All of the kids have successfully completed a piece of narrative writing. A lot of time and effort went into this writing over the last few days. I look forward to reading these pieces.
Tomorrow in science class, the kids are going to work in small groups to create a food web using animal cards.
In math class today, the fifth graders worked to interpret the shape of graphs and to generate ordered pairs that corresponded to the data on a table. The kids worked incredibly hard and remained on task during this important lesson. Later this week, the members of A303 will take a short assessment to gauge their progress.
The last week before the vacation will see the fifth graders put the finishing touches on their Boston Tea Party projects during social studies. We will also be looking at food chains and food webs in science class. Lastly, the members of A303 will look to make some headway in unit five in math class. It will be a busy week and hopefully a productive one.
Also, on Friday the 14th, the kids are once again welcome to bring in a board or card game. They will have some time to play with peers later in the school day.
There is no homework this week.
We returned to school to wrap up the week after yesterday's snow day. The fifth graders continued their work with their narrative essays this morning in ELA. Each of the students turned their attention to the proof paragraphs. We are looking to add figurative and concrete language to these sections. Many of the kids were able to get a fair amount of work complete.
I hope everyone has a nice weekend and that the fifth graders help out with any shoveling that needs to be done this weekend.
We only have a few more days in unit four in our math class. We continued to work on word problems concerning larger numbers. Special attention is being paid to slowing down and checking our work. The fifth graders are looking to avoid some of the smaller errors.
Homework
Math - double sided word problem sheet. Due in class on Friday 2/7The kids used a graphic organizer to analyze the narrative story that we read in class yesterday. The second portion of ELA was spent having the kids generate a narrative writing idea of their own. We will continue this work tomorrow.
Homework
Math - double sided word problem sheet. Due in class on Friday 2/7This week we are going to move into the last portion of our rainforest unit in ELA. The kids did a nice job of writing their essays last week and we want to carry that momentum into this final leg. We explored how a writer's point of view influences the story being told.
We are also nearing a transition point in math class. These next few lessons will see the fifth graders working through the final lessons in unit 4.
Homework
Math - double sided word problem sheet. Due in class on Friday 2/7
