1/31/23

Hard to believe that the month of January concluded today. We wrapped it up with an interesting writing lesson that saw the kids learning about a group of elephants from the small Africans country of Eswatini. After reading about these creatures, the kids then practiced taking notes pertaining to the main idea of the piece. 

During math class, we worked on a final batch of workbook pages from unit 4. Tomorrow, the kids are going to take the unit four math test.

Homework

Complete "Nature's Little Helpers". Due Friday February 3

1/30/23

We are going to spend time this week having the kids read deeper into their non-fiction books while looking for main ideas and context clues for certain sections. The kids are also going to work on the final two tasks for their opinion writing unit. By Friday, we are going to start gathering information for our opinion pieces.

Homework

Complete "Nature's Little Helpers". Due Friday February 3

1/27/23

We spent time this morning looking at the Ring of Fire homework. Kids were able to share their answers and smaller groups discussed two questions in particular. Productive block of time.

During science class, the fifth graders continued to work on their food web ecosystem posters. These are shaping up nicely. We will look to put the finishing touches on these next week.

Have a nice weekend.

1/26/23

The kids continued their work with data tables during math class. Today's lesson, which was part two of a three part series, will see the kids continue to use different operations to solve problems. These answers will let be used to solve additional problems. Exciting lessons and quality work in the fifth grade. 

Homework

Reading - read Ring of Fire packet and respond to questions. Due in class on Friday 1/27

1/25/23

We once again visited our non-fiction books during ELA time. Prior to that, the kids looked at two speeches and explored the main idea of each. One was the famous "Luckiest Man" speech by Hall of Fame baseball player Lou Gehrig. The other was a more recent speech given by Malala Yousafsai. Nice participation throughout this session.

Homework

Reading - read Ring of Fire packet and respond to questions. Due in class on Friday 1/27

1/24/23

We are into the final section of unit 4 in math. This unit will see the fifth graders working on multi step word problems. Today was an important day to lay foundation for the rest of this week.  

Homework

Reading - read Ring of Fire packet and respond to questions. Due in class on Friday 1/27

1/23/23

The fifth graders began the week by taking an assessment in math class. This test concludes our division review. Starting tomorrow, we are going to move into multi-step word problems using data tables.

During ELA, the class worked on an example of comprehension homework together. This was valuable time and the kids seemed to grasp the time of responses that were needed to fully answer these questions.

Later this week, the fifth graders will look to complete the iReady testing.

Homework

Reading - 30 minutes of reading per night

The kids are going to get a comprehension packet tomorrow. This will be due in class on Thursday 1/26