Happy March! Testing season is upon us and I'm sure the next three weeks will fly by! Hold on tight....it's hard to believe we've completed our second trimester of 5th grade!!
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK💡
MATH:
Last week in math we finished up Chapter 8. Students practiced classifying triangles and polygons. We reviewed the major concepts from the unit on Thursday and took our final assessment on Friday.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our literacy time last week was spent wrapping up our nonfiction text study, Freedom Walkers. Throughout the week, students examined new vocabulary terms and practiced using various comprehension strategies to better understand this complex text. As we finished exploring this story behind the Montgomery bus boycott, students learned about the legacy these boycott heroes left behind. We continued using evidence to support our opinions in constructive responses, and created a detailed summary of this story's events.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
Opinion writing continued last week in fifth grade! Students read and discussed persuasive essays on the topics of animal testing and school uniforms, and considered the author's audience and purpose. Our writers also continued to experiment with developing their own opinion essays.
SCIENCE:
Our Investigating Matter unit came to an end last week with a few final exciting lessons! This time we focused on heating and cooling matter, and whether or not a material's weight changes once it's heated cooled, or mixed with other substances. Through an investigation of water/ice, olive oil and tea, and glycerin soap and paraffin wax, students learned that the weight of matter is conserved when heated or cooled. Next, students compared separate weights of water, salt, and oil with mixtures of those materials. Through measuring, weighing, and graphing data, students discovered that the total weight of matter is conserved in mixtures. And finally, on Friday, our class examined the changing properties of matter as they created Oobleck mixtures!
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS📌
MATH:
Three out of five of our math blocks this week will be used for testing. We will enjoy our time together on Monday and Friday practicing our problem solving skills.
READING WORKSHOP:
We will move back into our small reading groups for the next three weeks and continue to focus on fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension skills.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
This week in writing we will continue moving through our Opinion Writing unit.
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
We will begin our next social studies unit, The Bill of Rights.
UPCOMING EVENTS📆
Please see our testing schedule below, along with a fun Spring Countdown!
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK💡
MATH:
Last week in math we finished up Chapter 8. Students practiced classifying triangles and polygons. We reviewed the major concepts from the unit on Thursday and took our final assessment on Friday.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our literacy time last week was spent wrapping up our nonfiction text study, Freedom Walkers. Throughout the week, students examined new vocabulary terms and practiced using various comprehension strategies to better understand this complex text. As we finished exploring this story behind the Montgomery bus boycott, students learned about the legacy these boycott heroes left behind. We continued using evidence to support our opinions in constructive responses, and created a detailed summary of this story's events.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
Opinion writing continued last week in fifth grade! Students read and discussed persuasive essays on the topics of animal testing and school uniforms, and considered the author's audience and purpose. Our writers also continued to experiment with developing their own opinion essays.
SCIENCE:
Our Investigating Matter unit came to an end last week with a few final exciting lessons! This time we focused on heating and cooling matter, and whether or not a material's weight changes once it's heated cooled, or mixed with other substances. Through an investigation of water/ice, olive oil and tea, and glycerin soap and paraffin wax, students learned that the weight of matter is conserved when heated or cooled. Next, students compared separate weights of water, salt, and oil with mixtures of those materials. Through measuring, weighing, and graphing data, students discovered that the total weight of matter is conserved in mixtures. And finally, on Friday, our class examined the changing properties of matter as they created Oobleck mixtures!
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS📌
MATH:
Three out of five of our math blocks this week will be used for testing. We will enjoy our time together on Monday and Friday practicing our problem solving skills.
READING WORKSHOP:
We will move back into our small reading groups for the next three weeks and continue to focus on fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension skills.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
This week in writing we will continue moving through our Opinion Writing unit.
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
We will begin our next social studies unit, The Bill of Rights.
UPCOMING EVENTS📆
Please see our testing schedule below, along with a fun Spring Countdown!
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