We had a really busy Friday!  We started with a wonderful mass led by Father John and continued onto math.  After some review with fractions, we worked our way into adding three mixed numbers using the associative and commutative property (the order of the addends doesn't matter).  I created an optional math practice page for the weekend of converting to and from mixed numbers.  The kids were able to chose if they wanted to complete the practice over the weekend.

The kids planned out their barrier systems yesterday in their science groups, and today they built and tested them.  This was really fun and they loved seeing who was successful in guiding the boulders into the catch.  Next week the groups will create an entire system- catch and barriers on a budget!

After lunch we spent our afternoon on language arts.  The kids took their spelling test and then we read from our novel.  We read through chapter 7.  Our main character has just fallen asleep in New York but awoken from a nap in Italy!  We spent the rest of our time editing and typing stories about a treasure map.  We will finish the final copies on Tuesday!

Remember there's no school on Monday! Enjoy your long weekend!