Fairy Tales and Folktales

We launched into our "Folktales and Fairy Tales" unit for both reading and writing. The students began with a discussion in reading about different elements that fairy tales have such as, magic, happy endings, good and bad characters, faraway places, etc. They then compared a variety of fairy tales from around the world to see what was similar and different.Taking what they had learned so far, the students began planning a fairy tale or folktale that they wanted to make a new version of in writing.

Erupting Volcanoes

As part of our science unit, we learned about fast and slow processes that shape the earth. Some slow processes are: wind and water erosion. Examples of fast processes are volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis. We did an experiment to see how our volcanoes would change the environments that we created. 

T-Shirt Days Reminder

We will have some upcoming Summit Street School t-shirt days.  All students have been given a Summit Street School t-shirt at the beginning of the year.  Please wear your Summit Street School shirt on Friday April 12th and Friday April 19th. If you need to purchase another shirt, we have some sizes left for $5 a shirt, payable in cash or check in the main office to the Summit Street PTO.  

Lake Monsters Tickets

Take me out to the ball game. Summit Street PTO is now selling tickets to the Lake Monsters games for the upcoming season. Click on the link and pass along to ANYONE you know!
Buy tickets DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL using the link and a portion of the ticket price comes back to Summit Street School (so buy all your tickets for the season here!!!) You can exchange dates once you purchase tickets so you aren't locked in to the date you purchase.
Summit Street School will officially be recognized at the game on Friday July 26 - but you can switch tickets for any of the games!
Please contact Karen at khergesh@hotmail.com if you have any questions. See you at the ball field and thanks for your support!

https://www.ticketreturn.com/prod2/Buy.asp?EventID=271538&promocode=summit#.XK0ydOtKjBI 

How Wind and Water Can Change The Shape Of The Land

Last week, we began discussing what erosion means. The students started with an experiment that demonstrated how wind can change the shape of the land by blowing onto a sand hill.

Today, the students did an experiment that demonstrated how water can change the shape of the land. The students used a dropper and sprinkled water droplets over their sand mountain. Then they quickly squeezed out water from their dropper onto their mountain. The results were very different. Ask your child about what happened and ask them which trial was supposed to act like rain sprinkles and which trial was supposed to be like a rainstorm.