May 2-6

A wild and wonderful week wrapped up!

Art Museum Reception
We are so excited that the 3/4/5 class’s artwork celebrating children who have made a difference in Human Rights will be on display on the second floor of the IU Art Museum May 9th-29th! The reception is Thursday from 5:30-6:30! Thank you for pitching in on the goodies to make it extra celebratory for the kids! The sign up sheet is here. You can bring your donations directly to the museum that evening. Hope to see you all there!

Writer’s Workshop

Students finalized rough drafts of their Historical Fiction stories. During our writing conferences, we talked about things like how we can make things a little more clear for our readers or about how to make sure the time and setting is recognizable. Many students began creating illustrations or typing up their drafts. Next week we will revise and edit!

Reader’s Workshop

This week we continued reading Elijah of Buxton, our historical fiction read aloud. In book clubs, students examined the interactions between characters and did some research about some of the real historical figures mentioned in the book, Frederick Douglass and John Brown.

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Committees continued their work to help our school save energy. Below are reports from each committee 🙂

• Energy-Flip Facts: As the flip facts group we have been working on the design for the flip facts and actually facts to put into the flip facts and other fun facts. Something that we need to work on is actually the people that have the job to research actually research. We are also helping some other groups giving signs and posters one of our posters and giving presentations group some pamphlets. So far we are doing really good on our design we just need to research facts and put them in the flip facts. I hope that this project works out and that we can finish and help people have a better understanding of how to save more energy. From: The Flip Facts Family

• Reasearch-interveiw:  Right now we are doing really well in our group. On Thursday, may sixth Ms. Pam gave us a meter for measuring. On Wedsday, May fourth, we intervweiwed Ms. laura, and Mr. Scott and we also found out that we don’t really need the air on all the time (the air condishiner!!) We found out we can be a great group if we work together. 

• Posters and Signs: In this committee we first brainstormed our ideas of what we would do. Next we started making drafts of posters, then we finalized the ideas on blank pieces of printer paper. Finally we are planning to put  the posters around the school.

• Skits and Announcements:  What We Have Done        
  • We have finished our slideshow       
  • We have a good idea on what the “Three House” skit should include.
  • We have two choices of lyrics to choose from

  Currently we are working on: A “Three House” skit (One house uses too much energy, one house uses a good amount of energy, and one house uses no energy at all! I can’t say why, but it makes me think of igloos)

  Where Are going: We might or might not make a stop-motion animation. The “Three house” skit is a work in progress; we are getting closer, are not close but are not far, we are approaching close.

  

Genius Hour

Students had time on Friday to continue their exploration and planning for their Genius Hour independent projects. Everything from solar panels to robotics to crafts and organizing is filling the room!

Testing

ISTEP is completely wrapped up! The kids were amazing. Our next round of standardized testing is just around the corner with NWEA, but is not as time intensive as ISTEP, thankfully!

Spring Conferences

Thanks to so many who have already signed up for spring conferences! Your child will help lead these conferences and I think you’ll love hearing their reflections on their year! Please use this link to sign up!

Snacks

Thank you for the healthy snacks! The individually wrapped and easily handed out snacks have been WONDERFUL! Next week’s families are: Simmons, Wild, Brackee, Davis

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and mother figures! Based on today’s morning meeting share, it sounds like there is a lot of breakfast in bed happening in Bloomington this weekend! 🙂 Thank you for raising such amazing human beings and for sharing them with me! ❤