DINO-Mite Writing!

Prompt: Imagine you woke up and saw a dinosaur in your backyard.  Write a story telling what you see and do.

This is a photo of the bulletin board outside our classroom with the completed prompts and accompanying illustrations of our dinosaur stories!

 

HW Week of 3/26-3/30

Presenting: Rumpelstiltskin!

Here is a short preview from a Reader's Theater T-time group.  Due to a few absences on the day of videotaping Mrs. Coffey had to fill in as Narrator and Mrs. Beckwith had to fill in as the King.  The students did an awesome job memorizing their lines and putting on a great production!

Literature Circle Discussion- Across Five Aprils

Here is a glimpse of our literature circle groups.  We just wrapped up our unit integrating Civil War novels into our reading period.  The students assigned their own reading homework and completed a specific job to be shared the following day during discussion.  Teachers served as facilitators to the student-led groups.  Enjoy!

HW Week of 3/19-3/23

Happy Pi Day! 3.14

Check out this article about 3.14 ways you can celebrate today!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/pi-day-314-ways-you-can-celebrate/2012/03/14/gIQAXR4pBS_blog.html

Lit Circles HW

These reading assignments must be completed for class on Wednesday.

Across 5 Aprils- p. 94-107
Perilous Road- p. 82-97
Charley Skedaddle- p. 89-95
Shades of Gray- finish ch. 7 and read ch. 8
Civil War on Sunday- p. 36-40

Going Home Today...

Tonight's Reading Homework 3/7

Across Five Aprils- p. 50-64
Civil War on Sunday- p. 18-25
The Perilous Road- p. 33-43
Shades of Gray- finish chapter four
Charley Skedaddle- p. 51-62

AND Literature Circle Jobs

Tonight's Reading Homework 3/6

Across Five Aprils- p. 31-46
Civil War on Sunday- p. 10-17
The Perilous Road- finish ch. 2 and read five pages into ch. 3
Shades of Gray- p. 27-30
Charley Skedaddle- p. 34-50

AND Literature Circle Jobs

Be on the Lookout....

for 3rd Quarter Progress Reports coming home today!

A Dinosaur??

Prompt: Imagine you woke up and saw a dinosaur in your backyard.  Write a story telling what you see and do.

Students started these last week and are in the process of brainstorming and planning their stories.  Of course, the first thing they had to do was pick an actual dinosaur to write about!   

Tonight's Reading Homework

 Students should read the following assignment and complete their job.

Across Five Aprils- Chapter 1
Civil War on Sunday- Ch. 1
Perilous Road- Ch. 1
Shades of Gray- Ch. 1+2
Charley Skedaddle- Ch. 1+2

Civil War Literature Circle Novels

Today we start our next reading unit!  The fifth grade students are running Literature Circles using novels connected to the American Civil War.  Here are the five books:

Homework Week of 3/5

This is our homework sheet for this week.  Some of the lines and formatting were changed in the process of making this a jpg file, but you can still see the important stuff.

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Maniac Magee- Two Mills Times

We just finished reading Jerry Spinelli's novel, Maniac Magee, in our fifth grade reading groups.  One of the groups created a newspaper full of articles, photos, and advertisements all relevant to the storyline.  See below!

 

Happy Snow Day!

Welcome to our classroom blog!

I hope you are having a fun day out in the snow and sipping some yummy hot chocolate.

There is no reading homework tonight.  We will complete the lit circle job Word Wizard and the reading of All About Chocolate tomorrow in class.

For Friday:

• Bring in math column completed for the week
• Bring in spelling packet completed for the week
• Spelling Test Unit 20 Review
• Math Quiz on Adding/Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• March Math Madness Basketball Shots during PE!
• Progress Monitoring (make-ups from today)

See you tomorrow.