Science Fair!

Science Fair is Tuesday, June 7th!


To be ready, we are going to be writing up the lab report at school.
Each week, one step of the process is due.

The experiment itself is to be conducted at home.

It is never to early to buy a display board.

Please ask your student THIS WEEK what they plan to do.  If the project is dangerous (some want to light fires) or use human test subjects, I will require a permission slip.

Due Dates
Question:  due April 29th
Hypothesis: due May 6
Materials: due May 13th
Procedures (rough draft): due May 20th  + Experiment Completed
Data Table + Procedures (final draft): due May 27th
Conclusion: Due June 3rd
Poster Board Complete: due June 3rd
Science Fair: June 7th

Classwork: April 26th

Science Fair: Question (due Friday)
Have a question written up for your science fair project.

Choice Piece #2 Final Draft (due Friday)

Word Journal #6: 10 words beginning with "cred-" + 5 choice words with definitions

Reading: Chapter 12 Notes (re: Declaration of Independence)

Math Menu 7.1

+ Book Work for each math group (check with your student)

Math Challenge Celebration Permission Slip

MATH CHALLENGE CELEBRATION

On Friday, April 22^nd, 2016, those students in Mr. Samson’s class who turned in a math challenge form from Spring Break will stay after school for the Math Challenge Celebration.  We will be playing games in the gymnasium at Hansen Elementary School from 3:02pm until 4:15pm.  Parents are expected to provide transportation for their kids promptly at 4:15.  No other equipment or materials are required.

I agree to let my student, __________________________________________, participate in the Reading Challenge Celebration.

PARENT SIGNATURE________________________________________DATE______________________

My child will be picked up by ______________________________________ at 4:15.

Classwork: April 11th

Welcome back!
I hope that you break was restful and restorative.
Sometimes I feel like I need a vacation to recover from my vacation.

Here we go!
We are working on our  choice pieces.  By the end of the year, they should have three final drafts:

• short story (3-4 pages with a beginning, middle, and end)
• information essay (5 paragraphs on a topic of their choice)
• opinion essay (5 paragraphs trying to convince someone of their point of view)

We will be finishing our unit on advanced addition and subtraction this week (Unit 4 for 4th and Unit 3 for 5th).  Next week, we start a unit on geometry.

In addition, we are doing a Problem of the Week:

If we all lay down in the hallway around the outside of the Library, could we stretch all the way around? 

We have started our unit on the American Revolution.

Students should read and take notes on Chapter 10: "Tensions Build".

Particular attention should be paid to how King George III would have felt and how the colonists would have reacted to these major events (think Boston Tea Party; Stamp Act; Boston Massacre; etc.).

Class photos are this Friday.  Look for order forms on Wednesday.