Reading: The kids synthesized their research on the events that lead to the Revolutionary War. They had a choice of showing their notes through timelines, maps, graphs, cartoons, diaries, or news articles. Their work is so clever! Check out a photo or two of the gallery walk in our photo album.
We continued with Edward Tulane, our One Book, One School novel, reading to Chapter 10. Edward has been separated from his first family and acquainted with his second family. He's about to lose them, too! Along the way he's already learned some lessons about love, friendship, and ego. Ask your kids to re-read a few chapters with you (they're short!). Ask them what lessons Edward has learned. Ask him how Abilene's family treated him differently than Nellie and Lawrence.
Social Studies: We kicked off our Economics unit this week! Our entrepreneurs met in the auditorium to watch a clip from the show Shark Tank in preparation for learning about how to grow a business. Today we learned about businesses, consumers, wants, and needs. Talk to your kids about how you as a family make spending decisions (what stores you shop at, how you decide to spend money, etc). Also, if you happen to have extra craft supplies, extra cardboard jewelry boxes, toilet paper rolls, or other craft-y type things laying around, send 'em in! Sometimes kids use them as packaging for their products, or even for the products themselves.
We continued with Edward Tulane, our One Book, One School novel, reading to Chapter 10. Edward has been separated from his first family and acquainted with his second family. He's about to lose them, too! Along the way he's already learned some lessons about love, friendship, and ego. Ask your kids to re-read a few chapters with you (they're short!). Ask them what lessons Edward has learned. Ask him how Abilene's family treated him differently than Nellie and Lawrence.
Social Studies: We kicked off our Economics unit this week! Our entrepreneurs met in the auditorium to watch a clip from the show Shark Tank in preparation for learning about how to grow a business. Today we learned about businesses, consumers, wants, and needs. Talk to your kids about how you as a family make spending decisions (what stores you shop at, how you decide to spend money, etc). Also, if you happen to have extra craft supplies, extra cardboard jewelry boxes, toilet paper rolls, or other craft-y type things laying around, send 'em in! Sometimes kids use them as packaging for their products, or even for the products themselves.
Math: We've moved into the second half of our fractions unit. This week we learned about using various models to represent the addition and. multiplication of basic fractions. We used number lines, tape diagrams, and number bonds. Ask your kids to draw a picture or use a number bond to represent an equation like 6 - (2/5).
Science: Your kids are enjoying a unit with Mr. Lukehart, studying life science. Ask them about what they're up to!
Miscellaneous:
Miscellaneous:
- For the month of April, Whittier Student Council will help Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry fight hunger in a friendly competition with other Oak Park schools to see who can earn the most points (earned through donated food, dollars, and volunteer hours.). You can support Team Whittier by contributing online here, bringing canned goods to school, and volunteering at the food pantry (just make sure to tell them you're from Whittier School!)
- Be sure to sign up for Mystery Reader
- This year, we are going to do the End of the Year Picnic RSVPs online using this google form. It will be in the Tuesday News but can you share this also with homeroom teachers so they can add to their newsletter? Betsy would like everyone to RSVP by May 15th. All the details are included in the form. https://docs.google.com/forms/
d/e/ 1FAIpQLScSTCSaysQ18v8fnl1dwwu3 61YnINQlOmaJbdU9R1h8rRk8wA/ viewform?usp=pp_url
- Room 302's Annual Charity Sale is next week on April 24th and April 25th! Students have been working hard to create a variety of handmade crafts in Mrs. Madsen's class. The price range is $.50 to $3.00. Some of the items will be fuzzems, tooth pillows, rainbow loom bracelets, bookworms and Edward Toulane buttons. This year's charities are The World Wildlife Federation and Northwestern Memorial Foundation targeting breast cancer research. Classroom teachers will sign up for a time. Thank you for supporting our 16th annual sale.
