Colonial Studies and Congrats on the Spelling Bee!

This week we will continue working on a few projects that we started earlier last week.  The kids chose to work on a colonial newspaper, do an iMovie news report, or design a fort for the French and Indian War.  We will be presenting this near the end of the week to our class mates.  We will also start reading from our Harcourt reading series about the Iditarod in preparation for following the race in March and our own iKidarod, that we did for the first time last year!  It was a ton of fun, we will do it a little differently this year.  More info coming soon!

Congratulations to Thadeus for first place at the Quincy fifth grade spelling bee and Riley for runner up!  It came down to just one word! 

CAMP MONEY:

Almost everyone is paid.  If you still owe for camp and want to break the payment up please let me know. 

I will be gone on Tuesday for a science training at the Van Andel Institute. .  The kids overall did a great job on our weekly reading assessment this week! Our class average was 91.3%! 

I can…

Describe some of the causes that led the colonists to want separate from England

Write to Persuade.

Use multiple strategies to solve division equations using decimals