Hawkins Happenings

May 2008

Teacher Notes:

Please do not schedule any morning appointments or trips for the week of EOG's in May!!! THANKS!

Writing

Students have been hard at work on their biography research project. They have written a report about their famous person and are in the process of making a puppet. We will have a puppet show next week to share all these great projects!

Reading

The current theme of our reading selections is Nature. Students will be reading about acts of nature such as wildfires and using nature to sustain life. During small group instruction we will be review testing taking strategies by reading long passages and answering comprehension questions.

Social Studies/Science

Mrs. Hawkins/Mrs. Hunsberger's classes are studying Rocks and Minerals in Science. Ms. Robinson/Mrs. Cerullo's classes are studying electricity and magnetism. In Social Studies, the students are working on creating North Carolina map that show the counties as well as fast facts about each region.

Math

We are currently wrapping up our unit on Shapes and Solids. Students have analyzed angles, 3-D shapes, applied rotation, translation and reflection. Students also learned how to find the volume of a shape. Our next unit of study will be focused on Patterns. We will also review test taking skills and strategies for doing well on the End of Grade Test.

Coming Up!

• Friday, May 16 th – EOG Prep Rally (in the afternoon)
• May 19 th - May 21 st - EOG WEEK!
• May 26 th – Memorial Day – No School
• June 3 rd – Super Kids Day (3-5)
• June 10 th – Last Day of School

NC Projects and Program:

What a creative group of 4 th graders! The NC projects were amazing! All four teachers are so proud of all the hard work that the students put it to their projects!! We were so glad that we could put them on display in the Media Center .

Thank you to everyone who came to see the North Carolina program Thursday afternoon. The children were so excited to have large audiences to perform the program for!

Please feel free to email me : lhawkins@wcpss.net