Thursday, February 21, 2013

2-21-13 Daily Update

Parents, 

Science experiment.    Wow!  My e-mail was dinging all night with submissions of the paper clip surface tension challenge. (14 students so far)  See all of the pictures I received posted at the class website.  (Some early submissions are now on another page.  Click "older" at the bottom to see those, too.)

http://mrpdailyupdate.blogspot.com/

Culture Boxes.  Today, Mr. Manos handed out directions for the culture box project your child will be completing in Social Studies .  This is a terrific project in which students will research a country of their heritage, create a "culture box" of artifacts related to this country, and present on this to the class.  Like all big projects, the key is to break it down into smaller parts and to start early. A copy of the letter that went home today is attached.  It has a sign and return portion at the bottom.

Reminders:

  • Movie night is Friday. 

-Mr. Pransky


Language

None


Reading:  

Read Scholastic News and complete Quiz Whiz


Read your AR book for 15-20 minutes each night

AR Goal for Friday, February 15 is 54%


Social Studies:  

None.


Science

None.

Math:   

None.


Spelling:  

Lesson 20 Test - Thursday, February 28

SpellingCity - quiz and play games using each week's list words


Quick Links:

Class Blog- frequently used links and daily updates.

Home Connect - check AR reading and Accelerated Math, or practice with Math Facts in a Flash

Google Apps - check school e-mail and use google applications (un: last name_firstname    pw: aw + 6 digit lunch code)

Moodle - web links and resources for every subject! (un: lastname_firstname    pw: 6 digit lunch number)

Pearson  - Access math book and worksheets from the math book (un: last name_firstname    pw: aw + 6 digit lunch code)

AR Book Find - Do you have a book at home or from another library that you are wondering if it is AR?  Look it up here.

Infohio - Awesome resource for web research with online encyclopedias for kids among other things (un: infohio  pw:power)
Scholastic Book Order - Class Activation Code: F8273


--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade