MANY PROJECTS AND LONG TERM ASSIGNMENTS COMING DUE

You may be noticing that your 5th grader has a lot of projects and assignments due one after the other. If your child has been keeping up with these assignments all along, then completing them should be very possible.  The model of the invention should be completed by tonight and a photo taken and printed and brought to school tomorrow. Many students have already brought in their photos and their completed Log Books. Log Books are due Wednesday (April 30).  All but three students have completed their final drafts of their outlines for their Women in History research reports and are working on writing their first drafts of the report itself.  Two students have already written their first drafts. The first draft of the report is due: May 4.  Your child should be working on one or two paragraphs a night in order to complete the report on time. Those who are very behind and are still working on their outlines, should be spending some weekend time catching up. There will be a history test on The Southern Colonies May 7. I will be giving some review and study time in class. I will also be giving the essay questions in advanced (tomorrow) and some study guide sheets this week. Please help your child by making sure your computer is working, your printer is working and your child is reminded about the nightly work on the report and all due dates. You might want to post a calendar with the due dates circled and labeled with the assignment. 

In school we are working on completing the Million Dollar project, reading Johnny Tremain, studying about the Southern Colonies and slavery, doing some activities related to some science curriculum we learned on our field trip to the Headlands, writing letters to parent chaperones, writing memoirs from a slave’s point of view or “graphic novels” depicting the three passages of slavery. We had a great time on our Headlands trip and got a chance to see and explore sea life and eco- systems we could never have done on school campus. At the Headlands the outdoors became our laboratory.