5V News

It was great to see so many students and families at the 5th grade basketball game last night!  It was a lot of fun and I know all the students and teachers had a great time!

Curriculum topics:

• Volume
• Matter
• Reading nonfiction
• Writing nonfiction books

Some activities we did this week:

• Compared area and perimeter of different shapes 
• Created a foot, a square foot and a cubic foot 
• Used blocks to create rectangular prisms with different volumes 
• Calculated the volume of rectangular prisms with the formulas V= l*w*h and V= B*h
• Decided on our nonfiction book topics
• Wrote interesting and clear titles for our table of contents 
• Created a glossary and began researching for our books 
• Investigated how to separate solids
• Made a "Whatzit" mixture and discovered how it had properties of both liquids and solids
• Observed chemical changes with baking soda and vinegar
• Took our final matter quiz
• Practiced finding facts and opinions in reading
• Had a class discussion and debated whether statements were facts or opinions
• Continued our Genius Hour research and presentations 

Notes and reminders:

• No school on Friday, March 14th- teacher workshop day
• Parent conferences will be in April- I will post a sign up to the blog next week