5V News

Parent conferences begin the second week of April!  Please use this link to sign up: SPRING CONFERENCES 2015

We are learning about:

• Fractions
• Reading fantasy books
• Properties of matter 

Some activities we did this week:

• Discovered the rule for finding equivalent fractions
• Played "Rolling, rolling, rolling" to practice finding equivalent fractions
• Conducted an investigation to prove that air takes up space
• Experimented to find which materials are denser than water
• Met with our fantasy reading groups
• Discussed how the "dragons" in our fantasy books are often metaphors for something else
• Mystery Skyped with a college class from Southern New Hampshire!
• Began practicing for the Smarter Balanced assessment 

Notes and reminders:

• Next week is Read Across America Week!  Monday is wear crazy socks, Tuesday is wear your favorite hat, Wednesday is wear mismatch clothes, Thursday is dress up as your favorite book character, Friday is drop everything and read day! 

Have a great weekend!

Parent Conferences

Parent conferences will begin the second week of April.  Please use this link: PARENT CONFERENCES to sign up for a conference time.  Thank you!

5V News

What's happening in 5V....

So this is what full week of school feels like!  We've been hard at work exploring properties of matter, using thinking stems to communicate our reading comprehension strategies and understanding the different properties of polygons.

Reading: Book clubs! Next week we will begin fantasy book clubs and students will expected to be reading at home (and at school) and coming to their book club meetings prepared to discuss the planned section of reading.

Blogging: It's time to raise the quality of our blogs!  Students will now have a blogging rubric to accompany their biweekly blog posts for homework.  We have spent a lot of time looking at the rubric and looking at several examples of student blogging so that students understand the expectations.  They should be filling out the rubric based on their blog post and both should be completed by the end of the week.

Math: We are finishing up geometry and we will start working on volume next week both in math and science.  After that will be fractions!

Smarter Balanced: Our Smarter Balanced testing begins mid-April with English Language Arts first and then Math.  This will be our first time taking the test and it will be a learning experience for everyone!  We will begin "practicing" soon so that students become familiar with test taking on the Chromebooks and how to manipulate the different screens of the test.

Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!