Manoa Mountains News for January 31, 2008
The Manoa Mountains have been very busy with their writing projects, and some are publishing their work on the computers. It will be nice to share the completed stories with the class. Most have selected a creative story to publish at this time.
Everyone should be working on their next book report project, which will be due for presentation on Monday, February 25, at 10:00 AM. We are looking forward to some creative visual aids and speeches. The Reading Log entries have become more detailed, so there is lots of information to choose from to prepare these projects.
Our math work is progressing nicely, and the fourth graders have brought home their Unit 3 work. The third graders will bring their Unit 3 work home next week after all their corrections are completed. They are enjoying working with perimeter, angles, and area. Yesterday they created a seven-square-unit figure with squares and two different sizes of triangles. They are continuing to solve story problems to challenge their thinking.
The "Jump Rope for Heart" permission forms are due soon, so I would appreciate it very much if everyone can turn it in early. We need lots of parent volunteers to help for this event, too.
Everyone is doing a great job on their Literature Circle and vocabulary work every day. The stories for Literature Circle have been challenging in content, as we have worked with longer legends about Kauai. The vocabulary words come from the stories and help everyone to learn their meanings.
We are entering a poetry contest sponsored by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Starbucks, so everyone has written their thoughts about maintaining a healthy diet. They have been discussing ways to be healthy in PE class, so their ideas are very important to them.
Now that we have begun test preparations, the third graders are working on their Test Achiever books and D'Nealian handwriting books every week. The fourth graders will use their Test Achiever books and Scoring Higher to help them prepare for the SAT tests in April.
Posted on January 31, 2008 6:18 AM | Permalink