Taylor+H. 

 We did a project at the end of the year called Math Connections. We chose four math concepts and explained what they are and how to do the math concept. It's fun because you got to relate the math concepts to anything you want. For example, sports, hobbies, music etc..... We did a lot of work on study island. We learned order of operations (PEMDAS), area of a circle, area of a parallelogram, area of a trapezoid, and how to find the circumference of a circle.
 * __Math__ **

 We learned about the voyage of the Mimi. We made booklets and wrote main sentences about what happened in certain sections of the videos. We studied places in the world like China, Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. When we studied China we made projects with groups and made presentations that had to do with Chinese New Year. A guy also came in and showed us some items that he got from China on trips. We made fake fireworks and did them at the end of the day. We also had a feast with chinese food. When we studied Egypt, we learned how to make mummies and we made our own mummies. We also had a burial ceremony and had a party afterwards. It was fun to dress up and make the mummies. With Greece, we got into groups and researched a famous greek person and wrote about the person.
 * __Social Studies__ **

 We did some lit circles with A Christmas Carol and we got to choose our other books that we did in the lit circles. We did a short story book project where we had to choose a short story and write three paragraphs that contained what the book was, the plot, and if you liked it. We wrote a lot of persuasive essays. We learned how to use the programs on the mac laptops so that we could make project. We had D.A.R.E. and we wrote essays on what we learned in D.A.R.E.
 * __Reading/English__ **

**__Science__ We learned about birds of prey. We learned how to tell what type of bird they are by their color and by the way they fly. We learned about the states of matter. We did a project with water displacement, volume and mass with a piece of gum.

__Specials__ We have music class for one quarter, computers for two quarters, art for one quarter, gym for two quarters, tech-ed for two quarters, and FACS for one quarter. In music we did a report on a certain instrument. We also learned about the families of instruments. In computers we learned where all the keys are and we did worksheets that we had to type. We learned where our hands should be on the computer keys. In art we make gargoyles and we drew trees with pastels. We also drew buildings and worked on a project for the art show. In gym we ran the mile and we played games like prisoner dodgeball. We also learned how to play volleyball. In tech-ed we went through different modules. In FACS we learned the different types of food groups and we did a project where we had to make a menu with five entrees that included one item from each food group. We also cooked bagel pizzas and scrambled eggs.

 **Outdoor Program