Standards of focus: Math: 5.NBT.5; Science 5-PS1-3
Last Week's MobyMax Math High Scorers!: Joe Mullins and Karalyne Swartz
This week is Red Ribbon Week! To celebrate being drug-free, our schedule of activities is as follows:
In Math on Monday, we continued our focus of multi-digit multiplication by reviewing 2x2-digit and 2x3-digit multiplication and taking notes over 3x3-digit and larger multiplication. We discussed how once you got the pattern of the order in which to multiply (we talked about how it's like a windshield wiper...up to the right and sweep to the left!) the only other hard part is to remember those zero place holders. But, as a reminder, we started calling our zero the "hero" because without him, we will always get our answers wrong, even if we multiply and add correctly!
In Science, we are still pluggin' away at physical properties of matter. Today we viewed a Mixtures & Solutions PowerPoint and completed our guided notes that go along with it. We discussed how solutions are really just special types of mixtures, where one of the substances dissolves into the other.
In Social Studies, we've been working on a CSI Investigation in History...the Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. We began this project on Thursday and worked with it on Friday as well. In our groups, we worked through our CSI case file and read background information on the colony of Roanoke, as well as read about many theories as to what happened to the colonists there. Today, we wrapped up our investigation and watched a really neat documentary from the History Channel that talked about many of the same pieces of evidence that we discussed. For homework, we had to write a case conclusion, discussing what WE thought really happened, using evidence and backing up our theories.
You can view the documentary in its entirety, titled America Unearthed: Mystery of Roanoke, by clicking the link.
On Tuesday in Math, we practiced our multi-digit multiplication one last time before taking our post-test over this standard by completing some Spider and Halloween themed task cards.
In Science, we completed a handout over mixtures, as we continue our focus of physical changes in matter.
In Social Studies, we began our chapter 6 guided notes, which had us looking at and focusing on three early American colonies: Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. We completed sensory figures for these colonies where, using a word bank, we summarized what we read about each colony using sentence stems and our senses.
Wednesday was a short day for us! We began the day with a "Trix Sticks" that got us fired up about being drug-free!
Then, in Math we completed our 5.NBT.5 post-test that we did really well on! We are now ready to begin 5.NBT.6, DIVISION!
In Science, we completed a handout over solutions, tying in the notes we completed on Monday.
In Social Studies, we completed our sensory figures by summarizing and using our senses pretending we were a Plymouth colonist.
On an unrelated note, Mrs. Elliott finished our class fingerprint plate today for the Fall Festival auction. It turned out really well!
On Tuesday in Math, we practiced our multi-digit multiplication one last time before taking our post-test over this standard by completing some Spider and Halloween themed task cards.
In Science, we completed a handout over mixtures, as we continue our focus of physical changes in matter.
In Social Studies, we began our chapter 6 guided notes, which had us looking at and focusing on three early American colonies: Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. We completed sensory figures for these colonies where, using a word bank, we summarized what we read about each colony using sentence stems and our senses.
Wednesday was a short day for us! We began the day with a "Trix Sticks" that got us fired up about being drug-free!
In Science, we completed a handout over solutions, tying in the notes we completed on Monday.
In Social Studies, we completed our sensory figures by summarizing and using our senses pretending we were a Plymouth colonist.
On an unrelated note, Mrs. Elliott finished our class fingerprint plate today for the Fall Festival auction. It turned out really well!
This is SO fitting because every time we take a walk with The Walking Classroom, Mrs. Elliott compares us to marching ants! :)
On Thursday in Math, we took our pre-test for 5.NBT.6, which focuses on long division. We also took notes over the steps and started small by focusing on dividing numbers with 1-digit divisors, which was a review from 4th grade.
In Science, we completed a test prep lesson over mixtures and solutions, requiring us to read a passage and complete a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two.
In Social Studies, we did another dice simulation, which we LOVE doing! Everyone's turns out differently and your "life" is in the chance of the die role. This time, since we are talking about early English settlements, our dice simulation was focused around Pilgrims. We had 5 places to go, beginning in England, as that's where the Pilgrims originated from in search of religious freedom:
On Thursday in Math, we took our pre-test for 5.NBT.6, which focuses on long division. We also took notes over the steps and started small by focusing on dividing numbers with 1-digit divisors, which was a review from 4th grade.
In Science, we completed a test prep lesson over mixtures and solutions, requiring us to read a passage and complete a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two.
In Social Studies, we did another dice simulation, which we LOVE doing! Everyone's turns out differently and your "life" is in the chance of the die role. This time, since we are talking about early English settlements, our dice simulation was focused around Pilgrims. We had 5 places to go, beginning in England, as that's where the Pilgrims originated from in search of religious freedom:
We LOVE these dice simulations and really get into them!
Each area has a table that goes with it that tells what the role of the dice means and indicates where to go next. A lot of use "made it" and were successful in creating a functioning, thriving colony. However, many of us died due to various reasons. After "making it", passing away, or 20 dice rolls, we then created Pilgrim Journal entries that elaborated on our journeys. Using our recording sheet of roles, we matched our journals up with what happened during the simulation, explaining how we made it during the harsh winters, our sail over on the Mayflower, or even how we passed away.
On Friday, we celebrated Halloween and Fall by having our annual Fall Party. We made slime, watched "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", an oldie-but-goody favorite of Mrs. Elliott's and may or may not have watched "The Giver", which Mrs. Dennis had read aloud to us earlier in the year.
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