During our special Halloween snack, students had a great time watching the movies of their scary readers theater skits. Click here to see the movies. I suggest hooking up speakers to your computer, if you have them, so you can hear the voices of the students better. It was a fun way to have the students practice their reading fluency. Enjoy the movies!
Mock Election
Students have been learning about the presidential election. They have been reading about the candidates and discussing the issues of this year's election. On Tuesday they participated in a mock election hosted by Newsela, which is a great on-line resource for non-fiction reading that we have been using in class. After reading and discussing the candidates, they participated in a mock election. Here are the class results:
40% = Hillary Clinton
40% = Donald Trump
13.3% = Jill Stein
6.7% = Gary Johnson
They were very informed voters and very passionate about their candidates. We will be comparing their results to the national results.
Students also had fun playing a game called Win the White House. Please click here to get to the site. You may want to see if you can make it to the White House.
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| 5B Voting in a Mock Presidential Election |
Mapping with Fractions
We have started a unit in math about fractions. Students created maps this week to help them understand fractions on a number line. They also used their maps to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators. They worked very well with each other and created beautiful maps.
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