Friday, June 1st, 2019

This week has been smoky, exciting, and hot. 

In Social Studies and Language Arts we finished Chapter 10 of Ticket to Curlew. The Martingales lost their oxen, and Sam helped to find them on his horse named Prince. He met up with Gregor who is hopefully going to help him find the oxen. 

We also worked on our persuasive letter, where we received peer feedback to improve our letters. 

Before our visit to OH Ranch, we learned about sustainability, stewardship and ranching vs. faming. We learned that:

• Sustainability is not wasting resources (ex: water, food and things we use to survive).
• Stewardship is taking care of something (ex: the environment and our resources).
• Ranching is raising animals as the main products (ex: livestock).
• Farming is growing farms or raising livestock to collect resources from them.

On Thursday we visited OH Ranch. We played some games, like predator/prey tag and horseshoes, fed horses named Piper and George, made skipping ropes, tried barrel racing, went on a nature walk, sketched the landscape on two side of a hill (we notice that one side had more sun than the other which affects the type of plant growth) and analyzed the plants that were out on the ranch. At lunchtime, we saw a stampede of bucking stock horses thunder past us. 

This week in Science we watched a Bill Nye video about plants. We also went out to our field and completed a "see, think, wonder" field study about plants. 

In Math we practiced for our multiplication check-in, and on Wednesday we had the real check-in. 

Last Friday, Aylah and Maddie presented their passion project about Mexico. We learned about the foods, flowers and facts about Mexcio!

Our spelling pattern next week: Each prefix below has a meaning, and it changes the meaning of the base word or root that it is added to.

ex = out of or from

de = down or away from

dis and un = not or the opposite of

ad = to, at or toward

Here are a few examples:

express

design

unknown

admit

unclear

explore

disagree

defend

unreal

adventure

unwise

disclose

advice

excuse

disinterested

dishonest

unprepared

unpleasant

advance

adverb

Reminders:

• June 3-6 - Hoop dancing in Gym all week and next week
• June 4th - Agricultural Program presentation
• June 7th - Evergreen Theatre will be presenting "The Three Little Pigs and the B.B. Wolf"
• June 7th - Book orders due
• June 12 - Library books due

Have a magnificent weekend!