The Gremillion Gazette

"Class News from Inspired Minds"

From the teacher's desk...

It's hard to believe that we've only got a few more weeks left in this school year. The children are hard at work creating businesses for our final IB planner. Expect them to come home asking your assistance in purchasing supplies for their products. You become an investor in the business as the children learn about costs, selling price, and profit.  We will hold our business fair the week of May 19 every morning from 8:30 to 9:30. Hope you'll stop by this incredible event. Class awards and student led conferences will be held May 27 at 8:30. We will send home more information in the May 13 Tuesday folder. Look for a summer reading list also in the next couple of weeks.

 Email me at mgremill@houstonisd.org.

What We're Learning

MATHEMATICS

Unit 9 - assessment

Unit 10 - volume, weight, capacity, mean and median, frequency distributions, coordinate grids

Readers Workshop: shared reading of poetry (student selected), book clubs - students will form groups around shared areas of interest , i.e. topic, author, history, mysteries, biography. Students will read, discuss and complete projects  of their choosing to present to the class.

Time for Kids weekly magazine  - reading for information

LANGUAGE ARTS

Writers Workshop: unit of study  on the writerly life - collecting entries, choosing a seed idea, drafting, revise leads and endings, editing for paragraphs, and publishing

Wordly Wise - unit 11 assessment, then completion of units 12 - 15

 SCIENCE

Lab process skills

SOCIAL STUDIES

An American Dream - central idea: People create structure within a business system

Children will develop and run their own businesses.

Homework Helper

READING

30 minutes each night, complete reading log

WRITING

Twice a week writers notebook

MATH

Daily assignments

SPELLING AND VOCABULARY

twice a week spelling activies/ Wordly Wise exercises

Where We Are 2:05-2:50              Lunch 11:47 - 12:17

A         Dance                       11:15 Library

B         P.E.

C         Spanish                  

D         Art                            1:15 Science Lab

E         Music                       1:00  Computer Lab

WOW moments 

* Amazing ideas and excitement about businesses!