For language arts we have been using laptops to do research and write persuasive essays about dinosaurs and what it would be like to live in those ages. We are also plugging along in our classroom novel Wonder and searching for different types of figurative language. Further, we have been doing a lot of work with personal narratives and writers workshop.
In math recently we have finished up place value working with numbers as large as ten million and as small as thousandth. We are working hard with multiplication and decimals right now. Students have an understanding of how to multiply multi-digit numbers as well as with decimals. All fifth graders should be studying their multiplication facts up to 12 nightly! Every Friday we do the Mad Minute where students try to beat their score from the week before.
For science and social studies we have been working with planets and continuing work with states and capitals. Furthermore, we have been looking at maps to better our geography skills. Lastly, we are starting to talk about the 13 colonies and how America came to be.
Our first quarter ended nicely with SEVERAL students on honor roll and perfect attendance! Keep up the good work room 205!
Another great event that happened in 205 was our classroom pizza party for getting so many hallway compliments.
Right before Thanksgiving, we invited the first graders up to our classroom to work together to make turkey disguises to go along with the book "Turkey Trouble."
Lastly our school has been working on a school wide project called "Shake It Off." In the video students from every grade role play some of the major conflicts they have with classmates, and just "shaking them off." We are trying to create an atmosphere of letting little things go, learning to not let them bother us!
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Shake it off Video
Password: shake
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