We have had a full week this week. For diversity week, the whole school colored butterflies to show diversity. We are all different. We all wore orange today to show our unity. We are all different at WLE but we are also all the same. On Wednesday, we watched the Kid President Pep Talk. Click on the link below to see the video. On Friday, we will work with a first grade class to create a kaleidoscope. Ask your 5th grader about diversity week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o
Kaleidoscope Activity with 1st Grade
In Writers' Workshop we have been working on creating Tall Tales. Tall Tales are stories that are exaggerated but not fantasy. For example, a baby could do something that an adult can do and as the baby gets older his or her powers increase. As we finish each paragraph of our Tall Tale we are editing and publishing with illustrations. Ask your 5th grader about his or her Tall Tale.
In Readers' Workshop we have been using our meta-cognition. We been thinking about our thinking as we are reading. We are working on organizing our thinking on sticky notes or in our Readers' Notebooks. We have also been working on finding our word study word chunks in our reading. This helps us to understand new vocabulary.
In Math, we prepared for and took our second benchmark assessment (BA). This took a long time! We are going to start unit 3 today.
In Social Studies, we worked on our BA Review and played a Jeopardy game to prepare for our BA. We took our first BA in class today. WE LOVE SOCIAL STUDIES!
In Science, we have been working with mixtures and solutions. We have done several experiments with mixtures and solutions.
We had our student council election this week. Our class representatives are Joey and Dior. Congratulations to everyone who participated in the election.
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