This Week in Room 33! Nov. 25-26

What to expect this week in 5th grade:

Math- We are finishing up our study on chapters 12 and 13. Our test will be on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Science- Our next unit will be on plants and animals! Check out the free app Fotopedia Wild Friends!

Reading- We will be writing "Screamin' Summaries" today (stay tuned for pictures) and literature circles are tomorrow (Tuesday)! 

Writing- We are finishing up our 1st informational piece on Native Americans this week! We will be taking our "messy" drafts in our notebook and re-drafting onto clean, lined paper. These "polished drafts" will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 3 for our celebration!

*Home Run Club for November will be tomorrow!

*Tonight is Concord's Academic All Stars at the LHS Auditorium. All Stars- please arrive at 7:15. The event starts at 7:30.

*No School Wed., Thurs., and Fri. this week- Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Wonderful Friday!

Today we went to an assembly to see what our next habit is. Also one of our students is in G.O.T.R. (Girls on the run.) Her name is Anna. She is also the one whose is writing this post. Next week we will start reviewing our math for out test. Have a very good weekend!

No Math Video Tonight!!!

There will be no math video tonight! Focus on writing and reading for homework tonight! See you tomorrow! :)

Research tonight!

Don't forget to research. Pen on paper. Get as many facts down as possible in just 10 minutes! You guys can do it!

Researching and Note Taking!

Tonight's 10 min of writing should be spent doing some research and taking notes in our notebook with our drafts! We cut up our drafts today by sub topic, glued them in our notebook and left room to add notes. Here are some tips on note taking that we have discussed in class.

Terrific Tuesday

Today we worked on Summarizing Nonfiction. Also,we did our flash drafts for our Nonfiction writing on Indians. Let me tell you it was some fast writing. It was a terrific Tuesday.

Tonight's Math Video on Divisibility Rules

A number is divisible by another number when it can go into the number evenly without a remainder! For example, 10 is divisible by 5 and 2! Check out this video to learn the divisibility rules for the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10. Make the following chart on a piece of paper and take notes from the video to fill it in!

Number            Divisibility Rule

2                       If the # is even, then it is divisible by 2

3

4

5

9
10

Tonight's Math Video on the Distributive Property

Tonight's homework is to watch this video on the distributive property. Please solve the last one on a piece of paper and bring it in tomorrow!

Organizing our Information

In writing today we wrote about the Native Americans and we were thinking and wrote bout the natives on post its. We organized them by topic. We are ready to flash draft tomorrow!

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 18-22

What to expect this week in 5th grade:

Math- We are currently finishing up chapter 12 and beginning chapter 13. Topics this week include: multiplication properties, distributive property, divisibility rules, multiples, and greatest common factor.

Science- We will have our weather test on Thursday. Study guides are in binders! Please study your notebook. Check out the Science page of this blog for flashcards on Quizlet!

Reading- Our reading strategy focus is on summarizing especially with nonfiction. Our cold read "Sequoyah and the Cherokee" is due Friday. Students are working on different parts each morning for morning work. If they are unable to complete it during morning work, they may work on it at home. Literature circles are on Thursday.

Writing- We are beginning our next unit on informational writing! We will be writing research reports with a focus on Native Americans! This week we will be organizing our knowledge, writing flash-drafts, researching and note taking, and revising with a focus on geography.

Reminders:

Tue. 11/19- Winter Party Planning @ 6:15 & PTG meeting @ 7

Mon. 11/25- Academic All Stars @ 7:30

11/27-29 No School- Thanksgiving!

Weather Test This Thursday!

Writing Celebration with our Buddies!

Native American Research

Native american overview from Nicole Schaefer

Tips on Note-Taking

• Read a section of text, pause to think about what is important, and then write your notes.
• Consider the main ideas and supporting details as you read. A structure like boxes and bullets can help you organize your notes.
• Instead of copying from the text, put the information in your own words. (If this is hard, don't look at the original text when recording notes.)
• Keep track of your source so you can return later to confirm or get more information.

Tonight's Math Video on FUNctions!

Let's have FUN with FUNctions! :) Watch the video for homework and complete the last one problem on a piece of paper and bring to class tomorrow!

Tonight's Math Video on Number Patterns

Here is tonight's video on number patterns! There is a problem you have to solve at the end. Bring your answer in to school tomorrow!

Publish writing

Yesterday we started to publish our narratives! Today some of us printed our stories and may be done. And the other half are still working and are will be done tomorrow. The narratives are due THURSDAY! Have a nice evening.

* A note from Mrs. Schaefer- We are using google drive to publish! Every student has a google account and is able to access their google drive from ANY computer/device with Internet access! Their account is 21firstlast@lindberghschools.ws (first name and last name). Their password is a 10 digit code that they have written in their planners. This also means students have access to gmail- they can email me with questions! :)

Here are some pictures from our anemometer investigation today!

Veteran's Day Spectacular

We had an awesome assembly this morning honoring our veterans. We got to listen to a 91 year old World War II veteran. He talked about his experiences in the coast guard on the coast of North Carolina. He talked about his friends and how he made a reunion for everyone in the coast guard. He was only 18 years old and had to have his parents sign!

Tonight's homework is to write a dedication page and about the author page in our google drive!

Please bring in $2 for our pizza party on Wednesday!

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 11-15

What to expect this week in 5th grade:

Math- We are studying chapter 12 this week on using multiplication and division. Topics covered this week include order of operations (PEMDAS!), number patterns, functions, and multiplication properties.

Science- This week we will be creating line graphs to show our weather data!

Reading- Our focus in reading will be on summarizing!


Writing- It's time to wrap up our personal narrative unit! We will be publishing our personal narratives using google drive! We will create a cover, dedication page, about the author, and a back cover summary. We will CELEBRATE our writing this week- we have been working SO HARD and I cannot wait to see and share our final pieces!
Our spelling tests will be this Friday and our words contract will be due!

We EARNED our FIRST PARTY!!!! We got 10 in a row last week on our "Behavior Bingo" chart and are excited to celebrate our HARD WORK and DEDICATION to staying focused during school. The kids voted on a PIZZA PARTY! If you could please send in $2 to help pay for pizza, it would be greatly appreciated!!! Our pizza party will be on Wednesday! Students can bring in a drink and snack to go with their pizza!

Reminder:
Wed. is Early Release! Dismissal is at 1:50.

Couple pictures from last week...

Reviewing for our division test!

One of our science classes was able to finally do our anemometer investigation because there was a wind speed of 14 mph! Hoping for another day of high wind speed so the other science class can do theirs soon!