During The Great Kindness Challenge, students have been challenged to perform as many kind deeds as they can in one week. They were given a checklist of possible acts to perform from February 9th through February 13th. For each act of kindness completed, we are adding a link to our Kindness Chain. Our hope is to create a school-wide chain in the coming weeks. Remember to reach out and be kind!
We completed a math assessment for Units 9 through 12.
MCAS is finished for the year! We finished fitness testing in PE. The camping trip is coming up soon! We finished a Social Studies test on the American Revolution. Social Studies PowerPoints were presented by all 5th graders, sharing what we learned about Revolutionary War leaders. The Music in Our Lives concert is coming up next Thursday. We finished all of our units in Science! In Reading, we are learning about the body systems and we are writing an essay about the system we're studying. In Art, we started our clay projects. We are starting to publish our memoirs. We just had ACES Day! In homeroom Reading, we are participating in Literature Circles. We got our riser spots in chorus. Thank you to Mrs. Lipinski, m
Big Sites, Lots of Options: Freudenthal Institute- http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/publicaties/subsets/rekenweb_en/ Games Greg Tang- http://gregtangmath.com/Games Illuminations (NCTM)- http://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search& Fact Practice- Starts with addition facts, Continues to multiplication: How Many Under the Shell- http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3566 Speedy Pictures- http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/toepassingen/03373/ Alien Addition-http://www.arcademics.com/games/alien/alien.html Meteor Multiplication- http://www.arcademics.com/games/meteor/meteor.html Number Sense: Computation Challenge- http://fen.com/studentactivities/gofigure/gofigure.html Make Five in a Row / Tic Tac Toe- http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/toepassingen/03366/ Patterns on the Hundred Grid- http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html Find Numbers on a 100 Grid- http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/dogbone/gamebone.html Puzzle Games: Kakooma from Greg Tang- http://gregtangmath.com/Kakooma Ken Ken- Choose your level- http://www.kenken.com/# Sudoku- http://www.websudoku.com/ Daily SET Puzzle- http://www.setgame.com/set/daily_puzzle We finished our wind instruments for science, and then tested them outside today.
Last week we started meeting as Literature Circle groups. We have met twice so far. On Monday, we are going to the Commonwealth Museum in Boston. We are starting to get really deep into our Memoir writing. We had an MI Monday this week. Today was the Kindergarten concert where they took us on a trip to the moon! For math, we are learning about area and perimeter of rectangles. In Social Studies, we are learning about the Revolutionary War. The Talent Show is tonight! Good Afternoon 5C Families,
I want to remind you that on Monday, we are going on a field trip to the Commonwealth Museum in Boston. The bus will be leaving at 9:00, so please help your child arrive on time, as always. Everyone will need a paper bag lunch, as we will eat at the museum. Thank you for your support, and have a wonderful weekend! Today was MI Friday. Some people made fleece pillows, some made items out of duct tape, and some learned Spanish.
We started a new unit about hockey in PE. In writing, we're working on memoirs. We have to reflect when writing a memoir. We are learning about the American Revolution and how it started in Social Studies. In Reading, we're starting Literature Circles. We learned how to get into book groups and have a discussion about what we've read. We finished ELA MCAS on Monday! In Science, we are making projects that can measure wind speed and/or wind direction. HAWKS Council is launching a new community service program, called Operation ZS. It is a collection of school supplies to help students in Zambia have a better education. We presented our Rube Goldberg compound machine projects in Science. We then started a new Weather Unit.
In Math, we are working on several different units: coordinate grids, exponents, using parentheses, and order of operations. In PE, we started a Heart Unit, learning about our health. We are gathering seed story ideas for writing memoirs. In Library, we are writing book recommendations for Just Right books of our choice. We also voted for our favorite MCBA books. We are finishing our Reading unit on responding to texts. A specialist came to our class to give us strategies that help us focus before beginning our work. In Reading, we are starting a Poetry Unit. We will be reading poetry and writing our own poems. To finish our Slavery Unit in Social Studies, we had a short written assessment on what we have learned about slavery in colonial North America. In Art, we are working on complimentary colors with wed media. |
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