Happy Halloween!!
Students were to hand in their Center activities from the last set. There are some students who will be working on getting their work completed during recess and noon hour. Please remember to check with your child and ensure their homework gets completed. We can't go on in the classroom when students aren't completed up to the assigned portion. Students who have incomplete work will fall behind their classmates.

Students will bring home their spelling tests and math tests for parent signatures on Monday.

We worked on our puppet stories today. Students are having a great time trying to create a story line with such unique characters.

Have a safe Halloween!

Study hard tonight Grade 5! The Super Spelling test and math test's are tomorrow.

Students completed day 3 of centers. We also reviewed for the math test. Students were put into small groups and will begin a writing activity tomorrow focusing on using dialogue and speaker tags in writing. Students created a variety of unique and creative paperbag puppets that will now become the characters in their stories. I am excited to see how the creative juices will flow within the walls of Room 20!!

I will be at a writing conference tomorrow and will also be absent on Wednesday. There will not be any updates listed on the blog until Thursday.

See you Thursday Grade 5!

A big thanks to all of the "Popcorn Helpers" yesterday. They put in a great deal of time and work to pop all that popcorn! Thank you so much!!

The morning began with day 2 of Centers. We continued talking about paragraph structure and concluding sentences. We ended the morning by reading a chapter of our classroom novel, "Loser."

Students are working on a review of Unit 2 in Math (pg 30 and 31). The math test has been moved to Tuesday, October 28.

To end the day, students used their creativity to design a hand pupppet. We will be using these puppets next week!!

Have a good weekend!!

*Book 'N It To A Billion total this week: 812,909
Total: 7,592,768

Our classroom pumpkins look great! Great job!!

We began the day with a wonderful assembly showcasing many talents within our school.

Students completed day 1 of their center activities. Every teacher table group has part of an assignment to complete for homework.

Students worked in partners in math for p.28 (5-9). They are working on creating equations and solving for a variety of multiplication and division problems.

Students wrote the unit 1 Social test for the last hour of the day.

*Please encourage your child to practice their multiplication table!! Multiplication Mania has begun!!

Students worked on paragraph structure with small groups this morning. Students were given an envelope with sentences and their job was the create a paragraph by putting the sentences in an order of their choice.

Students completed Lesson 5 spelling test today. Great job! Lesson 6 pre-test will comprise of words selected from lessons 1-5.

In math, we discuess solving equations using addition and subtraction. We began working with solving equations using multiplication and division. Students were assigned p.27 1-4 (a-d in each question).

We will be carving pumpkins tomorrow! Please send any pumpkin carving tools to school for your child to use.

Students worked on their Newspaper Article reviews. These are due on Monday if students did not get them completed.

We worked in small groups to discuss Order of Importance in paragraph writing.

In Math, we corrected our Computations Page from Centers. We also discussed p 24 from yesterday and worked in pairs to write equations and solve the problems on p 25 (3-7).

Book 'N It To A Billion total this week: 771,800.
Total seconds read: 6,779,859

Students finished Day 4 of Centers this morning. All activities are due for tomorrow.

Mr. Leidl took the class bowling this morning.

We began looking at how to solve expressions in math. Students were assigned p24 (1,2). We are working with solving expressions using addition and subtraction.

Students continued to work on their Survival Island. This was the last day of class time the students will be getting. Survival Island is due Monday, October 20. Students were also give the outline for the unit test in Social which will be on Wednesday, October 22.

* Don't forget to bring Book 'N It To A Billion totals.

Students completed Day 3 of this week's Center's this morning. Some groups have homework to complete the questions for "Don't Just Sit There, Get A Hobby."

We continued to tackle expressions and variables in math class. Students were assigned p 22 (1-6). Students are to come up with an expression, NOT solve the problem.

Remember to keep working on your Science and Social Studies projects!! Next week is a very busy week.

Welcome back after a long weekend of turkey eating and visiting!!

The students worked on the Survival Island assignment in Social Studies today. The creativity of all of the students is shining through!

Students also went bowling today. Some students have not brought their $5 so please do so as soon as possible.

Family Fun Night is quickly approaching. Part of our activity is selling popcorn. If anyone is interested in coming into school and helping to pop popcorn please let me know. I could sure use an extra set of hands!!

Last week, the class totalled their Book N' It to a Billion and reached 2,651,205 seconds. Some students forgot their totals on previous weeks so we added them into this past total.
Our new total is 6,008,059.
Great job guys and gals!! Our Construction wall is also building very quickly. Keep up the good work and keep on reading!!

I want to apologize for missing a post for yesterday.

Our Thursday looked like this...
Students completed Day 2 of Centers in Language Arts. Some groups have started the short story, "Don't Just Sit There, Get A Hobby."

Spelling Test lesson 5 was given. Please remind your children to study for the spelling tests.

The students were given their unit project in Social. The students are to design an island including 5 landforms that could provide them with the basic needs to survive. The project has a written component as well as a painted island. This is due Monday, October 20.

Friday...
Students receieved Lesson 5 pre-test and were assigned lesson activities. Lesson 5 spelling test is Monday, October 20.

Students also tackled a problem on their own today. The problem solving strategies we have focused on so far put the students to a challenge.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving. See you Tuesday!!

Today started out with the October school assembly.

We then started a new set of Centers, Day 1. Remember that if you don't get your work finished at your independent stations, that work is homework.

We reviewed the problem solving question that the students did yesterday with a partner.

Even though today was a short day in my classroom, the students worked very hard at getting their work done and staying on task.

Students completed their "My Special Memory" stories. The stories, along with a photograph, are in the hallway for all to read. Students did an excellent job describing their special memories.

Students also worked on reading and discussion questions for "How I Got My Dogsled."

We spent time focusing on topic sentences in paragraph writing and started to address coherence in paragraph writing.

In math, we corrected page 11 and 12. Students were given a problem to solve with their partner using the problem solving strategy of "Using or Looking for a Pattern."

We corrected "Where Is It?" in Social. The students worked to define landform definitions as well as began coloring and defining the landform examples.

* Sausage and Perogy lunch tomorrow. Don't forget your plate! The cost per student is $2.50.

Center activities were handed in today. Those students who are not done with be in Homework Club tomorrow at lunch time.
We worked on our Memory Stories in Language Arts and completed our Newspaper activities where the students created a new catchy title for an article that they chose.

Students continued to work on Destination Math in computers. Those students who have completed the assigned activities worked on their Science projects.

In math we reviewed the problem that the students did in groups on Friday. I am very proud of the students and their hard work with the many different problems and the different strategies we have focused on. Keep up the good work!!
Students were assigned pages 11 and 12 (2,3 a-e,4,5). This is homework if it is not done.

* Book Orders are due on Thursday, October 9.
** Early Dismissal - Thursday, October 9.
*** Spelling Test - Thursday, October 9.

Students completed Day 4 of Centers today. Groups are beginning the next story "How I Got My Dogsled." We are also continuing to work on our Memory stories.
Students were reminded that all center activities are due on Monday so any activities not completed will be homework for the weekend.

Students were introduced to the next problem solving strategy: Use or Look for a Pattern. We completed one problem together as a class and then split into 4 small groups to solve another problem.

We worked on coloring and labelling our world maps today. If students are not finished, this is homework for Monday. Some students began defining a number of different landform terms using their dictionaries.

Room 20 has a "Reading Wall Under Construction." Every time a student reads a chapter book, they will be adding another brick to our Reading Wall. Our goal is to build an entire wall!!

This week's Book 'N It To A Billion total: 1,040,694.
Our classroom Book 'N It To A Billion total: 3,356,854

Students were given their pre-test for Lesson 4 in Spelling. Lesson 4 Spelling test will be Thursday, October 9. Lesson 4 Spelling activity is also due that day.

Students were given back their Math tests today. Great job! The class average was 88%! Please sign the test and send it back to school tomorrow.

We corrected the assignment in Math from yesterday and discussed Patterning as a classs.

* Don't forget your Book N' It To A Billion seconds tomorrow!