Since returning from our Thanksgiving break, we have begun a new math unit titled "Best Buys, Ratios, and Rates," and it allows students to solve real world problems through an inquiry based approach. Students work in partnerships to solve problems based on fictional pet store prices using whichever strategies they choose. Afterwards, students share out and discuss their chosen strategies, allowing classmates to learn new methods from one another. It is safe to say many students are enjoying the different structure of this unit!
Students are working their ways through the second round of our Nonfiction Writing, focusing on new topics, and applying all the skills they have accumulated from our first round of developing, drafting, and revising. We hope to have an Author Celebration when all pieces are published.
In readers' workshop, we have moved on from finding a text's main idea and are working on the skill of summarizing nonfiction texts. These anchor charts are used in class to help students remember what needs to be included in their summary and main idea.
Students are working their ways through the second round of our Nonfiction Writing, focusing on new topics, and applying all the skills they have accumulated from our first round of developing, drafting, and revising. We hope to have an Author Celebration when all pieces are published.
In readers' workshop, we have moved on from finding a text's main idea and are working on the skill of summarizing nonfiction texts. These anchor charts are used in class to help students remember what needs to be included in their summary and main idea.
Our Social Studies unit on European Exploration is coming to a close as students have completed their research and presented to the class important details of the explorer's nationality, sponsoring country, and most famous discoveries. Students have enjoyed using the website Blabberize.com to record and present these projects. Looking ahead, our Social Studies unit will progress onto the Aztec and Inca civilizations.
On Wednesday, December 10th, our class will be visited for our first session of a program titled Fifth Grade Prevention. Older students from the middle schools and high school have gone through training in order to visit classrooms like ours and discuss subjects such as bullying prevention. We will have our second session in March. Later on this month, we will be visiting LHS for their Choral Extravaganza from 9:00-11:00 on Thursday December 18th! As always, if you have any questions, feel free to email me.
Sincerely,
On Wednesday, December 10th, our class will be visited for our first session of a program titled Fifth Grade Prevention. Older students from the middle schools and high school have gone through training in order to visit classrooms like ours and discuss subjects such as bullying prevention. We will have our second session in March. Later on this month, we will be visiting LHS for their Choral Extravaganza from 9:00-11:00 on Thursday December 18th! As always, if you have any questions, feel free to email me.
Sincerely,