A great big welcome to our new students!!
This morning in Language Arts we questioned each other about the vacation and then wrote about it for a timed 10 minutes. Grammar was a slick review. It took us a while to get our brains warmed up! The newest concepts of conjunction and interjection are coming along.
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT STUDENTS READ FOR 30 MINUTES EACH DAY OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL. STUDENTS SHOULD COME TO READING CLASS WITH A BOOK OF THEIR CHOICE. We will be starting the book The Great Brain, by John D. Fitzgerald. It is important that students read for understanding. There are lots of new vocabulary words and so much humor in the story snippets of this book. They will love it.
MATH HOMEWORK IS EXERCISE #1 AND A HAND TRACING ON GRID PAPER TO FIND AREA OF RECTANGLES AND SQUARES. Today we shared three or four different ways to find area. Students used real mosaic tiles to create shapes and determine their area. Please remind your student that area is written in square units! Please encourage your child to estimate the area of the carpet, the yard, the bedroom floor, the kitchen table, etc.
For History, we watched a five minute video on the pioneers. We then brainstormed everything we know about them and wrote several questions. We searched for main ideas, dates, events, and people as we began the chapter of "Moving to Zion". Students will be divided into trail teams tomorrow. They will be completing assignments to get them to their various destinations: Oregon, California, and Utah. They will be working on multiple intelligence and bloom's activities about settling Utah during the next 3-4 weeks.
Fifth Graders brainstormed many "How-to" ideas and began organizing one into step-by-step instructions. This is a fun activity, as the students must be very exact about how a skill is learned or performed. They will have two weeks to complete, edit, and publish their works. Thereafter, we will have "Live" performances of the skill.
Great day. Transitions are difficult at best. MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS GET TO BED EARLY-ISH! ALSO, PLEASE SEND A COUPLE OF MORE SNACKS WITH THEM, IN CASE THEY GET HUNGRY IN THE EARLY AFTERNOONS.
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