May 18 Newsletter

Congratulations to our Washington Wizards Track Team for a great job at the meet on Tuesday!

NC MUSEUM PROJECT: 

Students should be working on their exhibits for their museum projects at home. They have the next 3 weeks to work on their exhibit. They will most likely need your help to break their project into steps to work on daily and providing materials.

Many students use tri-fold boards as in science fairs, other have posters, models, powerpoint presentations (we have laptops they will be able to set up at their exhibit spot), even video presentations.  Dressing up as a historical figure and giving a monologue is also allowed. I have copied the Rubric for the project at the end of this blog for reference. Students were given the rubric last Monday and we went over the requirements for getting a level 3. Students will complete a 5 paragraph essay at school and have access to internet and the media center books and reference materials. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. We hope that many of you will be able to visit the museum on June 4 from 10:30-11:30. All fourth grade classrooms are participating in the project.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL:
Please let me know if your child's last school day will be any day other than June 8. We do a number of special things that day, and some advance notice if a child will be absent is helpful so that we can properly say goodbye.

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 18- 7:00pm Band Concert, Media Center
May 19- 7:00pm Strings Concert Media Center

May 21- Language Arts EOG, 9:20am

May 22- Math EOG, 9:20am

May 29- Field Day,9:30am (K-2),  1pm (3-5)
June 3-9:30 am 5th Grade vs. Staff Kickball game

June 4- Museum Projects Due, Museum Open 10:30-11:30am
June 8- Last day of school

Curriculum Notes…. Here’s what we are working on now:

• Language Arts: Using the RUNNERS strategy for comprehension of fiction and non-fiction passages. 
• Math: Measurement- Customary and Metric Systems, Quiz on Thursday
• Review of 4th grade math vocabulary and concepts
• Social Studies: NC State Constitution
• Science: Animal Studies with Mr. Ash
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Museum Exhibit Project

Objective

• Students will create and display an exhibit that demonstrates some aspect of North Carolina’s history, diversity, or an issue connected to present-day NC.
• Completed Project will be due on June 4th
• Exhibits will be open to the “public” (parents, guardians, family members, etc.- please check in front office first) in your child’s room  on Thursday, June 4th  from 10:30-11:30.

Rubric: (To obtain these scores, most of the following criteria are present)

1

• Student has done no or little original work on an exhibit.
• Exhibit has nothing/very little to do with North Carolina’s history, diversity, or present. When displaying exhibit, student was able to provide no/very little explanation about the exhibit.
• No/very minimal amount of written explanation was included as part of the exhibit. Very little/no care was taken to be neat and accurate.
• No references were included.

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2

• Student has done little original work on an exhibit.
• Exhibit has very little to do with North Carolina’s history, diversity, or present.
• When displaying exhibit, student was able to provide very little explanation about the exhibit.
• Minimal amount of written explanation was included as part of the exhibit.
• Minimal care was taken to be neat and accurate.
• References were incomplete/missing.

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3

• Student  has created an original exhibit.
• Exhibit is based on North Carolina’s history, diversity, or present.
• When displaying exhibit, student was able to provide an explanation about the exhibit.
• A thorough written explanation was included as part of the exhibit( would equal about 1 typed page).
• Care was taken to be reasonably neat and accurate.
• References were included.

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4

• Student  has created an original exhibit that demonstrates outstanding creativity and/or  research.
• Exhibit is based on North Carolina’s history, diversity, or present and contains evidence of analytical thinking.
• When displaying exhibit, student was able to provide an explanation about the exhibit.
• A thorough written explanation was included as part of the exhibit( would equal over 1 typed page).
• Great care was taken to be neat and accurate.
• References were included.