Thank you to the wonderful Mr. Power for starting our Migration Unit this week by exploring Google Earth with the students.

If you do not have Google Earth on your computer it is a fast and free download. I encourage you to watch this with your children and ask them about what they have  been discussing in class. I think a great idea once you have Google Earth up on your screen is to go to Tools, Options, Touring, and adjust the ‘tool pause’ bar to about 20-30 seconds. That way you should have enough time to read what the children have written as you fly around the world seeing where they are from.

http://portal.saschina.org/eportfolios/spower/files/-1/1485/5kp+final.kmz

Math Test this week, Wednesday at this stage…

Unit 11

Skills covered on the unit eleven test include:

*understand the relationship between the volume of pyramids and prisms and the volume of cones and cylinders

*find the surface area of prisms

*understand how to find the surface area of cylinders

*understand the concept of and calculate capacity

*use formulas to find the volume of prisms and cylinders

*use formulas to find the area of polygons and circles

*know the properties of geometric solids