2/9/26

The last week of school until February vacation, will see the fifth graders continuing to work on their narrative pieces of writing. When concluded, the kids will work with a partner to transform those narratives into an e-book. The kids worked diligently today on their writing.

As a reminder, on Friday, the fifth graders are welcome to bring in Valentine's Day cards for their classmates.

2/6/26

We spent more time in the ELA portion of the day working on our narrative essays. The fifth graders worked in pairs to compose their proof paragraphs. We ended the lesson by sharing our some of our key plot elements in the whole class. Lots of creativity from the fifth graders.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend. Go Patriots. 

2/5/26

Each of the students worked on drafting the lead paragraph of their narrative essay during our ELA time. There was a discussion about the parts of a strong lead and then the kids worked in pairs to compose the beginning of their essays. We will continue this work tomorrow, as we shift our attention to the proof or body paragraphs.

Homework

Math - word problems worksheet due on Friday 2/6

2/4/26

The fifth graders began to formulate their narrative essays during ELA this morning. Each of the kids used a graphic organizer to begin gathering the elements of their story. Tomorrow, we will look to draft our lead paragraph.

A303 welcomed its newest member during morning meeting. Romeo, the ball python, will be in the classroom for the next few weeks. The students learned about pythons and were able to make some observations about Romeo. There was lots of excitement in the roo

Homework

Math - word problems worksheet due on Friday 2/6

2/3/26

During math class we continued to interpret values of the points on coordinate grids and the shape of a graph. The kids are doing a nice job with these early unit 5 lessons.  

Homework

Math - word problems worksheet due on Friday 2/6

2/2/26

The focus of our ELA work these next two weeks will be on reading and then creating a work of narrative fiction. To prepare us for this, the fifth graders read an example of a narrative text concerning an event in the rainforest. The kids worked in pairs to determine some characteristics of the form and then used an organizer to capture the gist of the story.

Homework

Math - word problems worksheet due on Friday 2/6

1/30/26

We finished a productive writing week during our ELA time this morning. Each of the kids was able to finish the first draft of their literary analysis essay. Next week we will look to refine these pieces before moving into the final portion of our rainforest unit.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.