News from Trailer E

Reading & Social Studies:

We've been questioning as we read. We defined the difference between explicit and implicit questions and applied those questions to the book The Stranger. This week we also started reading about Native Americans. We introduced our Native Americans group research project. Students will be researching and presenting about the culture, government, geography, and history of Native Americans. The students seem really excited about this project!

Writing:

After lots of brainstorming and planning, we've finally started drafting our personal narrative. Your student had a lot of great stories to tell, so I'm really looking forward to reading their pieces. They have particularly enjoyed our writing stations and creating a "book cover" for their piece. I'm really impressed with the narrative leads I've seen from the students.  They are doing a great job of "showing" and not just "telling" what happens in their story.  I can't wait to share their writing with you in October.

Math:

In math we are working on multi digit multiplication.  Students are reviewing strategies we learned last year and are applying these strategies to larger numbers.  This week we will be learning about exponents and multiplication expressions.

ATTENTION!  HELP WANTED!

Our music teacher, Mrs. Sharp, is looking for some parent volunteers to help her put together a slide show of pictures for the Veteran's Day Performance.  Please let me know if you are interested in helping!

Check out some pictures of what we've been up to!

Science, Kindergarten Buddies, and Dot Day Fun

Which brand of paper towel is the best? In science this week, we used experimental design to develop a test to help us answer this question.  We identified independent, dependent, and controlled variables in order to ensure our test was fair.  Ask your child which paper towel brand you should buy!

We have been busy in 5th grade!  Last week we met our Kindergarten Buddies and helped them build circuits during MakerSpace.

In celebration of Dot Day, we learned how we can all make our mark on the world.  We can be creative, hard working, and helpful.  We can share our talents and our kindness with others to make our mark.  Here are some pictures of helping our Kindergarten Buddies today.

This week we set up our Ipads!!  We are learning together how and when to use them in class.  So far, they have helped us all to learn to be patient. :)  Today we used an art app called Quiver.  The students designed and colored a "dot".

Then we used the Quiver app to turn our art into a 3D design!  Check it out!