Literatura
This week we wrote a fictional story about the best Spring Break ever!
Our objectives were:
- Write a fictional stories that are focused on one event (Spring Break)
- Write from their own perspective
- Plan, draft, revise, and edit stories
Matemáticas
This week we continued working with fractions.
Our objectives were:
- compare and order fractions
- show fractions as points or distances on a number line
- compare and order fractions using benchmark fractions
History & Geography
Social studies with Ms. Marci.
This week we in our unit on Native Americans: Regions and Cultures we read about the Native Americans from the Northwest region. We had a wonderful field trip to Lelooska. The whole school enjoyed hearing the legends, seeing these amazing carved masks in action, and visiting the museum for a scavenger hunt. On Thursday your child should have brought home a note explaining the unit project. The project will be due Thursday, April 24th. we will have our 
end of unit celebration on that day as well.
Our objectives were to:
• explain that Native Americans still live throughout North America
• locate the Pacific Northwest coast region on the map
• identify Native American tribes from the Pacific Northwest
• name important foods for the coastal tribes
• describe dwellings of these tribes
• compare and contrast cultural identity of these coastal tribes to the Inuit.
Social Studies with Ms. Laura We
Science
This week in our science domain we reviewed the Big Bang Theory.
Our objectives were to:
• identify and use vocabulary important to the process of science
• explain the Big Bang Theory as an important scientific theory of the origin of the universe
English Word Work
Spelling groups got their new sorts on Monday but won’t have their spelling test until Friday, April 20. The class took a spelling assessment this Friday. In our journals we used the word of the week “thorough” in one entry and wrote about Spring Break in another. There was no grammar this week.
Specialists
Music with Ms. Erin
In March we delved into a songwriting project in which the class was divided into groups and each group worked together to write an original song. The skills that we covered in the songwriting project were:
- Choosing a subject for each song, and writing lyrics that match the subject
- Learning to rhyme, or create the sensation of a rhyme through similarity in structure and rhythm
- Creating melody for the lyrics
- How to detect plagiarism and rewrite your song to avoid it when necessary
- Choosing mood and instrumentation to complement song subject and lyric content
- Singing in tune and with the beat
- Recording “scratch” tracks (practice or test recordings)
In April we will move on to the next stage of the songwriting project, where we will be focusing on:
- Practicing singing and rhythm skills to improve the quality of song performance
- Adding new elements to the songs, including percussion and other types of instrumentation
- Workshop the songs with collaborative feedback and suggestions from the entire class
- Record our final takes on each song, getting a good finished product for each group that they will be able to share with their families