Blog written by the students in room 14.
Reader's Workshop
This week in reading we have been looking at different character perspectives. We decided as a class to abandon Across Five Aprils. We were having a hard time following this book. Many kids could not understand what was happening in the book. We are looking forward to starting our new book The Honest Truth tomorrow. We continued to read The Phantom Tollbooth with Mrs. Athan. Right now are are at the part where the kingdom of Digitopoles was introduced. This is another kingdom in the book.
Writer's Workshop
In writing we have been writing persuasive writing pieces. We have been boosting our persuasive writing. Today we spent time studying ways to hook our reader in our introduction. We then tried new introductions to see which ones we liked best.
Math
In math this week we have been doing a lot with coordinate grids. We also learned how to add and subtract with decimals. We have played many math games to help our understanding. We played Decimal Top-It and many more. Next week we are going to have our next BA.
Social Studies
In Social Studies we are learning about all of the acts that led to the American Revolution. We learned PSQSTBCTBIFB. This stands for "Please send Queen Stupid to bed cause, Tim baked insects for breakfast." Today we learned about the Townshend Act and tomorrow we are excited to learn about The Boston Massacre.
Science
In Science we have been working on creating pendulums. We also have been working on changing just one variable. We watched a video that includes independent variables and dependent variable. Independent variables means what I can change. Dependent variables means what I observe and controlled variables means what I keep the same.
Reminders:
- 5th Grade Camp is March 2nd-4th. Camp packets were given out at the camp meeting or sent home today in your child's folder.
- Please return your child's instrument form by Friday, February 5th.
- January 26th: Little Caesars pizza orders due
- February 15th - 19th: NO SCHOOL Mid Winter Break
Blog written by the students in room 14.
We completed our second round of iReady testing this week.
Reader's Workshop
In Reader's Workshop this week we have been looking for claims, reasons, and evidence in our reading. We have been noticing how authors make a claim and support their claim with evidence.
Writer's Workshop
We have been working on our persuasive writing this week. We have been focusing our research on chocolate milk. We have been collecting evidence to determine if chocolate milk is healthy or not. Ask your 5th grader what his or her claim is on chocolate milk.
Math
In math this week we have been working with the coordinate grid system. We have been plotting points on a graph and providing coordinates as well.
Social Studies
In Social Studies this week we started our unit on "The Road to the Revolution." We learned a new mnemonic to help us remember the order of events that lead to the revolution. Ask your 5th grader if he or she can recite the mnemonic.
Reminders
- No School Monday: January 18th MLK Day - please join us for a celebration at Northern High School
- 5th Grade Camp and Graduation meeting: Tuesday, January 19th at 6:00 p.m.
- Count Day: Thursday, January 21st
Blog written by the students in room 14.
Read Aloud
Mrs. Faley started a new read aloud book today. The book is called Across Five Aprils. It is an historical fiction book that takes place in the 1800s. We are still reading The Phantom Toolbooth with Mrs. Athan.
Reader's Workshop
In reader's workshop we are been reading persuasive articles about rats. We have been analyzing the claims, reasons, and evidence in each article.
Writer's Workshop
In writer's workshop, we have been working on making claims and providing evidence and reasons to support our claims. This type of writing is called persuasive writing. WE have been reading articles and watching videos about people's thinking on rats.
Math
In math we are learning about decimals. We learned how to write decimals in three different expanded forms. Also, we are using place value grids to help us determine the values of numbers. Our grids include tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.
Social Studies
This week in social studies we finished our BA. We talked about the people of the colonies. The colonies are New England, Middle and Southern.
Science
In science we have been working on the unit variables. WE have been working with table partner on making a toothpick and clay tower to reach over our height goal. We also worked with our table partner to try to get our ball bearing to go a certain distance. We could only use a paper cup, a ruler, and a role of tape. Only about four groups got up to the goal.
FAPEs
In Art we finished our school year book covers and decided to start clay homes with a theme of our choice.
In PE Mr. Cox came back from his knee surgery. We also have a student teacher in PE. His name is Mr. Wozny and he is helping us prepare for our 14 minute jog test.
In music we have been going over our notes and playing music bingo to help us. Also, people get to play songs on the piano at the end.
In Media we have been working on our typing with Typing Master. We also did Hour of Code.
Important Dates
- January 18th - NO SCHOOL MLK Day (Please join us for the MLK celebration at Northern High School)
- January 19th - Field Trip to Western High School
- January 19th - Camp/Graduation meeting at 6 pm
- January 26th - Little Caesars pizza orders due
- February 15th - 19th - NO SCHOOL Mid Winter Break
