3.6: March 3-7

Friday's Garden Work Party-

Thank you for all the hard work students and parents, 10 fifth grade students showed up! Let's go for 15 next time.

Take a walk through our native bird garden to see the progress. 

Plant donations wanted for Winterhaven's gardens, need is ongoing.

• Food Forest: for edible hedgerows

suggestions:

blueberries, lingonberries, huckleberries, salal-berry, kinnikinnik, elderberry, gooseberry, honey-berry, currant-berry, mulberry

• Native Plant, Bug, and Bird Garden: to attract birds and the bugs that feed them

suggestions:

sword ferns, thimbleberry, vine maple, huckleberry, indian plum, flowering currant, trillium, fringe cup, salmonberry, thimbleberry, salal,

We will plant the donated perennials on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout the year. The need is ongoing.

Writing

2039 Narratives

• Practice reading aloud your 2039 narratives to an audience at home, make revisions as necessary. We will begin reading our imaginative narratives on Monday, March 3 and you should be well prepared and well practiced. Have fun and use our class time to improve your stories.

Presented by Winterhaven Fifth Graders, May 22, Time TBA.

• Begin working on your pechakucha- (20 slides twenty seconds per slide), this is the final phase of your positive change project and will be presented in May. Slides should contain little or no text, text belongs in the notes section. 

Math

Home Connection 51: The Smaller the Better Fraction Game

Assigned Tuesday, Due Wednesday, March 5

Home Connection 52: Cafeteria Problems

Assigned Wednesday, Due Thursday, March 6

にほんご（日本語）
Dialogs 1-4: see Japanese pages 1-4 below or pink handout, practice for both a-san and b-san.
• Kaiwa
一：すみせん、えいごがわかりますか。
二：すみません、にほんごがわかりますか。
三：おはようございます。
四：すみません、あなたは、にほんじんですか。
• Kanji 41-50 人 水 正  生 青 夕 石 赤 千  川

Quiz answer key

Hiragana	Kanji	English
みず	水	water
せん	千	thousand
い（きる）	生	live
あか	赤	red
ひと	人	person
いし	石	rock
あお	青	blue
かわ	川	river
ただ（しい）	正	correct
ゆう	夕	evening