This week in 5th Grade

Good evening!   First, I'd love to thank whichever family it was who purchased lunches this week at school for me.  I appreciate it-- it's such a treat to have lunch prepped for me (and I usually bring leftovers, so it's even more special!)

Bible 1 Peter 2:12 - this is a review verse.
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits.

 THIS WEEK...We're talking about what it means to be a Christian in a world that increasingly finds it difficult to live with us.  We continue to pray for specific countries, and today for Nepal and North Thurston High School in particular.  We're also reading about a young lady in Papua New Guinea who is a believer but has a friend who participates in ancestor worship.  We spend a lot of time talking about what sets Christianity apart from every other belief system...grace and love and hope.

READING
We're about 1/3 of the way through Number the Stars.  Today we enhanced our reading and looked through pictures of Denmark and specifically Copenhagen where the story is set.  We also talked a little about the history of Scandinavia just to get a feel for what Annemarie's life was like and how it was very different from ours. Students saw some prehistoric art, Viking ships,  armor and arms, crown jewels, a royal castle, Copenhagen 's bicycles, an Industrial Revolution factory, and lots of buildings.  Most of them stayed awake. :) They liked Tivoli Gardens,  home of the world's second oldest roller coaster.  (Scary old. I rode it.)

Reading logs are due Thursday, but I'll also accept them Friday due to passport being moved to this week. 

HISTORY

Students were fairly close to finishing their governor shields if they chose to do that rather than a report.  Those came home to be completed if they weren't done. We'll watch some edited "How the States Got Their Shapes " over church and state, dialects, and natural resource booms like the California Gold Rush. 
 Our states and capitals this week are 40. Albany, New York  41. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 42. Trenton, New Jersey.  Most students did fairly well on the 1-39 states Review.  We'll be done soon with the 50 states and taking our final test over the whole set. 

SPELLING
Lesson 30, a review- Due Friday.  Encourage your kids to finish strong!

LANGUAGE ARTS
Nouns- all the ways we can classify nouns: plurals. 

SCIENCE- Finishing the basics of the human body this week.  Three states of matter will be next. 

PASSPORT this Thursday. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS and BIBLIOGRAPHY (2 sources only, MLA, handout went home Friday)
due 4/30 as well. 

 5th graders received a lot of compliments over the part few weeks and earned a HOT COCOA RUN this Thursday at 8:30.  We'll be back in time for Passport.  They've earned a treat.  Bring about $1.75   and we'll drive over to our friendly neighborhood Starbucks for  kids' hot cocoas.  We could use about 6 more seat belts and a mom or dad to drive us as well.

MOM's Day Lunch  May 8.