See you at Fun Night!

Seussville Family Fun Night:....is tonight!  See you at Pine Ridge from 5:30-8:00.  To say that the class is excited today is a bit of an understatement. :)

A huge THANK YOU  to Dirk Hollebeek:  On Monday Dirk Hollebeek came from the Middle school and shared his experience about living in New Mexico.  He taught many students who lived within the Navajo tribe and was able to share their culture with the class.  We compared this to the Native Americans of Michigan. What a blast!

Upcoming dates:

• March 22-Skating Party
• March 28 and 29-Evening Conferences  March 30- afternoon conferences.  If you would prefer to meet at a different date/time, please contact me and we will work something out.
• March 31-April 8- Spring Break
• Reading minutes due Monday
• Work Work test on Friday
• Matthew 28:1-10 due on Friday, March 25

Here is a brief look at what we have been doing:

Math:  We finished our fractions unit and took our final test.  Next week we will begin multi-step story problems.

Literacy:  You guessed it...more work with our nonfiction book!  :)  This week we worked on our conclusions, our title page, and putting our glossary together.  We are SO close to being done and the kids are excited for you to see the final product.

Bible:  We traveled in the book of Exodus again this week.  We read chapters on water from the rock at Rephidim, the Amalekites, and Jethro coming to visit Moses.  We talked about how God equips Moses to lead the Isrealites and He guides them through tough times.  We also published Matthew 28 on a keynote presentation.  

Social Studies:  This week we studied the British coming to Michigan to get involved in the fur trade.  We covered a bit of the French and Indian War and learned about Chief Pontiac.

Music Note from Mrs. Boer - This is what we learned this quarter....

*Three hymns of the month - Stand on the Rock, I Walk by Faith, and In the Lord I'll Be Ever Thankful (in Spanish)

*Musical form (AB, AABA, ABA)

*To create our own composition based on Hot Cross Buns

*We began playing recorders (how to care for them and play them)

*We began learning how to read music (the musical alphabet, lines & spaces on a stave, a poem for the lines of treble clef)

***Recorder Practicing Expectations: For the best learning to occur, the practicing of the recorder should take place at least 3 days a week and practicing each song 3 times (3X3). The dark blue folder and the recorder should accompany your child to every music class from now until the end of the year.

Blessings!
Lynae