FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY, JAN. 31.....January Book Project is Due
TUESDAY JAN. 31..... AWIM begins - a project associated with our Forces and Motion unit and JCI
MATH:
Everyone completed the Chapter 7 fraction test. We continue in Chapter 8 fraction operations unit reviewing adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators and adding mixed numbers. We have also learned to subtract mixed numbers including when regrouping is required. We'll continue to practice this skill. Students are drawing representations of math problems as well. We also work on skills on various computer sites.
RTI- students were retested 3 weeks ago and we have regrouped students accordingly. We will focus on those skills individuals show they need for 2 weeks, give a short "test" and regroup as needed.
READING:
We continue to work in small groups on their given novel, working on comprehension and reading skills specific to the group.
WRITING:
Newspaper articles. Most students are finished with their drafts, revising, and editing of their articles. Some students have already typed their article into the template. When all are completed next week we'll post it to my fusion site as a link under "student work". Students have had to learn to write using the tone of a newspaper reporter and not as a fiction writer or TV news reporter which has been a little challenging, but fun!
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been blends such as str, bl, etc.. As always your child can study the weeks spelling list on the Spelling City site - next week's lesson is 17. I sent home this week's list with any student who chose to take it. I will send a list home each week and also put it on my blog.
SCIENCE:
Flight was our topic this week. We discussed how lift, weight, thrust, and drag affect flight. Students designed paper airplanes and tested them in the gym, wrote observations and then made adjustments to their designs to test again.
Spelling List 17
1. there's
2. difference
3. early
4. past
5. children
6. north
7. often
8. always
9. instead
10. until
11. late
12. their
13. learned
14. perhaps
15. famous
16. important
17. history
18. correct
19. language
20. carefully
21. seven
22. pay
23. they're
24. reasons
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
WEEK OF JANUARY 16-JANUARY 20
MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY, JAN. 31.....January Book Project is Due
CONGRATUALTIONS to Karina Stork our 5th Grade Spelling Bee winner and to Tori Folkert our runner-up!
All our spellers did well!
Allyssa Vandenberg, Karina Stork,Tori Folkert, Sydney Ruiter, Sam Sprik, Peyton Remick
Alex Murphy, Will Jordan, Hannah Wettlauffer, Bradley Osborne, Georgia Timm, and Alaina Copeland
MATH:
We continue in Chapter 8 fraction operations unit reviewing adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. We added in adding mixed numbers. Students completed the Ch. 7 study guide and those who have not taken the test yet will do this on Monday. We will practice subtracting mixed numbers, continue to work work on problem solving skills, and have a quiz over previously covered concepts.
READING:
We are working in guided reading groups reading the novels Tuck Everlasting, Gilly Hopkins, Stone Fox, and Bridge to Terabithia. Students are working with me and together as small groups discussing components of their novels, reading aloud, working on vocabulary in context and character, and story elements.
WRITING:
We read a few more newspaper articles this week to look at the difference between writing a story and a story for a newspaper. We broke down the articles into the who, what, when, where, and why and how. We discussed what questions reporters may have asked to get the responses we were reading. Students are working on their questions and pre-writing. Some students are choosing to interview others and write true news and some students are writing fictional articles that are meant to sound like true news.
We also practiced a little with the newspaper template.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been consonant diagraphs- ch, sh, ph, wh, th.
SCIENCE:
This week's focus was again on simple machines. We experimented with ramps to see how they make work easier. We discussed and worked with wheels and axles. The students enjoyed watching a Bill Nye video that gave us a recap on simple machines. Flight is next- Time to make and fly paper airplanes!
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY, JAN. 31.....January Book Project is Due
CONGRATUALTIONS to Karina Stork our 5th Grade Spelling Bee winner and to Tori Folkert our runner-up!
All our spellers did well!
Allyssa Vandenberg, Karina Stork,Tori Folkert, Sydney Ruiter, Sam Sprik, Peyton Remick
Alex Murphy, Will Jordan, Hannah Wettlauffer, Bradley Osborne, Georgia Timm, and Alaina Copeland
MATH:
We continue in Chapter 8 fraction operations unit reviewing adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. We added in adding mixed numbers. Students completed the Ch. 7 study guide and those who have not taken the test yet will do this on Monday. We will practice subtracting mixed numbers, continue to work work on problem solving skills, and have a quiz over previously covered concepts.
READING:
We are working in guided reading groups reading the novels Tuck Everlasting, Gilly Hopkins, Stone Fox, and Bridge to Terabithia. Students are working with me and together as small groups discussing components of their novels, reading aloud, working on vocabulary in context and character, and story elements.
WRITING:
We read a few more newspaper articles this week to look at the difference between writing a story and a story for a newspaper. We broke down the articles into the who, what, when, where, and why and how. We discussed what questions reporters may have asked to get the responses we were reading. Students are working on their questions and pre-writing. Some students are choosing to interview others and write true news and some students are writing fictional articles that are meant to sound like true news.
We also practiced a little with the newspaper template.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been consonant diagraphs- ch, sh, ph, wh, th.
SCIENCE:
This week's focus was again on simple machines. We experimented with ramps to see how they make work easier. We discussed and worked with wheels and axles. The students enjoyed watching a Bill Nye video that gave us a recap on simple machines. Flight is next- Time to make and fly paper airplanes!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Week of January 9th-January 13th
Upcoming Dates:
FRIDAY, JAN. 13 ........PTO BINGO NIGHT 7:00-8:30 in the MS East Gym
FRIDAY JAN. 13..........RELEASE TIME
MONDAY JAN 16:......MARSHALL MUSIC comes to visit 5th grade
TUESDAY JAN 17.......5th GRADE SPELLING BEE in Hamilton El cafeteria
FRIDAY, JAN. 20 ....... PTO POPCORN
MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
The Spelling Bee is at 2:15 in the cafeteria Tuesday, January 17th.
Our school psychologist has been coming in each week for the past four weeks to give 20 minute lessons focusing on positive behaviors, behavior choices and appropriate peer interactions. She will continue to come in over the next few weeks. These discussions have been good talking points as a class as well as when students have issues arise during the week.
MATH:
We have been reviewing concepts in our fractions unit. We began working in the Chapter 8 fraction operations unit learning about the Least Common Multiple, adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. We have practiced these concepts by working problems on paper and looking at what the concepts look like in pictures using drawings and computer games and lessons.
We will do the Ch. 7 study guide Monday and take the test Wednesday over Chapter 7.
READING:
We worked in nonfiction guided reading groups this week. We practiced determining importance, main idea/detail, vocabulary meanings in context, and text features. Students will begin book clubs, reading chapter books next week.
WRITING:
Our next project is writing newspaper articles for a class newspaper we will post on my fusion page.
Skills we worked on this week in order to prepare for this piece:
Alliteration and using it in headlines, Quotation marks in dialogue and writing dialogue in the correct format, fact versus opinion, and parts of a news story. We read and discussed example news stories and searched articles for the skills we learned and how they were applied in the article. Students are choosing topics and will begin writing next week.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been the 'ou/ow' sound in "house", 'ow' in "snow", and the "toughies" that don't fit in this category such as your, bought, and though.
SCIENCE:
We worked on the study guide for a quiz for lessons 5-9. We have discussed this as a class and students have been spending time in class studying for Friday's quiz. We also began our lessons on simple machines focusing on levers. We watched a couple video clips of Rube Goldberg set-ups as they feature various types of simple machines and are fun to watch!
Have a wonderful weekend enjoying the snow!
FRIDAY, JAN. 13 ........PTO BINGO NIGHT 7:00-8:30 in the MS East Gym
FRIDAY JAN. 13..........RELEASE TIME
MONDAY JAN 16:......MARSHALL MUSIC comes to visit 5th grade
TUESDAY JAN 17.......5th GRADE SPELLING BEE in Hamilton El cafeteria
FRIDAY, JAN. 20 ....... PTO POPCORN
MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
The Spelling Bee is at 2:15 in the cafeteria Tuesday, January 17th.
Our school psychologist has been coming in each week for the past four weeks to give 20 minute lessons focusing on positive behaviors, behavior choices and appropriate peer interactions. She will continue to come in over the next few weeks. These discussions have been good talking points as a class as well as when students have issues arise during the week.
MATH:
We have been reviewing concepts in our fractions unit. We began working in the Chapter 8 fraction operations unit learning about the Least Common Multiple, adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. We have practiced these concepts by working problems on paper and looking at what the concepts look like in pictures using drawings and computer games and lessons.
We will do the Ch. 7 study guide Monday and take the test Wednesday over Chapter 7.
READING:
We worked in nonfiction guided reading groups this week. We practiced determining importance, main idea/detail, vocabulary meanings in context, and text features. Students will begin book clubs, reading chapter books next week.
WRITING:
Our next project is writing newspaper articles for a class newspaper we will post on my fusion page.
Skills we worked on this week in order to prepare for this piece:
Alliteration and using it in headlines, Quotation marks in dialogue and writing dialogue in the correct format, fact versus opinion, and parts of a news story. We read and discussed example news stories and searched articles for the skills we learned and how they were applied in the article. Students are choosing topics and will begin writing next week.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been the 'ou/ow' sound in "house", 'ow' in "snow", and the "toughies" that don't fit in this category such as your, bought, and though.
SCIENCE:
We worked on the study guide for a quiz for lessons 5-9. We have discussed this as a class and students have been spending time in class studying for Friday's quiz. We also began our lessons on simple machines focusing on levers. We watched a couple video clips of Rube Goldberg set-ups as they feature various types of simple machines and are fun to watch!
Have a wonderful weekend enjoying the snow!
Friday, January 6, 2012
WEEK OF DECEMBER 3rd- DECEMBER 6TH
WELCOME BACK! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday.
Upcoming Dates:
FRIDAY, JAN. 13 ........PTO BINGO NIGHT 7:00-8:30 in the MS East Gym
FRIDAY JAN. 13..........RELEASE TIME
TUESDAY JAN 17.......5th GRADE SPELLING BEE in Hamilton El cafeteria
FRIDAY, JAN. 20 ....... PTO POPCORN
MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
MATH:
We have been reviewing concepts in our fractions unit, particularly simplifying fractions, changing fractions to decimals and vice versa, and placing them on number lines. We will take the unit test over fractions once we are into unit 8 "Fraction Operations". We find students perform better after working in the next unit as they practice many of the same skills within the new concepts. Students have also done some work reviewing rounding, long division, and multiplication.
READING:
We worked with nonfiction texts this week. We read "Deadly Hits" from the Storyworks magazine and worked on author's purpose, differentiating between our opinions and what the author is saying, comprehension skills, and vocabulary. Students took the SRI test on Friday.
WRITING:
Our focus this week has been sentence fluency. Students received a page with examples of various sentence types. We discussed and gave numerous examples. Their assignment is to choose 1 of 2 prompts and write a short story including at least 5 of the 10 sentence types we have practiced.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been homophones.
SCIENCE:
We are discussing the difference between mass and weight and applying it to Newton's second law of motion: An object's acceleration (speed or direction) depends on the mass and size of the force acting on it." We discuss repeatedly what this means in kid-friendly language. Experiments have centered on comparing the speed and distance of 3 balls of different masses and weights.
Upcoming Dates:
FRIDAY, JAN. 13 ........PTO BINGO NIGHT 7:00-8:30 in the MS East Gym
FRIDAY JAN. 13..........RELEASE TIME
TUESDAY JAN 17.......5th GRADE SPELLING BEE in Hamilton El cafeteria
FRIDAY, JAN. 20 ....... PTO POPCORN
MONDAY, JAN. 23..... PTO MEETING – 7PM
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 ........NO SCHOOL
MATH:
We have been reviewing concepts in our fractions unit, particularly simplifying fractions, changing fractions to decimals and vice versa, and placing them on number lines. We will take the unit test over fractions once we are into unit 8 "Fraction Operations". We find students perform better after working in the next unit as they practice many of the same skills within the new concepts. Students have also done some work reviewing rounding, long division, and multiplication.
READING:
We worked with nonfiction texts this week. We read "Deadly Hits" from the Storyworks magazine and worked on author's purpose, differentiating between our opinions and what the author is saying, comprehension skills, and vocabulary. Students took the SRI test on Friday.
WRITING:
Our focus this week has been sentence fluency. Students received a page with examples of various sentence types. We discussed and gave numerous examples. Their assignment is to choose 1 of 2 prompts and write a short story including at least 5 of the 10 sentence types we have practiced.
SPELLING:
Our skill this week has been homophones.
SCIENCE:
We are discussing the difference between mass and weight and applying it to Newton's second law of motion: An object's acceleration (speed or direction) depends on the mass and size of the force acting on it." We discuss repeatedly what this means in kid-friendly language. Experiments have centered on comparing the speed and distance of 3 balls of different masses and weights.
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