Science Fair

Julissa Gonzales was one of the 5th grade winners of the science fair this year.  

Kaylee was an issuer who also won from our class.

Way to go girls!

December and January Things

 A few pictures of some of the things we have been doing in class:

Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems

During Thanksgiving week we made acrostic poems with thanksgiving words. Here are a few from the students:

This is our blog!

Dear Parents,

            I just want to take a moment to bring you up to speed on the things going on in our classroom.

We are just finishing up our Social Studies unit of Explorers. Your children learned about who the explorers were who discovered the American continents and why they explored. From here our focus will turn to the colonies that were established, with the majority of our time looking at the original 13 English colonies and how these colonies were set up that lead the to the ideas of self government.

In math we have been working on fractions. Our time has been spent on finding equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and most recently, adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. The next few steps that we will be doing in fractions is adding or subtracting mixed numbers and multiple strategies to do that. I have resources on the blog that can help you if you have any questions.

In language arts we have been working on many basic skills. In reading we have been using the basic skill of reading to comprehend the text. We have also learned about making inferences to look deeper into the text and the author’s purpose. For writing we have been reviewing how to write complete paragraphs using a topic sentence and the bigger skill of putting order to a short essay. This is still a new skill to us, but it will be honed as the year goes on.

Some of the things that we will be working on in language arts in the upcoming weeks is a unit on figurative language that we will use in reading and writing. This will be a big focus for us in 5^th grade as we use it to interpret texts and also to make our writing more interesting.

For science we have been working on heredity and about observable traits that are passed from parents to offspring and about learned behaviors and instinctive behaviors. There will be no major project for this section of science.

Just as a heads up, 5^th grade will be doing the program this year. This will take place on December 2. More details will be coming, but I just wanted to make you aware of it so that you can plan it into your schedule.

One last request that I would like to make is that if you will be missing some days of school please let me know at least two days in advance and even better if it is a week so that I can provide the necessary materials in an appropriate manner.

Thanks for all that you do! If you have any questions or concerns just contact me.

Sincerely,

            Mr. Hart