Week of January 7-11

5DL Blog for the week of January 7-11

Happy 2019!  In honor of the new year, 5DL was visited by Captain Thunder Pants and Major Sassy Pants!  These kiddos are in tip top shape!

*World Changers:

• Introduced Padlet
• Created one umbrella question for their world changer topic
• Did a brain dump of as many questions as possible about their topic
• Chose the strongest 5 questions to be subtopics
• Used Padlet to begin collecting articles and research to support questions
• Worked on chunking texts, reading, and jotting notes

*Math:

• We continue our division unit
• Self paced with whole number division, decimals in dividend, decimals in the divisor
• In a little over a week, we will assess for understanding
• 7 students presented to School Board about our Self-Paced Math Menu
• They were AMAZING!!!
• Took mid year i-Ready assessment to show growth

*Science:

• We are finishing up out unit on matter
• Students created a study guide after we brainstormed the concepts of the unit
• Students were assessed for understanding

*Choose Love:

• We are in our third unit of Choose Love
• Forgiveness is the focus
• Students will learn how to forgive themselves and/or others
• Forgiveness helps us all release anger/embarrassment

*Peppa Pig Party:

• 5DL created a Peppa Pig themed farewell party for Cash, as he is moving
• Masks, table decor, a door sign, banner and more were hand created by each student
• Cash was also presented with a book, signed with a letter from each student

Important Info:

• Learned the Zen Den
• Learned about different types of lowdown/evacuation drills
• Took the SEL Survey
• Geography Bee is happening in class Monday
• Students were given a study guide for Geo Bee
• Spelling Bee study guides are available too!