Friday May 10

Team Aurora has a new blog post!

We feel so appreciated on the teacher appreciation week. Thank you for the lovely cards and gifts and the wonderful play that Abe, Haily, Annie and Emma put together (will Eli on tech crew.) It was a delight.

This week we practiced a bit to prepare for our ELA SBACS next Monday and Tuesday. Math SBACS for us will be the following week on Tuesday and Wednesday. The best thing you can do to prepare is get a good night's sleep.

We are deep into our fantasy book club books. Students should be at least 2/3 through the book today and finished by next Friday (Bunnicula was to be finished today as it is shorter.)  We read together Carter's Holler for our pre-assessment and discussed story elements and author's craft moves for fantasy like a quest structure and obstacles.  Many students are excited to move onto the second book in the series. If we don't have it, it is begin ordered. We will continue with fantasy until June.

In math, we continue with our study of fractions. We got new math menus this week.

Science has begun. We are studying the environment. As part of this unit we get to go on a field trip on Wednesday to the Ethan Allen Homestead to participate in the Winooski River Valley Conservation Days.  Please get your permission slips in by Monday.

We are pretty wet lately, so students should have a pair of dry clothes at school, particularly socks and shoes.

There will be no big assignments due for the next two weeks due to all the testing. The only due dates are word study due Tuesday (we will start a new one on Wednesday this week) and reading your book to finish by next Friday. We will have time in school to do both of these tasks.

Have a great weekend.