Spring Update

Courtney and Molly are guest bloggers this week.

     We have been working very hard lately. Here are some examples of how.

     On Friday, April 26^th the entire fifth grade put on an exciting assembly about inclusion. We worked really hard to come up with songs, skits and speeches. Each class came up with a skit and our class did a chant that demonstrated inclusion. 

     At the assembly we watched a video that Mr. Morris sent us. To keep him busy while he’s away, our class sent him some activities to do and creative cards to read.

     Since MCAS is coming up, lately we’ve been working very hard to prepare for it. We’ve been working on math sheets for math and science packets for science.

 

     In Social Studies we are starting a unit about the Revolutionary War. To help us study this time period we are reading biographies by Jean Fritz. 

     Because we earned 15 smiley magnets as a class, we got to play a class kickball game as our treat.  It was really fun and ended up being a close game.

     With this work and preparation we are really confident we will be ready for middle school.

Vacation....here we come!

Today's guest bloggers are Alex and Brianna

     We have managed to get a lot of things done before we head off for vacation.  In math we just finished up multiplying and dividing fractions.  Now we are moving on to geometry. We are learning new and interesting things like polygon hierarchy diagrams and all of the properties of shapes. 
     We have been getting ready for science MCAS by doing review packets of things we have learned all year.  We have a fun hands-on project where we have been creating earth using humus, sand gravel and clay.  We mix the components up and create a mound. Then we create rainstorms and streams to see how the dirt erodes.  Right before vacation we planted seeds then watered them and put saran wrap to keep the water inside so it doesn't evaporate.
     In reading we have been doing literature circles using Sharon Creech books such as Walk Two Moons, Heartbeat, Ruby Holler, Pleasing the Ghost and Granny Torelli Makes Soup.  Also, we have been studying inferencing, looking at the character in each novel.  We have also used wordless picture books to make inferences.
     In social studies we did a similation of the colonial people and the king of England.  We learned how the colonists felt when their money was taken from them.
     We have been working with our kindergarten buddies on sight words.  We also went to the Rhode Island Philharmonic and got to sing along with and play the recorder with the orchestra.