// Curriculum Update, Mid-May //

Week of May 20

Students worked on compiling a field journal of leaves by collecting specimens from the park and writing about them. They also had a lesson about the parts of flowers and their functions. Students learned about adverbial phrases (4th levels) and types of clauses (5th levels) in Language. They also wrote “mask” poems, in which they imagined life from the point of view of an inanimate object, in Writers’ Workshop. Week of

May 13

Students continued their studies of plants and plant adaptations this week. They had a chance to work with a partner in labeling parts of plants and taking notes about their functions. In History, students began thinking about how they will design a culminating project about early Americans. They also spent some time working on our spring standardized assessment.