Good Friday!

We had quite a busy Friday today! We continued to work to develop our procedures for math workshop and we had our First Friday celebration where students had to work as a team to complete a variety of activities. Check out the pictures below.

The Operation

Today students were introduced to our workshop structure for math. We talked about the expectations for the whole time and we are ready to start our workshop on Monday! I was also super excited about the students that are using their understanding of organizing groups to create a book club and a classroom newpaper!

Every Day I Write the Book

Students were introduced today to the first element of Writer's Workshop - Free Writing. For many students, this is the first time that they were allowed to write anything they like, including comic books! They were so excited and it was great to see some students that have in the past not liked writing become successful writers during this time. Here are some pictures!

Brain Stew

What a great day! We began to work on our understanding of number systems in math. We also continued to work on developing our understanding of inquiry and the processes and procedures used by scientists to perform and record information during experimentation.

Here are some great pictures from our work today!

Monday, Monday

It's hard to believe that we started week 2 today! Students have been working hard to establish our classroom agreements. We have settled upon the agreements listed below. We also discussed logical consequences and the goal of any consequence being that students need to get back to work.

Here Comes the Sun!

Wow! One week down. It's hard to believe that we are finished with the first week of 5th grade! Today we worked on small group agreements, math problem solving, and we finally got an outside recess! Students also got to give me some advice about what they would like to do next week, and they did such a good job that we will be able to do a lot of the things they asked to do!

 Check out these pictures!

Parents - DON'T FORGET YOUR HOMEWORK! 

Rock the Boat

One of my favorite activities of the year is creating foil boats to hold penny passengers! Students work together to build boats out of foil and we test each boat to see which one can hold the most pennies without sinking. Here are some pictures.