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Student of the Month
Congratulations to Gabriel Romero for being our April Student of the Month! Gabriel works very hard and is always willing to help out his classmates and teachers.
No School
Friday, April 2- Good Friday
April 5-9- Spring Break
Friday April 23- Professional Development
Neighborhood Beautification
Our class will be taking part in a neighborhood beautification project from 9:00-11:00 on Tuesday, April 20. We will be planting flowers in pots, and then taking care of them for several weeks before they will be planted around town and around this neighborhood.
Max and Erma’s Fundraiser
Bring your family to Max and Erma’s for dinner on Thursday, April 22 for a Cole Academy fundraiser. More information will be coming home soon about this event.
Future Dates to Mark on the Calendar
Thursday, June 3- Cole Academy Music Review, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Monday, June 7- Sixth Grade Graduation, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 10- Cole Academy Family Picnic at Hawk Island
What We Are Learning
Reading
We recently began three different Literature Circle books. A different group is now reading Things Not Seen, about a boy who wakes up and is invisible. One group is reading Walk Two Moons, a Newbery Medal award-winning book about a girl named Sal and her travels across the country with her grandparents. The third group is reading My Side of the Mountain, an adventure book about a boy named Sam who ran away to live alone in the wilderness.
Math
We just finished our chapter on decimals. Now we are beginning a chapter on factoring numbers, prime and composite numbers, least common multiples, greatest common factors, and equivalent fractions.
Writing
The class just finished their March articles for the Cole Chronicle, and they completed their folktales. The students did a great job with their folktales and wrote excellent dialogue between the characters. They were very creative with either explaining why things happen, or explaining how characters learned a lesson.
Social Studies
The class just finished learning their South American countries and capitals and did a great job on their test over all of them. They have successfully learned all the major countries and capitals of the entire Western Hemisphere! We just finished a chapter about the countries of Middle America and Spanish-speaking South America, and we will soon begin a chapter on Brazil.
Science
Everyone did a great job on their Science Fair projects! We were really pleased with how they turned out and with how well the students understood the concepts. We just began a unit on force and motion, and will be learning about simple and compound machines.
Mrs. Sharrock
Mrs. Averill
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