Sunday, May 14, 2017

5B Classroom News: Week of May 8th

Morning Choice Is a Big Hit!
The students are really enjoying easing into their morning with a choice activity when they arrive in the classroom.  It gives them a chance to socialize with a group of students while at the same time practicing a skill such as writing, computer coding, art, multiplication fact fluency and many others.  On most mornings they have up to 5 activities from which to choose.  I try to mix up the choices each day and we are adding new ones all of the time.

Lochlan, Evan, Sadie and Ella are using Hour of Code to do computer programming.

Leiyah, Ali, and Kendall practice their artistic skills using Play-doh.

Kate and Brody try to create dollar words to earn some Burke bucks.

Lilly and Sonya are classroom reporters today, writing posts for our blog.

Gail, Matthew, Nick, and Aiden are practicing their multiplication facts using our ipads.

Science:  Biome Presentations
On Wednesday and Thursday, students presented their biome projects.  There were slideshows, essays, tv commercials, informational videos, educational videos, news reports, dioramas, brochures, information booths, and posters. It was inspiring to see all of their hard work.  They were very proud to share what they learned and I'm very proud of all of them.


                                                       The Taiga Biome
 


The Tundra Biome

 

                                                            The Desert Biome
 


                                                          The Ocean Biome


                                               The Tropical Rain Forest Biome
 

 

                                                      The Freshwater Biome
 


                                                The Deciduous Forest Biome


Field Trip to See Shrek, Jr.
This week we went on a field trip to the Hartford High School to watch a play called Shrek.  It was really fun to watch.  It was also confusing because the middle school was doing the play, but it was at the high school.  That is what we did this week.
--Lilly

On Wednesday my class, 5B, went to the High School to see the the Hartford Middle School musical about Shrek and donkey. It was amazing!                                                                                                          
--Gail

On Wednesday we went to the Shrek play at the Hartford High School that was performed by the Hartford Middle School. My favorite character is the dragon because it was a really good part and her costume was really cool. My favorite song was Story of My Life sung by the fairy tale creatures.
--Sadie Clough

On Wednesday we went to a high school play called Shrek and it was awesome!  It was so funny and even though there were parts where they had a short period of time when they were supposed to be talking it was amazing and really interesting how they set it up. I am so glad that we got to go to it because it is fun and amazing how well they do it and set it up. I love to watch them and they make me want to do it next year when I get the chance.
- -Leiyah Fisher

We went to see Shrek the musical and it was really good and we got to see friends from other grades in the middle school.
--Ella


Writing using the Storybird App
In writing we set up Storybird accounts. Storybird is a website where you can type stories and add pictures. You can write a long or short story, or create a picture book.
--Sonya

We have done work on a website called Storybird where you take pictures drawn by other people and create a story based on the picture of our choice and Nick is writing about a fish with no friends who drives a car. Also, Brody is writing about Bobby a big fat blue stupid thing.         
--Evan



Reading:  Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
In reading we are reading a book called Woods Runner about a boy named Samuel.
--Sonya
                                                             
The book Woods Runner is about a boy named Samuel who one day went hunting and he started to look at some smoke going up and it was right by his town. Then he came back and his house burnt down and most of the houses around his house. His parents got taken, followed by other kids being taken, and some towns people dying.
--Gail


Math Monsters
In math we are doing math monsters.  We solved a bunch of math problems and we got a sheet where if our answers were right then it would show a monster. Then we had to write a narrative. It took a long time.
--Brody Tyburski


SBAC Testing
We are doing SBAC tests right now.  They are sometimes hard and sometimes easy.  You have to focus on the test and think hard about it to do well.  So far we have done the math test.  Next week we will do the ELA test which has a lot of writing in it.
--Kate  












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