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Grezlik Gazette
March 11, 2013
Finally, we have a "normal" week, with 5 full days of school (I hope!) and no big events going on. Well, actually, there is a big event going on in our classroom.... our new weather unit! Today, we had rain, sleet, and I did see some snowflakes this afternoon. Three types of precipitation in one day? That's March for you!
We will spend a few weeks on this new weather unit. Today, we learned about the many layers of our atmosphere. We are putting some of what we learned in a poster and we will share those around tomorrow. We will spend our reading time this week working in our science book, learning about all kinds of weather related information. Other reading materials will be used as well and our test over chapter 8 is scheduled for Friday. Time will be spent next week making some weather instruments and doing some experiments. This unit will continue after Spring Break.
Tomorrow we test over chapter 9 in social studies. There are a number of sites we explored at the end of the day today in the lab that helped kids study. We went over the study guide in class and had a great discussion! Although we will move onto chapter 10 and 11, this will be our last test in social studies this quarter.
During writing this week, we will continue our work researching our Revolutionary War figures. This will include learning how to keep track of our sources by creating a "Works Cited" page. One useful site we'll use is called Easybib.com. Keeping track of where we get information from is responsible and necessary.
Written by: Mrs. Grezlik
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Any student who prints this post, trims it, and pastes it in his or her composition book can turn in their clip and get a blind grab for some Dolphin Dollars. Have a wonderful week!
