Using Resources

Today, students are working with their literacy partners and a variety of resources to learn about parts of speech.  Students are using their laptops, dictionaries, and resource texts to find information.  Each team is providing information about nouns, verbs, articles, adverbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases. The kids are discovering that copying definitions does not help them understand, but using multiple resources and talking to their partners helps immensely.  Once students have a clearer understanding of these terms, we will find them in their reading.  The ultimate goal with this project is to improve student writing by understanding these parts of speech.

 

Ice Cream Social today

Come and get a MISS PIGGY today at the Ice Cream Social. The teachers will start serving ice cream at 6:00 and then open up the classrooms at 6:30.  Please stop by and say 'hi.'

Meap begins

Meap testing began this week.  5th graders are taking science, reading, and math this year.  We are testing this week and most of next week.  So far students are doing a great job with handling the stress of these important tests.  Keep up the good work, 5th graders!

The students created this sign this week to add a little humor to the serious topic of state testing!

Capture the Flag

Today in physical education, the students played capture the flag.  There are two teams, the red team and the yellow team.  The object of the game is to grab the other team's flag and run it back without being captured.  There is area in the middle of the field called No Man's Land where you are safe.  If the red team goes onto the yellow side, they are no longer safe which means the yellow team can take their flag and they enter the jail.  In order to get out of jail, someone from your team has to deliver your flag to you without getting caught. If you take the opposite team's flag and happen to get it back without being captured, your team gets a point.  Today the yellow team was victorious 7 - 3. Everyone had so much fun!