Montana History

Wow-what a busy day. We started Montana History today by starting the book Sacajawea. We are going to read chapter by chapter together and outline each chapter to practice that skill. Wow-we have learned a lot already and only read the first part of chapter 1. We are also locating places on our Montana & US maps. This is going to be an extensive study and the students are responsible for taking it seriously and learning a lot about our amazing state. We will also be taking a field trip to Pompey's Pillar on May 13.

In Reading, we started the book Pathki Nana which is about a girl in the Kootenai Tribe from the Flathead Reservation. This is an awesome story about a girl who overcomes a lot to find herself and learns to believe and feel good about herself.

Our operation egg drop project has been moved up to Thursday as that is supposed to be a beautiful day and Friday looks not so good (like today) so let's have them here by THURSDAY. If your child has started, please write egg drop in their planner for free money.

We started new book clubs today. We will be doing these more like the traditional book clubs go where students will read daily, come up with questions, predictions, etc. and then discuss them in depth and piggy back off of what others say to really discuss the book. I can't wait to see how they transfer this as we worked on it lots this year with my help. We have 3 different ones going. Ask your child the name of their book for free money at check in. Read 180 kids, write down what you are reading in there.

In Math, we are working on measurement and changing units like inches to feet, etc. Difficult concept, but we will get there.

Have a great night and let's hope for our nice weather to come back.