Hello everyone,

Good work this week.
This week you were given time to work on your Japan presentation. Most of you were able to present it and get some feedback.
Next week we will finish our study of Japan.
We will also work on study strategies and work toward doing our practice PAT.
In reference to this we will be reviewing the year for topics and skills.

Have a great weekend

Hello everyone,

Good job this week.
We are closing in on the end of our study on Japan.
This week we covered chapter 15 and continued the story of the reaction of Japan to the arrival of Perry and the return of the Emperor.

You have had some time to research and prepare your presentation for next week.
Next week we will cover how to prepare for finals and give you the study guide for the end of year test and do your presentations.

Have a good weekend.

Where there's Smoke, there's Fire

Math

• Did some word problems.
• Worked on 2 digit multiplication.
• Estimate with addition!😊
• Mathletics!
• Visual Journal!

Science

• Digestion (Magic School Bus Episode "What's for Lunch?")
• Immune System (Magic School Bus Episode "Inside Ralphie")
• Body Systems Project - DUE FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2019.  YOU HAVE HAD AND WILL HAVE LOTS OF CLASS TIME!
• Visual Journal!

Other Stuff

• Please be careful.  The Air Quality is BAAAAD. 
• Why is the air quality so bad in our community right now?
• Visual Journal!

Hello Everyone,

This week we continued working on our exploration of Japan. In addition to talking about the Spirit of Shinto, we started our projects researching an aspect of Japan.
We also made a first attempt in black out poetry. This is a great way to practice creative thinking with your reading and writing skills.
Also because you are reusing someone else's work you do not have the pressure com creating something from out of thin air.

Five more weeks. We will work on your Japan projects and talk about the last of the story to bring Japan to the modern era.

Have a good weekend.

Math

• Word problems with addition and subtraction.  Well done.  Some of you have even moved up to 2 step word problems.
• Tricks with multiplying - what do you do?

Science

• We know how to use a microscope. What information can we get?
• What are the characteristics of living things?
• How are plant and animal cells different?

Coming up

• Evidence - what is it?
• Puzzle Problems in math!

Hello Everyone,

This was a bit of an odd week with many people in the school falling to a illness and the postponing of the open house.
We worked on many of the same projects and continued with studying Japan and its world view.
We have arrived at the time in the narritive when Japan must choose how it will go forward in the face of being forced to interact with the west.

Feel free to read ahead but we will continue this after the long weekend.

Cells & Systems in the Movies and Life, with a hint of Math

Last Week in Math & Science we:

• Looked at plant and animal cells through the microscopes.
• Talked about and calculated magnification used to look at different critters and parts of critters.
• Analyzed Ant Man & Wasp for ways the technology is possible and ways it is not likely.  Could we calculated the size difference of Ant Man and Wasp?  How?
• cells to tissues to organs to systems......how?  
• Living vs Non Living, biotic vs abiotic how do we know?