Writing

This week students began revising their Native American Narratives. 
-We started by putting our writing into sections so that we could paragraph, as well as make revisions easier.
-We then talked about what makes a reader want to read your story, and had students come up with a list of ways authors hook the reader. Our writers then went about writing three new beginnings for their stories, then chose the best one. They are always amazed at how much better they get at writing better beginnings once they get to the last one.
-We also had lessons on the use of Figurative Language such as Similes, Metaphors and Personification, and how they make stories more descriptive.
-Then students helped create a list of other ways to convey emotion or action in a story by replacing the word SAID. We came up with enormous lists of other words to use, so they went into their stories and found spots where they could replace said with "juicier words".
-Next we will work on new endings, as well as learn to Rainbow Edit for convention and grammar errors. 

Check out some of our great work...

Fun with Symmetry

Check out the fun Symmetrical Skeletons students made in math class!

Bridges: Strategies for adding and subtracting fractions

Nettesheim Writing Competition

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLNdFRtpJPVMSNPCFKVVQjDfj?projector=1

Yahara Writing Contest

Here is a link to the information about the upcoming Yahara Writing contest.
Students may submit one piece of writing, due on January 10th.

Bridges Math- New Work Places

Ask your child about the new Work Places games we introduced this week. 

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Bridges Math: River Trail Plans

Students used the River Trail Plans to apply their learning about fractions on a number line, finding equivalent fractions and multiplying fractions by a whole number. 

Science

In science we are learning about variables. We are using a swinger experiment to help us practice using a standard for our experiment and to help us test changing the variable in an experiment. 

Math Games

Want to work on your math facts? Here are a couple of games online that could help practice both multiplication and division, as well as a game on finding equivalent fractions.

In these games you can set the numbers you'd like to work on your multiplication or divisiom facts. 

http://www.mensaforkids.org/play/games/meteor-multiplication/ 

http://www.mensaforkids.org/play/games/demolition-division/

Practice equivalent Fractions

http://www.mensaforkids.org/play/games/ratio-blaster/

https://www.mathplayground.com/hundreds_chart_patterns.html

This one will help with making expressions/equations, and with games like Group It!

https://www.mathplayground.com/make_a_number.html

Order of operations

https://www.mathplayground.com/pemdas_exhibit.html

Brain exercises

Got some time on your hands? Is it indoor recess? Want to exercise your brain? Try these.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/braingames/mousetrap/mousetrapAS2.htm

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/braingames/battleship/battleship.htm

https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/memory_games/memory_games_puzzle_shuffle.html

https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/memory_games/memory_games_simon.html

http://www.mensaforkids.org/play/games/word-frog/

https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/flash/games/level3/Roving_On_Mars.html



These games are not here to be played during work time, or to increase your screen time, but to give your brain some exercise during times like indoor recess, or free time.

Making Inferences and Deciding Which Text

This week we will be working with two texts: "Tell Us a Tale Hans!" and "Once Upon a Time". Both texts involve information about Hans Christian Andersen. We will continue our work with making inferences and move on to some work deciding which text to refer to when looking for information. We began today by studying this image and making inferences based on the pictures. The students came up with so many great ideas! They used our sentence frame "I can infer_________ because _________ in their conversation and were so thoughtful in their ideas. Some things we heard:

 "I can infer that their family doesn't have very much money because the paint is coming off of the walls and there are patches on their clothing."
"I disagree that they are poor, because they have multiple books and books used to cost a lot of money."
"I can infer that it is winter, because they are huddled around the fire, with warm clothes on, drinking tea. I usually drink my tea warm, so I think theirs is probably warm too."
"I agree with that because I can see a tiny sliver next to the fire place that looks like a window with snow in it."
"I can infer that they love to read, because they have a lot of books and they look happy reading them together."

Advanced Learning

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Comparta sus ideas sobre cómo podemos fortalecer los servicios y apoyos para todos los estudiantes
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Madison Se ofrecerá cuidado infantil para niños de 4 a 12 años de edad, cena y servicio de
interpretación a español y hmong.

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Social Studies: Native Americans of the Americas

In Social Studies we read about the early Native American Tribes of North America. How scientists believe the first peoples on the American continent came across the land bridge that is now the Bering Strait, and over the course of thousands of years, settled the many environments of North and South America. We also read about those different environments and how the different tribes that formed learned to adapt. We spent days reading and writing and drawing about the homes and artifacts of tribes stretching from Alaska, the Inuits, across the middle of the Great Plains, where the Sioux lived, to the Woodland Indians of the east, such as the Algonquins, to those like the Hopi who lived in the dry environments of the southwest.

Then on Tuesday 5th graders spent hours designing and building Native American homes in a hands-on project. We teachers had been saving up recyclable materials, plus other materials such as straws, sticks, toothpicks, cloth, paper, etc, etc, etc. Students were assigned a different house to build and needed to use the supplies along with tape and glue and paint, to create their homes, plus surroundings if time. Boy did they work hard!! Such great ideas, amazing teamwork, and final products. Check them out in the case outside room 120, and here are a few pics.

Reading RL 5.1 Quote accurately when making inferences

This week we have been doing a shared read of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Shared reading is where every child has the same opportunity to read a grade level text, regardless of their reading level. This is because the teacher reads the text, but each child has a copy in front of them to follow along. Our focus while reading Sadako has been on writing responses to reading in our reading journals.  In our response journals we ask students:

• What can I infer from the text that is not explicitly told. 
• What part of the text made me think this or supports my thinking (this is that quoting accurately part we are working on!)

Our notebook responses look like this:

As a celebration of our completion of the book, we learned how to make paper cranes! Can we make it to 1,000???