Friday April 12

Team Aurora has a new blog post!

Hello Aurora friends!

Here is the news for this week.

Aurora is going to the movies! Next Friday, we voted as part of our team celebration, to attend the film Penguins from Disney Nature (see trailer.) This fits in with our last weeks Jane Goodall foray and our upcoming environmental science unit. Plus, it's always fun to go to the movies.

Speaking of science, Mr. Warren came to our fifth grade community meeting this morning to psych us up for the BRMS SCIENCE FAIR on May 8.  To prepare, all Aurorians will participate in the wing science fair on May 3rd. To do this, students need to develop a testable question. We will then test the question and write up a science "report" on a presentation board with hypothesis, date and conclusions.  Any group who wants to take it to the next step, will be ready to make improvements for the May 8 school contest.

The week we return from April break will be SCIENCE WEEK on team Aurora. We will work on science fair projects and take our science SBACS on May 1 and 2 (what fun!).

This week and next, we are finishing our EXPLORERS unit in social studies. This will mean completing our bio books by Wednesday, April 17. This is a summative project for social studies.

We are also starting our fantasy reading unit next week by picking our book club groups. This will give people a chance to start reading over vacation.

Congratulations again to our NHD participants. Ms. Thompson made this cool video. Kai, Audrey, Fisher, Abe and Hailey were awesome. More kids should join next year.