Sunday, October 29, 2017

5B Classroom News: Week of Oct. 23rd

A note from Mrs. Burke:
I emailed confirmations for parent teacher conferences.  If you did not receive an email from me, please let me know.  I'm looking forward to conferences and discussing your child's progress in 5th grade.

Here is the learning that occurred this past week, from the perspective of students in 5B:

Math:


In math we are learning about fractions and how to add, subtract, multiply and divide them.
    ---Lucy

In math we are learning about fractions.
    - LARKYN

In math with Ms. Rhoades, we are starting a new unit about fractions.
    -Nolan



Language Arts: 
Students are reading the book Esperanza Rising and learning about human rights and how these rights are threatened in the book.

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Article two of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is don’t discriminate.
    -Nolan


Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights say’s don’t discriminate.
-Ella



Social Studies:
Students are learning about colonization.  As part of this unit they are reading the book Blood on the River and researching a colonial trade.

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In the book Blood on the River. The Native Americans have attacked the colony and then they all were sick and lots of people died.
    ~Jocelyn


In the book Blood on the River, we have been reading about what the French did when the reached Virginia.  President Wingfield is the current president and is treating his people unfairly.
    -Bennett

In the book Blood on the River the Indians attacked and killed one of the workers named James.
     ---Addyson

In social studies we all are learning about colonial trades from back in the 16 hundreds.
    -Sophia

I learned that a silversmith makes things out of silver and gold.
    -Nolan

Here is one of our students sharing the information she researched 
about the saddler trade.




Read Aloud Book:
Students are drawing houses that are inspired by the book The Twenty-One Balloons.  Their drawing will be displayed on the bulletin board outside our classroom door so you can see them during parent teacher conferences.

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In the book The Twenty-One Balloons we are listening to Professor Sherman tell his story about Krakatoa. I do not think he should be telling them about the diamond mines though, because they said that he needed to keep Krakatoa a secret.
     ~Lily

I am drawing a Japanese house.
    ~COLBY



Second Step:
In Second Step this week, students were learning the difference between being aggressive and passive, and what it means to be assertive.  They participated in an activity where they had to sculpt their partner into an aggressive or passive stance.

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I SCULPTED BENNETT INTO A WEIRD SHAPE.
    ~ COLBY

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