Ice Cube Prototype Challenge!

Today we are completing our ice cube challenge. Students are trying to build a prototype that would keep an ice cube cold the longest.

Mrs. Clapham's last day!

Today we said goodbye to our student teacher, Mrs. Clapham. We wish her well in her future teaching career!

Desk Cleanup!

Ice cube/ insulator Project

This morning Mrs. Demers went over the science project we will take part in on December 23rd. We will be researching insulators and making prototypes to keep an ice cube cold for several hours. This project is to be prepared at home, but we will build and test in school. Your child should be bringing home the lab report and directions today. I will post one as well, it's really fun!!!

Homework Links

As mentioned at Parent Conferences, I would like to cut down on the amount of paper/copies made for homework. I am linking "Get to 50", Current Event, and Reading Log templates.

Current Event

Get to 50

Response Prompts- Reader Response

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are some savy shoppers planning a holiday meal for eight people. It was entertaining seeing the students choose items based on a $30.00 budget.

Literature Circles!

We are spending some time reading Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin. The students have been very enthusiastic about this novel and are doing a wonderful job during literature circles! Here are some pictures of the class discussing chapters 1-9 today in class.

Food Drive

Once again the fifth grade is sponsoring JA's annual food drive. We will be collecting food items from the community for the next few weeks, in order to make sure all of our students will have a great holiday. Grade 5 is responsible for bringing in breakfast foods of any kind.

Medieval Faire

Today was the medieval Faire at JA! Our class had a blast making medieval themed crafts, playing medieval games, and enjoying a medieval concert performance.

Donors Choose Project

Over the summer, Mrs. Demers and I applied for a grant that would provide our classes with six chromebooks to use. Since receiving them, we have seen the amazing products our students have created and we hope to obtain more toward a full class set. I have created a Donors Choose project in order to obtain seven more chromebooks. We have already received two donations! If you know of any businesses that make charitable donations, we would be so grateful if you could share our project! Thank You!

Donors Choose Chrome Books for Our Creative Classroom

Explorer Project

In social studies our class has been learning about European explorers and how their explorations impacted the world. As a final assignment for this unit, the students have been assigned an explorer project. The due date is November 3rd. Click on the link below for a copy of the assignment.

Explorer Project information

Walk to school day!

Some pictures from the recent walk to school day and Barrett Park field trip. Our  class hiked and found four geocaches hidden in the park!

Catapults!

Our class is working is working on building catapults using simple machines in preparation for the upcoming Medieval fair!

Back To School!

We are off to a great start in 5B. The students are settled in and beginning to do all of the activities that make 5th grade special. We have started recycling, students have signed up for band, and we are looking ahead to schedule our field trip to Barrett Park.

Three Branches of Government

 

For the past three weeks in Social Studies class we have been studying all about the Constitution. The students have been assigned a webquest, poster project, and an assessment assignment all in this time.. needless to say they have been hard working! I wanted to show off some of what they have accomplished . So here are a few videos of one of the choices from their assessment menu, make a parody of a song using the three branches of government. I was blown away by their creativity and talent! I will work on getting their posters up as well. Marilyn and Molly's Rendition to Let it Go
Adam and Emily's "I'm the Prez" video and Julia and Sage's "Dark Horse" 3 Branches video . There is more to upload, stay tuned!

Welcome to 5B's blog! I am excited to be able to communicate and share all of the great things the students are doing with you. I am new to blogging, so bear with me while I learn the ins and outs. Stay tuned!