Weekly update!

The week has gotten off to a great start!  Every student has been working well together and I am proud of their efforts across all subject areas.  The class has earned three team tickets for working so cooperatively in groups. Keep up the solid effort!

The past two days, students have been finishing up there reading in science about aerial photography, photogrammetrists and national parks. Tomorrow, they will present their advertisement plays to sell an adventure to the national park of their choice.  The science reviews will be given tomorrow, so that students have Thursday to review challenge areas and feel confident heading into the test on Friday.

Fifth and sixth graders have additionally turned in their persuasive essays and before we begin our new unit on the Revolutionary War in our reading and writing curriculum, we are delving into poetry! They have welcomed the vast array of poetry at their fingertips and have created their own free verse and rhyming poems.

5th grade math update: Students will receive a math review tomorrow that we will start in class.

Inquiry projects are underway and the planning continues. The final projects will be presented on November 2nd. Today in class, students filled out an update worksheet and planning timeline to stay on track for their inquiries. I am excited to see all of the wonderful ideas and questions that have arisen from these opportunities!

Lit Circles continue this week and students have been meeting in their discussion groups. Today, they did an excellent job of reviewing expectations for leading discussions and contributing their connections, inferences, predictions and reflections.


***Note: Spanish "frases" test will be given on Friday. Students will be tested on the first three weeks of Spanish conversational phrases in pairs.  Students can study these every day during their "Literacy Living" time at the end of the afternoon.

Have a great day!

~Ms. Dobyns