Happy September!
The first month of school is already behind us and we are approaching the end of the interim on September 9th.
Each morning our class gathers together for a morning meeting. We are working on positive interactions in the classroom and creating classroom norms. An example of a classroom norm, "We will talk nicely to one another." Creating a caring and safe environment is an important way to begin our school year.
This week students will be finishing up the first chapter in the math text book, with the focus being on Whole Number Operations, Exponents, Order of Operations, Prime Factorization, Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple. Students will take a quiz on Prime Factorization, Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple on Thursday and a chapter test next week on Tuesday.

The first due date for the science fair is quickly approaching.
Due
Sept 9th .......................    Science Fair Question written in the Science Fair Log 
Sept 20 .......................   Research notes and bibliography written in the Science Fair Log
Sept 22 .......................   Hypothesis written in the Science Fair Log
Sept 29 .......................   Materials list and procedure written in the Science Fair Log
Sept-Nov ....................  Conduct Experiment, dated log entries, numerous trials, variables, controls
                                      identified. Written in Science Fair Log
Nov 18 .......................   Science Fair Project and Log are DUE in Class
Jan 25 .........................   Science Fair Set-Up
Jan 26 .........................   Science Fair Judging
If you are stuck for an idea here is a link that may help you.

Science Fair Ideas
Science Kids
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