Week 34 Class Blogger, New Novel Unit

 Enjoy listening to strings as you read today!

By Lucy and Reese

This week was pretty basic. It was a chill week, we didn't really change our schedule. WE have had a great year with each other and the end of the school year is coming up. ALthough, We are all very excited for summer, we will miss our classmates. We are doing softball right now in pe. In t math we had a quiz and so did G-Math
. Have a nice day! See ya!

 

FROM Mrs. R:

 

As the school year winds down, we have a lot of exciting things happening!

 

- A field trip permission slip has been sent home for our end of the year trip. We will be looking for some parents to chaperone and join us on our trip! If you are interested in coming along for this trip, please let me know! 

 

- LIBRARY BOOKS: Are due MONDAY! Our lovely library staff has added a little incentive this year. The first class to return all books earns donuts!

 

- Faith Family Book Drive: Wednesday during our Faith Family time, we decorated bookmarks to put in gently used books that we will be donating to Bethlehem Lutheran Childcare and Friends of the St. Charles Library. If you have some books that are no longer getting love at home, please bring them in! 6R has been challenged to bring in a stack of books taller than Mrs. R.!!   What a great way to give back to our community! 

 

- Julia's Birthday: On May 14, we will be celebrating one of our lunch room workers, Julia's, birthday! Students can wear ANY purple shirt and uniform bottoms in order to help celebrate her! 

 

May 15 is "Dress like a Church Worker day"  See Zion email for specifics. 

              Last day for AR tests

 

Looking Ahead:

- NO HOT LUNCH on Field Day, May 16, or the last week of school. Please pack a cold lunch!

 

Tuck Everlasting

WHAT IF YOU COULD LIVE FOREVER????  In Literature, students have begun the novel,  Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.  Kids are leading small group discussions in "book club" format, with the roles of Discussion Director, Passage Picker, Connector, Illustrator, and Word Wizard.  We will be exploring the literary elements of foreshadowing, character development, motive, and universal theme as the characters ponder the benefits and downfalls of living forever.  It will be exciting to look at the novel through the eyes of faith as we discussed God's original design in Eden as well as our eternal life in the heavenly home he has prepared for us.  Students are discovering the blessings God gives us in this life through the many stages we live and even more blessings to be received in eternity with Him!  We will culminate the novel with creative projects.

READING IS INDEPENDENT for much of the book.  An audio version is available on GC through youtube (search title and chapter).

 

Win at Social today 

Title: Exploring the relationship between sleep, memory, and learning

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Family Huddle

Continue the conversation at home:

1. TOSS UP: If your pillow could talk, what would it say about your sleep habits?
2. COACH UP: How could you help adults understand that using screens before bed can mess with sleep — and get them to actually follow that advice themselves?
3. HUDDLE UP: Imagine you are working on a group project but one teammate is super cranky from being sleep-deprived. How do you handle it respectfully?

Reading our novel as a Book Club

Discussion director, Word Wizard

 

Passage Picker, Connector

Illustrator all take turns leading the discussions