Hi room 5 families! We can't believe how fast the time is going by. We have been busy working on our superhero project, learning new spelling tools in Fundations, working on word problems. Read on to see what we have been up to in room 5 and for ways to support students at home. We had a very special visit from some more everyday heroes, fire fighters! Engine 22 came to visit us at school. We go tot meet with the fire chief and some of the fire fighters who work at stations 22. We learned about the tools fire fighters use as well as what it might look like and sound like if fire fighters come to help. Parents can ask their student, "What do fire fighters do? Do they work alone or in a team? How are fire fighters everyday heroes?" Ms. Tasi taught us about Dia de Los Muertos and how to make art with oil pastels to celebrate the holiday. We have been working very hard on our superhero project and shared some of our drafts with our high school buddies. We asked for feedback on our work. We can't wait for you to see it at our exhibition on Thursday, December 13! Some questions that parents can ask their student now are: "What is critique?" "Why do you do more than one draft?" Jog-a-thon was amazing (and hot)! Thank you to all of our awesome parents who helped make it possible! Here we are stretching before the run and then cheering on our 5th grade buddies. We are thankful for...
We made thankful pies and wrote down some things that we are grateful for in honor of Thanksgiving!
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Hi room 5 families! How is it already November? We are 5 weeks away from our school wide exhibition. Below are are some of the things we are working on through the week. We painted and decorated pumpkins on Halloween! Each student has picked a super power that they feel like they contribute to our school community. We are working on creating a symbol for our super power and turning it into hero costumes. Parents you can ask your child, "What is symbol?" "What symbol did you create for your power? Why?" We are also working on multiple drafts and learning that there is always room for us to grow and make changes to our working to make it even better. Below we are working on our drafts of our super power symbol. This week we got to visit our high school buddies in their classroom! We were excited to be in a 9th grade classroom at High Tech Media Arts. We have been working on reading just right books to our buddies. In math we are working on making making different combinations of 10 and 20. Here were are playing How many in a cup. We also play a quick game called "show me ___" where students use their fingers to show different ways to make a number. Parents can ask "Show how to make 10." "Can you show me another way?" In math we are also working on adding groups of numbers (this is the beginning of multiplication which students will dive into in 2nd grade). The focus of these problems is for students to add multiple groups and understand why they have specific groups of numbers. Below are two problems that we worked on as a class this past week. Students can practice this skill at home with everyday activities like setting the table "how many forks and knives or chopsticks do we need if there are 4 people eating dinner?".
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending our time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
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