3rd, 4th and 5th Grade Newsletter
November 2, 2009
November 2, 2009
Bartlett Cove Field Trip
We had a great trip to Bartlett Cove last week. Craig taught us a lot about watersheds, water quality, and different ways to collect data. Our year-long study is officially launched!
The students have decided that the topic for their year-long study is watersheds and that they are going to focus on water quality. Every other week we will be going to Glen’s Ditch to measure the temperature, depth, salinity, dissolved oxygen, the velocity, and the ph. On alternating weeks we will go to different river, stream or ditch in the Gustavus area and take the same measurements. By the end of the year we will have year-long data from Glen’s Ditch and as well as data from other streams and rivers to compare it to. We are still working on the details of the project and will keep you updated.
This week, on Wednesday, we will be going to Glen’s Ditch to collect data. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to come on any of our trips—we would love to show you what we are doing!
Book Adventure
Today we learned how to use the website, Book Adventure. It is a website that children can go to take quizzes on books that they have read. They can receive points to earn prizes if they get a certain number of questions correct. Occasionally, students will have time in class to use this website. I encourage them to visit the website on their own and take quizzes on the books that they read at home. They wrote their usernames and passwords for this website in their
planners today. The web address is: www.bookadventure.com
Donor Choose
There is a permission slip in some Red Folders today for permission to use photographs for Donors Choose. This is to send thank-you letters with photographs for the bass that Ellie received through this website. Our class wrote thank-you letters today. Please sign this
and return it soon so that we can get the letters and photos sent.
Paragraph a Week
The paragraph assignment this week is “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.” Included with the assignment is a description of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing. I will start grading writing using a
6 + 1 Traits Rubric.
Word of the Week: metamorphosis (We have two painted lady caterpillars that are in their chrysalises in our classroom! We are eagerly awaiting their emergence from their chrysalises!)
We had a great trip to Bartlett Cove last week. Craig taught us a lot about watersheds, water quality, and different ways to collect data. Our year-long study is officially launched!
The students have decided that the topic for their year-long study is watersheds and that they are going to focus on water quality. Every other week we will be going to Glen’s Ditch to measure the temperature, depth, salinity, dissolved oxygen, the velocity, and the ph. On alternating weeks we will go to different river, stream or ditch in the Gustavus area and take the same measurements. By the end of the year we will have year-long data from Glen’s Ditch and as well as data from other streams and rivers to compare it to. We are still working on the details of the project and will keep you updated.
This week, on Wednesday, we will be going to Glen’s Ditch to collect data. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to come on any of our trips—we would love to show you what we are doing!
Book Adventure
Today we learned how to use the website, Book Adventure. It is a website that children can go to take quizzes on books that they have read. They can receive points to earn prizes if they get a certain number of questions correct. Occasionally, students will have time in class to use this website. I encourage them to visit the website on their own and take quizzes on the books that they read at home. They wrote their usernames and passwords for this website in their
planners today. The web address is: www.bookadventure.com
Donor Choose
There is a permission slip in some Red Folders today for permission to use photographs for Donors Choose. This is to send thank-you letters with photographs for the bass that Ellie received through this website. Our class wrote thank-you letters today. Please sign this
and return it soon so that we can get the letters and photos sent.
Paragraph a Week
The paragraph assignment this week is “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.” Included with the assignment is a description of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing. I will start grading writing using a
6 + 1 Traits Rubric.
Word of the Week: metamorphosis (We have two painted lady caterpillars that are in their chrysalises in our classroom! We are eagerly awaiting their emergence from their chrysalises!)
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