2/28/23

The month of February ended with the fifth graders taking a unit five assessment in math class. This assessment offers a glimpse into the kid's understanding of ordered pair graphing and organizing data into tables. I look forward to going over the results.

Homework

Reading - read and complete The Goop Monster, due Friday March 3.

2/27/23

After we checked to make sure our three fish survived the vacation week, which they did, we began our first week back from the winter break. It was nice to hear the kids get to share their favorite moments from vacation week during our morning meeting. This share out topic will continue throughout the week.

This week is going to be a big writing week for us. Conferences are ongoing and peer editing and sharing will also be going on in the classroom.

Homework

Reading - read and complete The Goop Monster, due Friday March 3.

2/17/23

I hope everyone has a nice vacation week. Look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday the 27th.

2/16/23

Students continued to explore their non-fiction books during ELA. We are highlighting various text features of these books and the kids are still in the process of gathering information to correspond to various features (compare and contrast, sequence and order, description, etc.). Some students have started work on a magazine project using Book Creator on their Chromebooks. In the early stages, these are shaping up nicely. We will continue work on this project after the vacation.

I also wanted to welcome our new students, Potato. The kids made him feel right at home.

2/15/23

A productive writing day saw many of the students turn their attention to their concluding paragraphs. We were focused on leaving the reader with a final thought. Some of the fifth graders were able to included wonderful quotes from influential writers or biologists to further their point of view.

Tomorrow, the kids are going to meet with their book buddies.

Homework

Math - some students need to finish workbook pages 313 and 314

2/14/23

The fifth graders learned who they were working with for their colonial region project. Using graphic organizers, the kids started gathering information concerning their region, using a short video and article. this work will be ongoing over the next three weeks.

We spent time later in the day celebrating Valentine's Day. Many of the kids brought in cards so we were able to exchange those. It was a nice way to conclude the day.

2/13/23

This final week before vacation will see the kids working with computer simulations of changing ecosystems during science class, working with groups on colonial region posters and continuing to work on their opinion writing during ELA time. 

There will be no homework written homework this week, but there will be math homework either tomorrow or Wednesday.