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Monday, May 13, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Collecting Data and Formulating Percents!
Students developed a question that they could survey their classmates on to collect data. Today was perfect for representing the data into a percent as we had exactly 20 students present today! Students started with the question...
Some people went a tad dark...
Then students represented how many were in favor or not in favor with percents! Students really enjoyed this activity and saw a purpose for using math!
Practicing the names and location of the United States!
Students played a game where they had to identify and name the 50 states! There may have been some math involved too!
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Reviewing Inflectional Endings -ed and -ing spelling patterns!
Students were misspelling many words when adding the suffixes -ed or -ing when they needed to "drop the e" or "double the consonants". Word study time!
As students went to read, they were to locate and record one word that represented the spelling pattern. We sorted them and tomorrow we will have a mixed review using these words!
As students went to read, they were to locate and record one word that represented the spelling pattern. We sorted them and tomorrow we will have a mixed review using these words!
Thursday, April 4, 2019
1920's and 1930's Learning!
Students learn about the Dust Bowl and its devastating effects on the geography and economics of the time.
Students learn about immigration through Angel Island and explore what a "Paper Son" is. We used this awesome book to learn more!
Learning about the Great Depression with this picture book. Students learn content-specific vocabulary while following "Rudy" travel by train across the United States.
Students are watching mini video clips learning about some important people and ideas post WWI:
Students read two articles from NewsELA that addresses the economics of life during the 1920s. It was considered the time of "buy now, pay later". With the introduction of the washing machine, the vacuum, and the refrigerator housework was lessened and free time increased.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
2019 Invention March Madness Event
Each year, the fifth-grade team does an Invention March Madness Event where each class submits their two top invention videos. The idea is to persuade the viewer to think that their invention is the most important invention since Colonial times. Here are a few of the selections from this year's competition!
Finding Volume in Real World Settings
Students were challenged to find the volume of the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. Students were estimating the volume of the 9 towers to find an approximate volume for the actual skyscraper! Such a great, thought-provoking lesson for fifth graders!
This is a lesson from our district's math materials Everyday Math. Love the series!
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