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!

Reaction Time

Today, students used a strip of paper to calculate their reaction time.  One student would drop the paper without warning and the other person had to catch the paper with their fingers.  When students grabbed the sheet, there were numbers showing how quickly they reacted.  The goal of the lesson was to teach students about decimal values in the tenths and hundredth place while also practicing landmark data.  Once students had a lot of reaction time data for each hand, they calculated mean, mode, range, maximum, and minimum.  The kids noticed that each hand had different speeds and they had a chance to compare their data to the other students.

Curriculum Night

Thank you to everyone that could make it to curriculum night.  As you can see the students were very busy with creating replicas of themselves.  The students worked so hard creating these true autobiographies. 

Learning the Expectations

We are wrapping up our first week at school, and I'm so excited for my class.  They have been doing a wonderful job learning the routines and expectations. Building stamina in our reading and writing lives is one of the first things we work on.  We compared how a marathon runner trains by increasing the amount they run over an extended period of time and how that relates to them as building stamina during readers' and writers' workshop.  Take a look at the photos below of my students building their reading stamina.  I was so impressed with each and every one of them.

Bag it!

Welcome to 5th grade!!!

Welcome to 5th Grade! So glad you're checking out the blog.  I will be posting pictures of the classroom, student work, upcoming events, and much more.  Please bookmark the site or sign up to follow as I change the blog often.  I hope that your child had a wonderful first day of school.