Week of 1/14-1/18

5DL Blog for the week of January 14-18

According to 5DL, boot camp sargents are more fun than this tumbleweed!

*Math:

• Finished up our division of decimals unit
• Interpreted the remainder in problem solving
• Divided with decimals in the divisor
• Played trashketball
• Assessment coming up next Wednesday

*Literacy/World Changers

• Researched World Changer topics on Padlet
• Flashdrafted from the research
• Worked to write leads that are gripping
• Worked to understand text structures in groups

*Social Studies:

• Began our next unit: Colonization
• Learned about the 13 original colonies and where they are located
• Discussed push/pull factors for colonization
• Learned about differences between New England, Middle and Southern colonies
• Students were randomly sorted into families
• They will embark on a colonization simulation to experience what it was like to be a colonist
• Families have been earning green slips for positive behavior, transitions and answering tumbleweed trivia!

*Choose Love:

• Talked about the benefits of forgiveness
• Learned about being intentional in what we do
• Practiced a forgiveness breath
• Discussed how to forgive, even when we are really angry or upset
• Looked at the different clues and signs that people show when they are upset
• Learned about what happens to the brain when we are angry and how to help alleviate that stress

Important Info:

• Geography Bee Semi Finals: Thursday 1:30 in the cafe (congrats Alp and Patrick for advancing!)
• Stembassadors: Friday, January 25th
• Completed a Zen Den tour
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Enjoy the weekend of weather!  

-Shannon

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!

Week of 12/17-12/21

Happy Holidays!

Bloggers: Chloe and Eesha

Photos by Chris

It was a great week for 5DL! We learned how to write poems, we painted, and we started a new unit in math!

Math

In Math we…

• Started Unit 4 Division with Decimals Unit
• Learned about Divisibility Rules
• Learned how to turn remainders into decimals
• Learned whole number division
• People came to observe our Math Menu from Dover
• We continued more division!
• Started our planning for Gingerbread Math Project
• Started making our Gingerbread project.

Literacy

• We picked a current event and a social emotional we were interested in and picked main questions and brainstormed supporting ones.
• We picked out which world changers really changed the world
• We did more with world changers
• We got a special visit  from Peri! (Mrs. Belanger’s dog!)

Houses

• In houses we got introduced to the gingerbread house project!
• Each  student brought supplies to make their own gingerbread house in a group, which will be part of a bigger class gingerbread community!
• We watched a video on a guy that made a huge city out of gingerbread in about 10 days for inspiration for our project

Questions to Ask Your Child

• What is your theme for the Gingerbread S.T.E.M project?
• What does gratitude mean?
• What is an I Can statement that you’re working on in Math?
• What topics did you pick in literacy?
• What did you do for your winter pomey craft?
• What did you learn in choose love? (Hint: Sam said it 3 times in the Choose Love part)

Choose Love

• We learned more about gratitude
• We learned the gratitude breath
• We learned how to be courageous and have gratitude

THANK YOU so much for helping out a family in need this holiday season! This 

meant the world to me! I wish you all a happy vacation filled with tons of memories to last a lifetime! Also, THANK YOU for the gift card to Golf and Ski!!! It will go 

to good use to make sure our experiences this winter are top notch! So generous and kind of all of you!

Love and Light,

Shannon

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.

Week of November 26-30

Happy Weekend, 5D Families!

What a busy week we had!  Your children are working so hard in each and every part of their day.  Here's a glimpse into our week...

Math

• Math Menu is continuing with multiplication of whole numbers and decimals
• Explored area models
• Learned the traditional method of multiplication
• Practiced a lot
• Problem solved
• Understood that the product gets smaller with a decimal X decimal

Literacy

• Began our Non-Fiction unit
• Noticed how these kinds of book are written
• Read aloud from an amazing book on animal defenses
• Practiced taking notes as "Topic-Sub Topic-Details"
• Also practiced "Boxes and Bullets" to organize our notes

Science

• 5D students visited other classrooms this week
• In 5W, they worked on observable and measurable properties of matter
• In 5P, they worked on properties of water

Choose Love

• This week's lesson focused on CALM, a strategy to use when faced with a problem
• C = Cooperate
• A = Ask Questions
• L = Listen
• M = Make Your Move
• Mrs. Loh and I modeled arguments students may encounter and then students in groups modeled their own

Congrats to 5D's Bhumika for being the Artsonia Artist of the week!  Go on over to Artsonia to check it out.  If you are not yet on Artsonia, let me know and I'll send you a link to join!

Enjoy some pictures from our week...

"Non Fiction Noticing"

Reading Non Fiction

Until Monday....

Shannon