Bravo 👏

     This week flew by! Opera of Iowa did a fantastic job on Monday and Taco night was a big hit! Opera of Iowa started with a workshop for the 6th graders about the behind the scenes jobs on a set such as lighting, props, makeup, and more! During the workshop two of the students were transformed into Jack and the Giant to show some simple steps to create a specific look. Alexandria became the Giant and Gavin became Jack. After the workshop, the artists went to get read and then put on a wonderful rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk!

Elli and Lucia also received the Iowa City Council Leadership Award and made wonderful speeches. Congratulations!

     Starting this week we will not have spelling or vocabulary work. There will still be weekly math and current events due Friday. We have made our way through our Journey's textbooks which will allow us to have more time for other subject areas. Monday we will be taking our math topic 13 test over finding areas of various shapes, which will then lead us into finding surface area of prisms. We will continue our Kindergarten Book writing projects, as well as our study of Westward Expansion. The entire 6th grade will be starting our second novel study: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan. 

     

     Lastly, a friendly reminder to send back your completed permission slips for School of the Wild at Lake McBride as soon as you can. If you have any questions please let me know. There will be a lot of new things in these last two months of school so stay tuned!