5B Classroom: Week of September 4th

A note from Mrs. Burke:
It was another wonderful week of getting to know each other better with some more team building activities thrown into the mix of things.  Students also started changing classes this week. They go to Ms. Rhoades for math, and I teach her class language arts.  They transitioned and settled in well.

Soon, the students will be taking over the classroom blog and you will be reading their reflections about things we are leaning in 5B.  

I'm looking forward to another amazing week of learning with them!

Here are some highlights from the week of September 4th:


Language Arts:



In language arts students are leaning about The American Revolution.  We have been reading the book Colonial Voices:  Hear Them Speak to get different perspectives about the war.  Students have been reading other resources as well, to answer questions they have about The American Revolution.



Spider Web Challenge:
It was our biggest team building challenge so far and I'm happy to report that the students nailed it!  They worked together as a whole class to figure out how to get each other through the spider web (i.e., ropes set up on the TOOLs trail to look like a huge spider web) without shaking the spider web too much.  There was great sportsmanship, no arguing, and wonderful collaboration.  This is a very difficult task and I'm so proud of all of them for working together and succeeding. Thank you Mr. Clough for your help. Take a look at them in action:

Classroom Alphabit Celebration:
5B has been earning alphabits for showing me expected behaviors in the classroom. Their goal was to get 100 alphabits and they did it!  They voted to celebrate by going on the zip line in the TOOLs area.  They had so much fun!  Keep up the great work 5B!

Go Noodle Brain Breaks:
To get up an moving in the classroom we take brain breaks using the GoNoodle program.  This group loves to get up and follow along!  My star of the day (classroom helper) gets to choose the brain breaks. Here they are enjoying one of their brain breaks:

Morning Choice:

Sometimes when the students arrive in the morning they can choose from 5 activity centers set up in the room.  This is a relaxing way to start their day and socialize with their friends.  Here they are during their first morning choice: