Welcome back after the long weekend! We had a great Valentine's Day celebration on Thursday! Thank you to our wonderful Room Moms and parents for volunteering and helping out with the 5th Grade Party! 💝 Thank you, also, for attending conferences last week! I appreciate your time and enjoyed meeting with each of you!!
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK💡
MATH:
Last week in math we finished up Chapter 6 with test corrections on Monday. From there we moved on to a "review week." On Tuesday, we began preparing for some of our upcoming state testing and practiced solving multi-step word problems. On Thursday, students reviewed adding mixed numbers, subtracting and ordering decimals, finding the area of rectangles, and determining divisibility.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our literacy time last week focused on the nonfiction text, Freedom Walkers. Students examined new vocabulary terms and examined nonfiction text features to better understand this complex text. We continued to explore this story behind the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, and students learned about the impact of Claudette Colvin's bus experience. We practiced visualizing as we compared life in the 1950s to life today and students used evidence from the text to support their opinion in constructed responses.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
We finished up our Washington, D.C. Narrative Writing Performance Task last week. Students completed their research and notes, and used their findings to plan and write a story about visiting the monuments and memorials of Washington, D.C. Additionally, we began a second performance task focusing on Informational Writing and the Transcontinental Railroad.
SCIENCE:
Students continued investigating matter last week! 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. Additionally, 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.
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS📌
MATH:
We will begin Chapter 7: Line Plots and the Coordinate Plane.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our nonfiction study of the text Freedom Walkers will continue this week.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
This week in writing we will continue moving through our Transcontinental Railroad Informational Writing Performance Task.
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
We will continue our Investigating Matter unit this week by exploring chemical reactions.
UPCOMING EVENTS 📆
Tuesday, 2/25: OOBLECK DAY!!
MATH:
Last week in math we finished up Chapter 6 with test corrections on Monday. From there we moved on to a "review week." On Tuesday, we began preparing for some of our upcoming state testing and practiced solving multi-step word problems. On Thursday, students reviewed adding mixed numbers, subtracting and ordering decimals, finding the area of rectangles, and determining divisibility.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our literacy time last week focused on the nonfiction text, Freedom Walkers. Students examined new vocabulary terms and examined nonfiction text features to better understand this complex text. We continued to explore this story behind the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, and students learned about the impact of Claudette Colvin's bus experience. We practiced visualizing as we compared life in the 1950s to life today and students used evidence from the text to support their opinion in constructed responses.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
We finished up our Washington, D.C. Narrative Writing Performance Task last week. Students completed their research and notes, and used their findings to plan and write a story about visiting the monuments and memorials of Washington, D.C. Additionally, we began a second performance task focusing on Informational Writing and the Transcontinental Railroad.
SCIENCE:
Students continued investigating matter last week! 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. Additionally, 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.
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS📌
MATH:
We will begin Chapter 7: Line Plots and the Coordinate Plane.
READING WORKSHOP:
Our nonfiction study of the text Freedom Walkers will continue this week.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
This week in writing we will continue moving through our Transcontinental Railroad Informational Writing Performance Task.
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
We will continue our Investigating Matter unit this week by exploring chemical reactions.
UPCOMING EVENTS 📆
Tuesday, 2/25: OOBLECK DAY!!
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