordan S. were this week's raffle winners.  Congratulations!!

On Monday, wear pink in support of those fighting cancer.

Swim night at Frank Lloyd Wright is tonight.

Progress reports went home with the students today.

We heard some of student's written opinion of school lunch.

It was a 5 lap running day in gym class.

Highlight
Our class read a book with Mrs. Simon's class.  We had a wide variety of experiences with the younger students.

Spelling tests are on Friday.

Your final copy of your opinion about school lunch is due right when you get to school.
Orchestra begins lessons tomorrow.

In math, our focus was on converting different math measurements.

In Social/Emotional Learning, we created a poster on test taking.

Reading groups picked goals to work on and the color of their group.

Student council applications are due tomorrow.

Highlights
We took a math quiz on our ability to analyze data with mode, mean, median, and range.

Our first time checking out books this year went very well.

A class photo was taken for Mr. Irwin's Ipad.

In our journal, we heard the beginning of some creative stories about sneaking into the Constitutional Convention.

Orchestra has their first practice on Friday.

Student council forms are due by Friday, also.

Due on Friday, students must have written their final copy about their opinion of school lunch.

Highlights

In our physical education class, students ran 4 laps, but some students ran more.

We continued to learn about the 3 branches of government, and some of us wrote about them in our journal.

Wednesday will be our first check out from the library.  It is also a Wheeling to Jefferson Day.  Wear green to support your team Innov8or.

In math, we studied bar graphs and how to analyze the data.

The students continued to sing about the United States in music class.

Orchestra will begin this Friday.

Cadets are beginning to help the school during lunch and at the end of the day.

A letter is being sent home to describe KidBiz3000 and how students can work on the program at home.

Highlights
On Kidbiz, we were assigned a new article that discusses the importance of voting.

We shared our KWL charts that we had been making about the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

In math, students studied line plot and analyzed them with median, mode, range, and mean.

In art, we made designs based off a graph.

New word sorts were passed out.

Band members remember your instruments for your lessons.

You can bring gentle used books to donate to the Boy Scouts all week.

Wednesday is a wheeling to Jefferson Day.

It was pink day to show support for those fighting cancer.