Sunday, September 27, 2020

5B Classroom News: Week of Sept. 21st

A note from Mrs. Burke: Hello 5B families! We are starting to settle into our new routines now that we are in week 3. Students are following all of the safety protocols that have been put in place and I am very proud of them for taking these safety measures seriously. One of the safety protocols we use is a Safety Snake, that each student made with rope and colored duct and electrical tape, to measure and make sure they are staying distantly safe.



Thank you for letting me know how much you are enjoying the pictures that are being posted of the students. Before you read what our classroom reporters have posted this week, here are some more pictures for you to look at to get a glimpse of what we we've been up to in 5B:

OQS Spirit Days:

Rainbow day (wear lots of color) on September 18th:



Crazy Sock Day on September 25:



Drumming in Music Class with Mrs. Wadleigh:

Click here to watch and listen to their amazing performance!


All School Ice Pop Celebration on Friday for reaching 1300 Alphabits!




Recess Fun:







Earlier in the week I sent an email inviting you to join Seesaw which is another app I will be using to communicate with you. Please accept my invitation as soon as possible so you can see some of the work your child has been doing at school.

Keep reading to see what our classroom reporters posted this week!

Second Step Reflections:

This week during Second Step you learned about empathy and respect.  When you have empathy you understand what others might be feeling. Being respectful is considering how someone would like to be treated and then treating them that way. Respect shows that you care about others and it helps you to get along better with everyone. 

  • What does it mean to show empathy for someone?  

  • How have you shown empathy?  

  • When is a time you’ve been respectful of someone else?


To show empathy for someone means to put yourself in someone's shoes.

I have shown empethy by helping a friend when hurt. A time when i was respectful of someone else was when i said thank you when she gave me dinner. -Ashlynn


One thing I have done to show respect is helped a friend during recess. I took

them over to play something else. -Ayela


The way I have shown empathy was my friend was hurt on the soccer field and I went over and made sure they were ok. A time i've been respectful to someone else was yesterday someone was talking to me and I let them finish what they were saying -Brandon 


To show empathy for someone means to be in their shoes. I have shown empathy by giving people good compliments. I have been respectful for someone is by leting them finish their sentence. -Brody


To show empathy for someone means to look at other people prospective. I have shown empathy by helping a friend if they got hurt. A time I was respectful of someone else was when I let them finish their sentance  -Carsyn


To show empathy for someone means to put yourself in their shoes. I have shown empathy by helping a friend when they got hurt. A time I was respectful of someone else was when I let them finish their sentence. -Emmett


To show empathy to someone is to look at their point of view or to “take a walk in their shoes”. -Gabe


It means to put yourself in someone else's shoes. I have shown empathy by helping people up if they fall down. I have been respectful when i say thank you. -Hayden


To show empathy for someone means to look at someone else's perspective.

I have shown empathy by helping a friend when they are hurt. -Jackson


Empathy is when you put yourself in someone else's shoes. One time I showed

empathy was listening to something really boring that my sister was saying. 

-Jacob


When someone gets heart you help them How have I shown empathy helping my friends when they get heart in soccer or eneywere. When a person is spacing  -Kira


It  means to show empathy to someone help them like if someone is hurt go

help them or if someone needs help to cary recess bin go help them and do it .

-Mia


To show empathy for someone means to walk in their shoes. I have shown empathy by helping my family with bringing groceries in the house. I have been respectful to someone when they're talking. -Vivian


We are reading aloud the book Wonder to support our Second Step lessons and to reinforce kindness, empathy, and respect. Here are the students listening to the story in our Creekside outdoor classroom:




Science Reflections:

What did you learn about habitats during our Habitat Circle activity this week? What things do all animal life need to survive?


All animals need 4 things to survive. Those things are food, water, shelter, and space. We learned about this outside by doing a cycle rope activity. -Ayela

Animals need to survive is water, food, space, shelter. -Brody

I learned in the “habitat circle” activity that animals need food, water, shelter, and space in their habitat to survive I also learned that if a habitat does not have one the others will go away. -Gabe

Food,water,space and shelter if they don’t have all the resources they will need to go somewhere else. -Hayden

I learned that all habitats need food, water, shelter, and space And that all animal life needs those four things to survive. -Isaac

All animals need food, water, shelter, oxigon, and space to survive. -Jacob


I learned about habitats during our habitat circle activity this week is what things do all animal life need to survive is water and food, spase, shelter. -Prisco


What they need to survive is food, water, space, and shelter. -Vivian