Drop-off for Outdoor School by 7am Tuesday 9/27.
5th Grade Math -
This week, we did a lot of hands on work finding factor pairs, exploring halving and doubling as a multiplication strategy using the Associative Property of multiplication.
We had 1 Home Work Connection - Better Boxes due 9/22
Alder East Reading -
All students should have at least one book they are reading home. This year, students will track all the books they read and use that info to track reading, and set reading goals.
At School, we track all the books we begin and whether it's a book they finished, or abandoned (because if it's not a good fit they should find another book that is), what genre it is, along with notes and impressions of each book.
At Home, students keep track of daily reading and get parent signatures.
Our weekly Reading Log was due Friday 9/23.
No Reading Log next week because of Outdoor School.
Alder East Writing -
This week, we began Informative Writing with cause and effect relationships. Informative Writing will be tied into our Humanities unit on Invasive Species, as students will research and investigate the cause and effect of invasive species here in Oregon and the United States.
Alder East Humanities -
This week we surveyed biodiversity across campus observing, logging and describing animal and plant species found in sample plots from different parts of school grounds and used that information to draw conclusions about the destructive impact
an invasive species or disease could have on our campus community.