Teton & Olympic Team: Week of April 1

Wow! It's hard to believe that April vacation begins on Friday, April 12. It has been wonderful to have more light and sunshine.

**** SAVE THE DATE***** APRIL 25th****** Greg Tang Jr. Presents a Math night @HMS****
Thanks to the generosity of a grant from the Yarmouth Educational Foundation, we are pleased to present a math night for students and their families. Greg Tang Jr., who is responsible for our weekly math work, is coming to HMS to work with teachers and students during the day and to present a math night for families. We are very excited. Stay tuned for more details.

Great Americans -

In language arts this week the students researched 'cool' facts about a few great Americans from their homeroom's time period. We used Digital Maine Library which is found on our library page. The resources that we access for this project are: Kids Info bits, Research in Context, and World Book Student. The Tetons have great Americans born between 1697-1744. A few names from that time period are: Nathan Hale, Eli Whitney, John Hancock, and Abigail Adams. The Acadian's time period are the great Americans born between 1797-1832. A few of the great American from their list are: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Clara Barton. We put our note taking skills to good use and we had fun sharing the facts with each other.

In reading we are busy filling in our poetry reading charts and creating a 'Color My World' poem of our own. It has been fun to read from a variety of authors. The nature myths that we have enjoyed this week include Phaethon and Narcissus and Echo. There are still traces of Phaethon's ride - the ends of the earth are still covered in icecaps and mountains still rumble trying to spit out the fire started in their bellies by the diving sun. You can still find the narcissus flower that lives on the river bank. If you call to Echo in a certain way, she will answer you. We also read about Hephaestus and Hermes.

We started atlas activities this week. We learned about legends, scales, geographical terms and latitude & longitude. Latitude and longitude are always a bit confusing for kids. This work is laying the foundation for their map project which is due on April 25. The assignment is below, students have a hard copy, and there is an electronic copy in their Google Classroom account. This project should be done in final form. Our next unit is colonization. We begin by learning about the lost colony of Roanoke, Virginia. These colonists did not fare well.

In math we are learning about coordinate graphs. We have learned all about the x-axis, y-axis, coordinates, the origin, and how to graph points. Our next step will be to graph data and use the graph to answer questions. This is always fun!