October 8-12

Fun Run!

5th Graders enjoyed their LAST Fun Run! Thank you to all the families who donated money to support out school!

Reading
We finished up our book clubs this week! We celebrated by learning a little more about the Sudan civil war and the "Lost Boys", who were the inspiration for our novel, Home of the Brave. We've been talking about themes, and we see how the themes from Home of the Brave are reflected in the real lives of the "Lost Boys". We made connections to this story/theme to ourselves, our family, and our world.  

Writing
We celebrated all the hard work we did as writer's in our Narrative unit! In the courtyard, we shared our final narratives aloud with partners from across the grade level. Then we spent some time reflecting on all the great writing skills we learned this unit. 

Math
We have been working on adding and subtracting with decimals. We talked about math properties and see that they help us add mentally!
Our Journal Review pages 55, 56 are due Friday 10/19
The Unit 2 Test is Monday, October 22nd 

Social Studies  Students have been having a blast learning about the world and its geography this week.  With partners, students completed 3 different geography challenges where they were labeling different maps with key geographic terms and locations.   They are having fun and learning at the same time!   One more challenge to go next week then we will engage in some fun geography centers to review our learning!    

Our first DG quiz will be on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.   Be sure to study, study, study!    

Science
This week, we spent some time reviewing science concepts that the kids learned in fourth grade. We watched a few short, but interesting videos then had fun responding to them through the Flip Grid app. Have your student show you their post and comments! Once we were reminded that both magnetism and electricity are properties of matter, we started to wonder if solubility could be a property of matter as well. Students investigated to see how many sugar cubes/packets their water could hold. Then they determined if this changed the weight and volume of their original substances.