Landform Islands

Here's the beginning of our landform island project. We'll continue working to finish our landforms and begin the brochure later on this week. We've had so much fun creating!

Junior Achievement

Our class is lucky to have a Junior Achievement volunteer for the next 6 weeks. Our volunteer's name is Blair and she works at a local credit union. Blair will help our class acquire the knowledge and economic reasoning skills to make wise financial decisions now and in the future. The curriculum is aligned to our social studies, reading, math, and writing standards. By the end of our unit, students will be able to:

• Describe a community
• Identify the variety of careers people have in a community and how each job requires specific skills
• Identify how businesses and government jobs help a community
• Explain how taxation supports government services
• Recognize voting as a way citizens act and contribute to meet a community's needs
• Describe the flow of money in a community's economy

Take a look at our first class! Each student was given a "job" and found the location of their job on a community map. 

Next week students will work together to create a product to sell. I hear this lesson ends with donuts!

Word Study April 11-15, 2016

Here are the word study video links for the week of April 11-15, 2016

Yellow List: Sort # 28 or, ore, oar, w+or

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Green List: Sort #40 Final e: -ce, -ve, -se, -ze

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Blue List #47 Long -a homophones

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Lanforms Final Project--Making Our Own Island!

Hi Families,

Next week we'll be doing a super fun culminating activity to our landforms unit. Each student will use salt dough to create an imaginative island that includes 5 landforms. After building and painting their island, students will design and write a postcard as if they were a visitor to the island or a brochure encouraging visitors to their island. To make enough salt dough for each child to do this project, I'll need some donations. If you are able to donate a container of salt, a bag of flour (regular white all-purpose), or $2 towards purchasing supplies, I would very much appreciate it! We'll start this project next Tuesday, so donations can be brought tomorrow or Monday.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Mrs. Hoschouer 

DonorsChoose.org Grant

Hi Families,

I want to make sure my students have the materials they need to succeed, so I just created a DonorsChoose.org classroom request. 

Empowering Students Through Art with Surrealist Elephants 

Give to my classroom by April 9, 2016 and your donation will be doubled thanks to DonorsChoose.org. Just enter the code LIFTOFF during checkout and you'll be matched dollar for dollar (up to $100). 

In return, you'll get awesome photos of your gift in action and our heartfelt thanks. 

Thank you so much,
Ana Hoschouer

P.S. If you know anyone who may want to help my students, please pass this along!