Egg drop contest!
Sunday, March 12, 2017
What's up?
Writng: We have been working on an assisted state writing, practice assessment. I am really happy with the outcome. The kind of prompt we practiced with was something entirely new for us, and your children were able to generalize and use the information and tools from throughout the year to write this last paper. This narrative paper will be graded for 4th quarter and will not be represented in 3rd quarter grades. You will however, get to see it during parent conferences! We will continue with a non assisted writing , and continue practicing these types of prompts. I am feeling really good about their writing and I assisted excited for you to see their progress.
Science: Our engineering, egg drop project was super fun and even more successful than I had thought it would be! We are moving on to geology this week!
Reading: We are also finishing up City if Orphans this week and I can tell you that I am a little sad about it. They are so vested in the characters and the story line, and I am enjoying our conversations so much! I hate to see it end. :(
We will resume PE this week. I am confident that our classroom community is strong, and our behavior will remain positive.
As always, I am loving spending my days with your little people. I am still not wanting them to go off to middle school, but they will be ready!!
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Monday, February 13, 2017
Valentine's Day
As per my email from last week, we will be exchanging Valentine's cards with each other tomorrow, but we will not be having a "party." Check my first email regarding Valentine's Day for a list of students in our class.
We will be doing this exchange from 3:20-3:50. Please make sure that if your child chooses to participate, that they bring a Valentine for every child in our class.
Thanks so much!
We will be doing this exchange from 3:20-3:50. Please make sure that if your child chooses to participate, that they bring a Valentine for every child in our class.
Thanks so much!
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
2/7/17
We have been so busy this quarter, and I wanted to take the time to thank you for your quick responses to emails regarding supplies for projects! I find that emailing is a much better way to communicate for certain situations.
We are covering science through our writing as well as during writing block. Currently, we are working on a 7 paragraph piece, that includes all aspects of the ecosystem. We are including the hydrosphere, the geosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere. They are working really hard on these. We also introduced a "thesis statement" that they are all required to include in their writing. They are writing beautiful intro paragraphs!
In science, we are in the middle of a large unit on organisms and ecosystems. Now that we have our terrariums put together, we have moved to spheres and the weather that occurs within each sphere. We have combined our 5th grade classes and will be creating mini models of a chosen natural disaster that occurs in the sphere they were assigned. I am excited about this, I enjoy Jenna's class and she mine, and we are happy to share our students!
In reading, we are in the middle of City of Orphans! I is really starting to get good, and some of the students have figured some things out about the plot! They are totally into this book, and because I love it so much, I couldn't be happier about it!
This is such an enjoyable group of people, I have so much fun with them and look forward to them every morning. Thank you for sharing them with me!
We are covering science through our writing as well as during writing block. Currently, we are working on a 7 paragraph piece, that includes all aspects of the ecosystem. We are including the hydrosphere, the geosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere. They are working really hard on these. We also introduced a "thesis statement" that they are all required to include in their writing. They are writing beautiful intro paragraphs!
In science, we are in the middle of a large unit on organisms and ecosystems. Now that we have our terrariums put together, we have moved to spheres and the weather that occurs within each sphere. We have combined our 5th grade classes and will be creating mini models of a chosen natural disaster that occurs in the sphere they were assigned. I am excited about this, I enjoy Jenna's class and she mine, and we are happy to share our students!
In reading, we are in the middle of City of Orphans! I is really starting to get good, and some of the students have figured some things out about the plot! They are totally into this book, and because I love it so much, I couldn't be happier about it!
This is such an enjoyable group of people, I have so much fun with them and look forward to them every morning. Thank you for sharing them with me!
Thursday, January 12, 2017
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