1/12/18

The students finished the week by taking part two of their reading iReady assessment on chromebooks.

The fifth graders were also able to meet with their book buddies for a Martin Luther King Jr. activity.

I hope everyone has a nice long weekend.


Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night. Fill our reading log on a nightly basis. Due Friday January 12th.

1/11/18

During today's work, the members of A303 took their mid-unit fraction assessment. The work leading up to this point has been quite good. I have seen students make positive strides on a daily basis. The fifth graders appeared to take their time and be diligent about checking over their work when completed. I look forward to going through these results.

Today also saw the fifth graders take the first part of their ELA iReady assessment using Chromebooks. Tomorrow will see the students complete part two

 Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night. Fill our reading log on a nightly basis. Due Friday January 12th.

1/10/18

The fifth graders continued to work deeper into their literary essays today. The students are looking at a particular short story called Spaghetti. Today, the members of A303 used their literary essay templates to begin the process of building an essay concerning this story.

Later in the school day, we spent one last day reviewing for tomorrow's mid-unit fraction assessment.


Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night. Fill our reading log on a nightly basis. Due Friday January 12th.

1/9/18

The students began to look closely at the first anchor text within our clean water current events unit. This book, A River Ran Wild, was written by Lynne Cherry. The students are going to learn about the history of the Nashua River in Massachusetts. Today, time was spent working into small groups to answer some focus questions.


Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night. Fill our reading log on a nightly basis. Due Friday January 12th.

1/8/18

It was nice to see the fifth graders back at school after the weather induced long weekend. The members of A303 continued their work with literary essays during ELA. We finished our exploration of the video concerning the soccer team from the Philippines. We then transitioned into looking at another one of our core literary essays and annotating it.

Later in the school day, many of the students were able to put the finishing touches on their Native American cultural region projects. I have been happy with how these are turning out.

Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night. Fill our reading log on a nightly basis. Due Friday January 12th.

1/3/18

Today was an exciting writing day for the fifth graders. We continued into out next lesson in our study of literary essays. The focus of today's work was a short video about a soccer team in Thailand that had success even though they faced great obstacles. The students keyed in on the main details from this remarkable story and began to sketch a rough outline of a potential literary essay concerning these young soccer players.

During math class, the fifth graders continued to work some word problems that involved both fractions and mixed numbers.


Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night.

1/2/18

As we began our first week of school in the new year, the members of A303 turned their attention to a new unit of study in reading. This time we will be focusing on current events, more specifically clean water and the population's ability to access it. During the course of the next few weeks, the fifth graders will be exposed to a number of different anchor texts and articles that explore the clean water crisis that parts of the world experience. I look forward to wading into this issue with the students.

Time was also spent today returning to the Native American cultural region projects. This work will continue throughout the course of this week.

Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of quiet reading per night.