Friday, February 1, 2013

5V News

We are learning about:
  • Fractions, decimals, percents
  • Early explorers
  • Nonfiction feature articles
Some activities we did this week:
  • Converted between mixed numbers and improper fractions
  • Converted between fractions, decimals and percents
  • Played Frac-tac-toe
  • Ate homemade pie as a fraction lesson
  • Explored text features in feature articles
  • Practiced activating our schemas using text features
  • Predicted big ideas of feature articles before we read
  • Began listening to Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen during read aloud
  • Read about why Europeans explorers wanted to explore
  • Made a mystery chat video for a class that lives on the Eastern side of the Prime Meridian
  • Created a page in our altered books about where we think we will be in ten years
  • Blogged about our week in 5V
 Notes and reminders:
  • Students may choose to bring in Valentines for classmates on Thursday, February 14th.  If they choose to, they should be sure to bring one in for everyone in the class.
  • Report cards go home today
  • 5th grade vs faculty basketball game has been rescheduled for March 12th 

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