Friday, September 25, 2020

Happy Friday,

We are the 'G.O.T.' Team.  Geese ( Mr. Smith, Otters, Mrs. Found, and Tetons, Mrs. Conley. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful week. The students have done an amazing job adjusting to all of the new schedules and routines. These cooler temperatures help to make the classroom temperatures quite comfortable, but I'd like a little more summer weather.

Thank you for sending us feedback on the surveys.  We are working to post a daily checklist of assignments that combine all three classes. WE look forward to seeing you online for OPEN HOUSE Wednesday, September 30 at 6:00.

Mrs. Found, Mr. Smith, and I will update this blog weekly and we'll send you the link to keep you updated on our classes. We will also try to include some pictures of the kids in action. 

Continue to scroll down the page for Mr. Smith's and Mrs. Found's class updates.

Language Arts with Mrs. Conley

* 3 notebooks will go back and forth daily.

* Students who attend school 4 days need to bring these notebooks home on Tuesday 

The students have set up yellow, one subject writing notebooks and black and white composition notebooks that will have their Daily Oral Language lessons in it. These notebooks need to travel back and forth to school with your children. Mrs. Found and I also share their readers notebooks.  The students have different reader's notebook colors, and they are bigger, 5 subject spiral notebooks.  

Daily Oral Language ( DOL) 

We are writing journal prompts in our yellow, one subject notebooks. Fifth graders are working on their writing stamina while we respond to daily prompts.  We are using onomatopoeia ( Bam!) and alliteration  (Morgan Mouse munched marshmallows merrily.) in our prompts. We share our prompts in class and online. 

The Thursday/Friday language arts lessons include poems. This week we shared a fun poem about a Backpack.

We created writing graffiti pages to help with the dreaded writer's block.  We also had fun writing 6 Word Memoirs.

Mrs. Found is teaching reading this year, but I ( Mrs. Conley) will also be helping the students select books, and I'll continue to give book talks and share what I am reading.  Everyone reads for the first 20 minutes of study hall. I am currently reading Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk.

Got Force is getting it done in math!!

Skills worked on this week:

Math Fact Practice

Geometry Terms

Perimeter

Quadrilaterals

Challenge

We like the kids to work on twenty min. of Tang challenge per day and we have added Ken Kens for this week and next.

Key Messages

Everybody can be good at Math!

It s not about speed it is about the effort and deep thinking!

Mistakes help you learn and grow!

Math is really fun and interesting!

Reading: We are reading aloud Be A Perfect Person in Just 3 days.  Here are some drawings the kids did of Dr. Silverfish.  Ask your child a little about the book.  Students are working on a reading goal for the year.  This week students were introduced to their reader's notebooks.  These will be used in both reading and language arts.

We have also been learning about our brains and how they work.  We have been discussing how things can be challenging but if we are persistent and don't give up we can achieve anything we put our minds to!  Ask them about the backwards brain bicycle.