Angelville News

BON DIA

Week 30

April 20, 2010

RAVES:

*The 4th graders for all of their hard work in the garden - Go 4th GRADE :)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

*Blessing of the garden, April 23rd at 9:30am in the garden, I hope you are all able to attend. 4th grade will be putting on this prayer service. Bishop Tyson will also be in attendance.

ACADEMICS:

*We have many things going on this week. I want to begin with the preparation of the garden and prayer service. The prayer service will have an Earth Day theme since the 40th anniversary of Earth Day is April 22nd. April is also National Gardening month and Poetry Month. Both of these will contribute to our prayer service.

*Another exciting thing going on is the beginning script of our Digital Story. We are on a scheduled time line to have the digital story completed by the end of May. As soon as the story is complete we will welcome all of you in to view it with us. We will have our own mini file festival toward the end of the year to debut our Story. We are consulting with Bridges 2 Understanding on this project. Our story should then be displayed on their website. If you are interested and would like to go on the http://www.bridges2understanding.org/ you can view some of the digital stories other schools in the world have completed. This is a big deal and we would be one of just a few schools from the US. I am going to need some parent volunteers to help students capture digital pictures in and around our school community. If you are interested please contact me via my e-mail, mizschmutz@gmail.com. I'm hoping to have a shot list soon.

*In reading/SS we continue to learn about the Oregon Trail. We will work on Chapters 8 and 9 of the SS text book. I am now scheduling for the Oregon Trail/Missionaries Test to take place Friday, April 30th. I will not make up a review guide for this test. Students will use their Lost Wagon Train journal and notes and work from Chapters 8/9 to review for this test. We will also review in class next week.

*In math we continue to review line graphs, probability, ordered pairs, statistics, mean, median, mode. We will have a test on the Algebra Unit Wednesday, April 28th.

*Everyone is working on their Expository Writing on their chosen Artist. My MSL students are getting help from Mrs. Corr in MSL. I hope to have these near completion by the end of the week. We will then work on the art projects to go along with the expositors. I will then display them on the outside of the classroom. I will let you know when they are displayed so you can come up and view them.

Hoping to see you all on Friday. If you have any questions about this week please contact me via e-mail.