5V News

Thank you to all of the parents who were able to make it to Curriculum Night!  It was great to connect with so many of you.  For those of you who didn't make it or who would like to see the class video again, here it is:


We are learning about:

• Prime Factorization
• Blogging
• Gathering "seeds" in our writer's notebooks
• Monitoring thinking during our reading   

Some activities we did this week:

• Made factor trees to find the prime factorization of numbers
• Unsquared square numbers
• Made factor rainbows
• Discussed logical consequences for our classroom
• Made "reading salads" during reading- text + thinking = real reading
• Reviewed fix up strategies for reading
• Created timelines of important events in our life
• Searched for model blog posts on other class sites
• Explored how titles can bring more readers to blog posts
• Spent Friday morning inside doing team building challenges 

Notes and reminders:

• Unit one math test on Tuesday, October 1st
• NECAP testing begins Wednesday, October 2nd 
• No school on Monday, October 8th