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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

Book Fair Information

Book Fair starts when we return from Thanksgiving break!

Our times to preview/shop are...

Thursday, 12/3 1:20-2:05

Friday, 12/4 1:20-2:05

November 13, 2015

Hello Parents and Families of 5D!

What a quick week this was with Veteran's Day in the middle of the week.  The students shared all the enjoyable activities they did that day.  Fun, fun!

Here's a glimpse of our week.

• We finished unit 2 in math and took our assessment on Friday.  The assessment covered multiplication, division, powers of ten, exponential notation, interpreting remainders as well as measurement conversions.  We are onto adding and subtracting fractions in Unit 3!
• Our narrative writing unit is almost complete.  Students are in the process of editing and revising their piece and then are putting it into an Animoto.  
• Book clubs are continuing through next week.
• In Science, the students have worked on blood flow.  Next week, they will begin a stem project taking on the role of an engineer.
• In Social Studies, we've looked at push and pull reasons for Europeans coming to the Americas.  We also look at Hernando Cortes and his brutal attack on the Native Americans and Aztec Empire.

The SAU16 Thanksgiving Basket is coming along nicely!  Mrs. Lankler will be coming in next Friday to gather up all the supplies.  THANK YOU to everyone for your kindness and generosity!

In preparation for a Thanksgiving craft, we would appreciate if you have any of these supplies at home to donate to 5D/5H.

1. Small mason jars
2. Small glass gem stones
3. Ribbon
4. Labels

One last reminder,  EARLY RELEASE on 11/18.  Thanksgiving break starts on Wednesday, 11/25.

Enjoy your weekend!

Shannon

11/6/15

• Thank you to all who came to parent conferences this week!  It was wonderful to sit down and talk about all the incredible work your children are doing.  Here's a glimpse into our week...
  
  
  • We have worked diligently with division.  The students no longer write remainders.  The remainders are written as either a fraction or decimal.  We are almost finished with Unit 2 and will be moving into fractions in Unit 3.
  • Reading clubs are continuing with different groups and book choices.  The students' enthusiasm around these clubs has truly impressed and inspired me.  Some of our book choices for this club were Rules, Freak the Mighty, Wonder, and Frindle.
  • We are coming to the conclusion of our narrative unit with one final piece.  The students have put together everything they have learned thus far in a STRONG piece of writing.  All students will be creating an Animoto to show how powerful writing can be.
  • In Social Studies, 5D has been working on colonization from Europe to the Americas.  We've just begun the unit.
  • In Science, 5D visits Ms. Hodgdon every other day.  They have begun to learn about the circulatory and respiratory systems.
  • We Mystery Skyped again.  This time our classroom skyped with Pennsylvania. 
  
  
  Questions to promote school talk...
  
  
  1. What job did you do during the skype?
  2. How are you doing with division?
  3. What have you learned about colonization so far?  Circulatory and respiratory?
  4. What book are you reading in book club and who's in your group?
  5. What's your final narrative about?

  
  

  Thank you to everyone who sent in tissues and paper towel rolls.  It's safe to say our noses will be all set for the remainder of the year!
  
   

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.  Enjoy the warm weather!

Shannon

Pictures from the week

Mystery Skype

Spokespeople

Note takers

Think Tank

The mystery classroom

NH Experts

Our Week

I cannot believe October has ended!  Here's a glimpse into our week...

• We continued with unit 2 in math and have worked hard to master three digit by two digit multiplication. Each student worked on a "Restaurant Project" to showcase mastery.
• Reading Book Clubs are winding down.  New clubs will form next week.
• Almost all students have conferenced about their second narrative.  They have worked diligently to raise the level of their writing. 
• We've continued reading Fish in a Tree and skyped with a classroom in Colorado to talk about it.
• Our Three Worlds Meet unit culminated this week with some AMAZING projects!  All students created slideshows, Animotos, newscasts as well as debates to demonstrate their learning.
• We will be starting a Science unit next week (Circulatory and Respiratory) and a Social Studies unit (Colonization).
• We ended our week with a fifth grade extra birthday recess.  We then joined 5H to play an online quiz game about Halloween (Kahoot!) as well as Halloween Bingo.  A great time was had by all!

A few reminders...

1. Half day Thursday for parent conferences.  Students are dismissed at 12:50.
2. NO SCHOOL Friday for our Teacher Workshop day.
3. Please return a form that went home last week giving permission for the students to use audio and video of themselves for academic purposes.  We hope to make videos with our next S.S. unit.

I hope you all had a fabulous Trick or Treat last night!

-Shannon

Happy Birthday to Johnny!

Skyping about Fish in a Tree

Pumpkin math with our reading buddies

Playing a Columbian Exchange game