Week of 12/3-12/7

Week of 12/3

Guest Bloggers: Chloe T and Eesha S

Guest Photographer: Chris P.

Another great week of 5DL! We played Trashketball, had a test, the houses got together to make holiday cards for soldiers and did a huge brain dump in literacy!

Math:

In Math we:

• Played Trashketball to review for Unit 3
• Had our Unit 3 Post-Assessment
• Did a Math Reflection
• Had our Unit 4 Pre-Assessment

Here’s everyone doing an awesome job at Trashketball and being great sports!

Houses:

For our house meetings we:

• Made holiday cards for the soldiers!
• Everyone put their best effort into it!

Science:

• Went to other 5th grade classes
• Learned about Homogenous and Heterogenous mixtures in Mrs. Craig’s class
• We did  experiments in Mrs. Pinsonnault class
• We learned about measurable and observable objects in Mrs. Wentworth’s Class
• We learned about the difference between physical and chemical changes class with Mrs. DeLello and Mrs. Loh. We also did an experiment involving dirty pennies and salt vinegar.

Here we are in Mrs. Pinsonnault class observing water droplets, making diagrams and explaining our thinking!

Literacy

In literacy we:

• Started our Non-Fiction Reading unit a week ago.
• Learned 3 different ways to take notes on Non-Fiction books.
• Did a brain dump about Current Events, World Changers/Improvers and Social/Emotional.
• Split off into partnerships to practice getting good solid questions.
• Everyone had awesome ideas and questions!

Here are all of the sticky notes we brainstormed in our brain dump. Everyone participated and shared their ideas. Great job guys!

Questions to Ask Your Child

• What topics did you decide to ask questions about in Literacy?
• Where are you in math?
• What topic in Literacy from the Brain Dump was your favorite?
• What are you learning in Choose Love?
• What is the C.A.L.M way to work out things?
• How do you like the way you do math?

Important Info/Dates

• Early release 12/13
• Gingerbread house materials due 12/17
• Puberty 12/17-12/18

Choose Love

• In choose Love we learned about gratitude, and gratitude breaths
• Choose love is a social/emotional curriculum that teaches how to have Courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion

Blogging by: Eesha and Chloe 5D and Sam and Josh 5L.

Pictures by: Chris 5D.