Sunday, March 27, 2016

Weekly Update, Sunday, March 27th, 2016

I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!  I've already received some amazing photos of your fourth graders, please keep the photos coming!  Here are a few pictures from my trip to Laguna Beach, California:
I saw this on one of the sidewalks and immediately thought of when the class learned about our watershed!

My girlfriends and I biked along the coast to Manhattan Beach!

Beautiful views from every angle, there was a strip mall right behind me!

Morning walks on the cliffs!

Now back to the real world...

This week in Academia...

Virginia Studies: Students will finish learning about the Civil War and we will review what we've learned so far.  The Civil War test will be Thursday, March 31st!  Students will continue to work on their foldable this week as well as complete their final notepages in their notebooks.  As always, students should use their study guides and solpass.org to review and prepare for the test!  Additionally, students will receive the information regarding their Colonial Fair Project tomorrow.  Please review this information with your child and return the bottom portion of the form to let me know what topic your child has selected.  

Science: Students (and I) and loving our animals unit right now, we will continue to learn about animals and food chains and food webs.  The test on this unit will be next week.

Reading: Students will finish their book club book this week and have their final book club meeting on Tuesday, March 29th.   Students should have completed their book by then and be prepared to discuss characters, their opinions of the book, and summarize their book.  I will give students time to read tomorrow during class.

Writing: Students will receive their new Word Study words tomorrow.  This week students will learn about how to use singular possessives and how to spell irregular plural nouns.  

Other stuff:
CAREER DAY
Our annual CAREER DAY is scheduled for the morning of TuesdayApril 5. We are currently looking for volunteers to help make this year’s Career Day a success! We’d love you to join us!
If you would be willing to share your occupation with the students at Pinebrook or if you know someone in the community who might be willing to come speak at our school, please contact School Counselors Melissa Roberts or Heather Ross as soon as possible. We can be reached via email at melissa.roberts@lcps.org and heather.ross@lcps.org. Also, please see the Career Day volunteer form attached to this email. Thank you in advance!

Camp STEAM-tacular 
Pinebrook's summer STEAM camp -spots are filling up! Camp will be Monday, June 20th to Friday, June 24th, from 9 am to  3 pm each day. Open to Kindergarten through 5th grade. Each grade has it's own theme and will be fun and educational! Don't miss it!
Register at    www.campsteam-tacular.com

STEAM Expo:
Parent Volunteers NEEDED for our STEAM Expo on April 9th.  Two sessions available: 9:30 am to 12:00 pm and 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. You will help by running an activity - which is easy and fun! Please sign up by going to the Pinebrook website and clicking  on STEAM Expo.

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