Welcome to our classroom page!
Here you can learn a little more about how our class is run on a daily basis. Our Schedule will let you see how and where our time is spent throughout the day. Students, up for a challenge? Check out our Young Einsteins Club and read about how "Karate Math" works in 5th grade!
2014-2015 Daily Instructional Schedule:
Weekly Activity Schedule:
Young Einsteins Club
The Young Einstein's Club was adapted from Ms. Renz's Mastery Club and is a club for students wishing to be challenged and rise "above and beyond" the normal classroom expectations. To become a member of the club, research a topic below and tell Mrs. Elliott the challenge number and the answer before school, during recess, or while waiting to be dismissed at the end of the day. (NOT during class time!) You can become a 1 star member, all the way up to a 100 star member. Once you have achieved 20 stars, Bronze Member status, you will be added to the Young Einsteins Club Hall of Fame, which will remain on my classroom wall until I retire from teaching one day (a LONG way from now!)
Are you up for the challenge? Check out the current list here:
Young Einsteins Club
Karate Math
Karate Math is a program that I implemented in Math my first year of teaching. Noticing that many students still struggled recalling their basic multiplication facts in 4th grade, but lacked the motivation to learn them, and as a teacher knowing how important basic fact recall is to successfully mastering more advanced mathematical concepts, I altered and implemented Karate Math. The concept of Karate Math is very simple and familiar; students take a basic timed test. If they pass, they move on to the next fact set, if they don't, they keep working on the same fact family until they do pass. That's where the similarities in Karate Math and other timed-test programs end.
Check out more about Karate Math here:
Karate Math
The Young Einstein's Club was adapted from Ms. Renz's Mastery Club and is a club for students wishing to be challenged and rise "above and beyond" the normal classroom expectations. To become a member of the club, research a topic below and tell Mrs. Elliott the challenge number and the answer before school, during recess, or while waiting to be dismissed at the end of the day. (NOT during class time!) You can become a 1 star member, all the way up to a 100 star member. Once you have achieved 20 stars, Bronze Member status, you will be added to the Young Einsteins Club Hall of Fame, which will remain on my classroom wall until I retire from teaching one day (a LONG way from now!)
Are you up for the challenge? Check out the current list here:
Young Einsteins Club
Karate Math
Karate Math is a program that I implemented in Math my first year of teaching. Noticing that many students still struggled recalling their basic multiplication facts in 4th grade, but lacked the motivation to learn them, and as a teacher knowing how important basic fact recall is to successfully mastering more advanced mathematical concepts, I altered and implemented Karate Math. The concept of Karate Math is very simple and familiar; students take a basic timed test. If they pass, they move on to the next fact set, if they don't, they keep working on the same fact family until they do pass. That's where the similarities in Karate Math and other timed-test programs end.
Check out more about Karate Math here:
Karate Math
