Students will be coming home with opinion published pieces next week! They are looking for family members to read their essays and give them positive feedback. This sheet will be attached to their published personal essays. Enjoy!

Todd Simcox Visits

Students have been reading nonfiction and are participating in research teams. Each team is responsible for reading, note taking, synthesizing and summarizing subtopics they assigned themselves on a natural disaster or extreme weather.

Students generated a list of question for meteorologist, Todd Simcox of WABI TV5. During his visit students listened to his answers to their questions, showed us pictures of the studio and tools he uses to forecast the weather.

Students are creating their own google slides to share their research learning and hard work.

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Social Studies- Tour of the Northeast

One stop on our tour of the Northeast was visiting the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania, one of the largest chocolate factories in the world. We learned that the NE region was a place where many factories started for two reasons: water power and there were plenty of people to work in them.

Students got to participate as factory workers as cutters, placers and wrappers of candy. They got to think about how they might feel if they had to do that job for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. We also shared positives and negatives about if a machine could do the work as a candy wrapper.