Dear Families,
June 3rd is our Bee Sharing Day at the S.L. Kite Festival. This is a great opportunity for the kids to share their learning with our community and make a change. This community sharing is a big part of PBL and the culmination of our plant/bee study together, though I know for me and hopefully for the kids, what we've learned about will always stay with them. Please take a minute and sign up on our Sign Up Genius for next Saturday. I'll put the link on my email. Please see the link below to read about PBL and authenticity, which is what I hoped to achieve when we began learning about bees.
Gardening is hard work! Everyone worked together to get our courtyard cleaned up and ready for the plants and the bees!
Some important dates coming up:
*May 29th: No School- Memorial Day
*June 6th: Field Trip to Greenfield Village
*June 14th: Field Day
*June 15th: Rain Day for Field Day
*June 16th: Last day of school (dismissed at 12:30)
Our Chicks Hatched!
We had so much fun anticipating our chicks hatching (for 21 days) and Monday morning we had a chick in our incubator! Throughout the day, they continued to hatch and by Tuesday we had six chicks! We had fun watching them and caring for them. They went to their permanent home Friday evening. If you'd like to visit them, they are at MSU Tollgate Farms, on Twelve Mile.
My former students that used to be shorter than me, graduating next week and ready for college!
Reading
We worked on finding and reading research for our Passion Projects. The passion is definitely there! They are so interested in what they're researching, that they actually moan when we have to go to lunch and many are asking if they can stay inside from recess to continue to research! Remember that your child can work on this at home this weekend if there is time.Next week we'll finish up the projects and practice our presentations.
Writing
We finished up our Bee Brochures so that we could educate our community about bees and we wrote thank you notes to all of the experts that helped us with our learning. We are very grateful to all of our families and community members who helped us to learn everything we could about gardening and the importance of bees to our ecosystem, as well as how to recover from a bee sting!
As I’m sure you know, we really dove in to our "Genius Hour" projects this past week and many chose to create Google Slides. They are having so much fun and enjoying learning how to insert pictures, videos and writing text.
As I’m sure you know, we really dove in to our "Genius Hour" projects this past week and many chose to create Google Slides. They are having so much fun and enjoying learning how to insert pictures, videos and writing text.
Math:
Unit 9 lessons continued this week, ending with us completing unit 9.5. This unit is generally a review from the entire year. We have planned to take the final math test of the year on Friday, June 9th. Here are the homelinks for unit 9.
IXL Skills for Unit 9:
Science
We had lots of fun cleaning up the courtyard and creating our Pollinator Garden. We need to finish up our planting next week and finish our Fairy Garden. We also reviewed and learned about chlorophyll and photosynthesis. We'll finish up our planting and cleaning up for the courtyard next week!
