Week Of November 16th

Hello 5D Families!

Here is a glance at our week.

• We finished our final narratives and completed beautiful Animotos to share with students in 5D and 5H.  I'll embed them in the blog next week.
• We continued (and some wrapped up) book clubs.  
• We started unit 3 in math... FRACTIONS!
• We continued our colonization unit in Social Studies
• We started a STEM/engineering project in Science.
• 5H and 5D met for "Social Hour" where we talk about social challenges and how to deal with them.

Below comes from our latest "Social Hour".  The paper represents your heart.  We talked to all students about how you feel when something negative or mean is said (as we crumpled the paper). We then had students share positive/kind words.  Although our paper did get back to paper form, it will forever have wrinkles.  Words stay with us so be careful with the ones you choose to use.

5D and 5H brainstormed what makes a REAL FRIEND.

We got together with 5H and played 6 different math games having to do with fractions, volume, and multiplication.  The students did an amazing job.

Fringo Factory- changing fractions greater than one to mixed numbers

Prism Pile Up- Volume

Tic Tac Frac- Simplifying Fractions

Tic Tac Frac

Fringo Factory

Factor Football

Love these students!  Check out the pictures below.

I shopped at IKEA to get some stools for the classroom.  I brought in seven stools still in the package along with some tools from home.  The class got right to work building each stool (without even being asked)!!!  I saw a ton of teamwork and all stools are now a part of the classroom.  So thankful for the genuine and hard working students of 5D.

I hope you all have a relaxing, enjoyable weekend with your families!  

Until Monday....

Shannon