Week of May 19-23, 2025
*This week wraps-up our "Last 20 Days Countdown" of different activities each day. This week: M-APC Booklets (Autograph, Positive Comments); T-ice cream sundaes in the afternoon; W-Group Games Froggers and Zip Zap Zop; Th-Build and share marble tracks & last PE day in elementary while the teacher reveal is taking place; F-field day and awards, then early release around 1:00. Junior High, here they come!
* WIN Time has ended for this year--it does continue in junior high.
*Be sure to check-out the photo gallery; I've included an album of May pictures (field trip, history walk, airplanes); photos will stay in the galleries for most of the summer.
*Chess does not meet anymore this year. Next year's schedule will be posted on this webpage mid-summer. Keep on playing on break! :)
May, 2025 monthly newsletter added--Check it out!! It has updated general info every month and is available through a link on the left side of my webpage at pcwolves.net.
Scott BR Book reading: Last project of the year finishes for Night of the Twisters and mainly focuses on using context clues to define specific words listed. For each of the twelve specifically chosen vocabulary words (page numbers provided), kids are figuring-out what each means, citing/typing quoted evidence that helps determine the meaning, and then explaining HOW the evidence helps lead to the meaning they decided. This can be tricky, as most kids want to just say "I figured it out from the text" or "the text told me what it meant." But, with close reading, paying attention to details, and using inference skills, a two-to-three sentence elaboration can help explain the thought process. This slideshow and signed bookmark will be due this Tuesday, May 20, right before the end of the year (Chromebooks have to be turned in at the beginning of the week, so this project needs to be on time).
"In-Class" Reading: Finishing up in class this week: Slideshow to help define the theme of Altruism. Together, we've listed words from an article with a positive connotation in order to create a class definition for Altruism. Before reading two main texts ("Zoo Story" and "Saving Grace"), two fables that can easily be compared and contrasted will be read together: "The Magic Gourd" and "Why the Sea is Salt." Cause and effect will also be a major focus of those two stories.
Scott Math--Monday: ixl or finish the PC history timeline started last week. HW: ixl for practice. Tuesday: xy coordinate picture (plot points, connect). HW: None. Wednesday: 50 problems that each have an answer from 1-50--this is a whole-class cooperative assignment and we did a similar one the very first day of school. HW: none. Thursday: Math time will be used for building a paper marble track (part of the countdown). Later in the day, kids will try each other's tracks. Friday: no math due to field day.
Language: Some end-of-year writing activities will take place this week, mostly on paper due to having to turn-in Chromebooks. These include: group patterned sentences using cartoons as prompts, ABCs of 6-S (to hang-up for the reveal day), and a last reflection for the year.
Social Studies: Since local history has become the focus, a timeline of dates relevant to PC and Stephenson County will be finished this week as a crossover of SS and Math (half the class has finished). Guess & Draw, single syllable rhymes, and circle work will fill-out the irregular times we have this week.
Science: To prepare for Tuesday's "Classes of Vertebrates" quiz, students have a study guide and cards of vertebrate traits The study-guide can be signed for extra credit. Please encourage extra practice to prepare.