As the year winds down, students began clearing out their desks this week. Among these items, they should have brought home two math workbooks. Students may use the remaining pages in these workbooks for supplemental practice over the summer.
Now on to the last update of the year!
Early in the week, we were treated to a presentation by Toby's dad on his work studying philosophy. Students participated in an interesting discussion on the nature of dreams and how philosophers contemplate ethical dilemmas. Thank you to Toby's dad for leading the discussion!
In math this week, we introduced 3-D figures. This is a topic that students will delve further into next year. During 3-D Day, students got a chance to construct some of the polyhedra we discussed. They made some very cool kites and 3-D soccer balls! Big thanks to those of you who assisted students in putting together their projects.
In social studies, students engaged in a debate about the revolutionary war. They were assigned teams and asked to defend the pros/cons of the colonists breaking away from British rule. Students did an excellent job justifying their positions, drawing off of knowledge from our social studies unit and persuasive writing unit.
In writing, students continue to draft their adapted fairytales. The stories are turning out to be very humorous takes on classic tales!
As a reminder, next week students will celebrate the end of the school year with special events in the classroom. One of those will be a viewing of our end of year slideshow, to which you are all invited on Thursday morning at 8:30. I'm looking forward to viewing it with students and those of you who are able to attend!
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