April 29

The sixth grade is starting reports on animal adaptations. They also are doing a project on Roman gods.The fifth graders are still working on their Greek gods' reports.

The fifth grade class had their parent mass and breakfast today. Fifth and sixth grade are working on stories that should have 400 to 500 words. Hopefully, they will be interesting. We are singing and learning about African music in music class.

April 2, 2014
We have a huge school of fish outside our classroom door for grade 5 and another school of fish hanging on the 6th grade door showing all of our lenten good deeds.  We have another few weeks of Lent, so continue doing your good deeds daily. (We won't stop just because Easter comes later this month.)

Grade 5 learned about dividing fractions, and we used manipulatives to practice.  Then we learned that we can "flip and multiply" to get the answer.  We practiced on IXL.

Our 5/6 Learning Community just finished our read aloud,"A Long Way from Chicago" today.  We had groups work on a story map showing the various story elements including characters, setting, conflict, plot, climax and resolution.  It was impressive seeing the groups interact and work so well together!

It was a great day!
Mrs. Caporale and Mrs. Eicher

Today we started hieroglyphic cartouches in art. We are writing our names in hieroglyphs. In social studies the 6th graders learned about the Roman government and the 5th graders learned about Greek gods and goddesses. In science the 5th graders are drawing a diagram of the digestive system.

Have a nice 4 day weekend.   

March 21, 2014

We had our classroom Modern Woodman Speech Contest this week.  Congratulations to Hunter, Brandon, Molly, and Mason who will advance to the school competition on Monday.  Be sure to practice your speech this weekend. 

Today was the first full day of spring!  Get out and enjoy the warmer weather this weekend.