If your child has exercise-induced asthma AND they have an inhaler at school, please remind them to visit the health office BEFORE they go to gym this week and the next (since students will be practicing for and running the mile). If your child does not have an inhaler at school, you should consider giving them their asthma medicine before they go to school. Please call 204-3304 if you have any questions. Thanks! -Nurse Lovell & Terri (nurse assistant)
Friday, April 20, 2018
Westward Expansion/Pioneer Museum
Our writing this unit is non-fiction writing around topics of Westward Expansion/Pioneers. As we do the Pioneer Project students learn a TON of information about America and how it expanded westward. We will use this information, as well as use research to write a five paragraph piece on a single topic related to westward expansion. Ask your child what their topic is.
This week students received their topic, and began reading books and online sources about the topic. Then we began taking notes on the topic using a card system that works really great for allowing kids to take notes and write sentences while avoiding copying/plagiarizing the sources they've read. Ask your child about the process, and how Sugar likes to use the word "aaaannnnnd".
As students are working on this at school they need to be thinking about how they will be presenting this information. We will have a Historical Museum on May 23, at 8:15 for the other fifth grade classes, and for parents at 1:30. Put the date in your calendars, students LOVE an audience!
HOW WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Students will need to complete some or most of their museum project at home. The research and writing will happen at school, but the presentation needs to be done at home. Students have already been introduced to how this will work, and also been given a list of ideas on how they could present their information. Here are some ideas:
Technology: Prezi, slide show, video, stop animation, scratch, etc.
Poster: including pictures, text, titles, captions, maps, etc.
Diorama/3D model/hands on display: This is pretty open, and specific to topic
Other: Dress up to present, play an instrument or perform, serve food related to topic, etc.
The sky is the limit. Ask if you have questions or need help. The final products are due at school on Monday, May 21st.
This week students received their topic, and began reading books and online sources about the topic. Then we began taking notes on the topic using a card system that works really great for allowing kids to take notes and write sentences while avoiding copying/plagiarizing the sources they've read. Ask your child about the process, and how Sugar likes to use the word "aaaannnnnd".
As students are working on this at school they need to be thinking about how they will be presenting this information. We will have a Historical Museum on May 23, at 8:15 for the other fifth grade classes, and for parents at 1:30. Put the date in your calendars, students LOVE an audience!
HOW WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Students will need to complete some or most of their museum project at home. The research and writing will happen at school, but the presentation needs to be done at home. Students have already been introduced to how this will work, and also been given a list of ideas on how they could present their information. Here are some ideas:
Technology: Prezi, slide show, video, stop animation, scratch, etc.
Poster: including pictures, text, titles, captions, maps, etc.
Diorama/3D model/hands on display: This is pretty open, and specific to topic
Other: Dress up to present, play an instrument or perform, serve food related to topic, etc.
The sky is the limit. Ask if you have questions or need help. The final products are due at school on Monday, May 21st.
Change in start times for middle schools.
Many parents had questions about the possible change times to late start for middle schools. Here is a link to the school districts information on the possible changes in start times.
Start Time Information
Start Time Information
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Pioneer Project Action
This week students began on the trail. First they wrote their first diary entry explaining who they were, and where they came from, as well as why they had decided to travel west to Oregon on the Hacker Trail. Here are some great examples:
Then they had to make a decision at Prairie Wells that would affect their entire wagon train.
Here's the situation, and some hard working pioneers.
Here's the situation, and some hard working pioneers.
Best Quote by wagon train member: "We're not murderers, we're just trying to get water!" Luis B.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Converting Measurements
5 MD. 1
Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
This week we have been working on converting measurements in math class. Students will be converting length, weight/mass, and liquid capacity.
Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
This week we have been working on converting measurements in math class. Students will be converting length, weight/mass, and liquid capacity.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Challenge Projects
One way students can work to increase their movement on the Hacker Trail is by doing Challenge Projects. Challenge Projects are done only outside of school, and are about any Pioneer topic (not related to their in class topic). They can be arts, crafts, writing, cooking, etc. Students complete them at home, then bring in the project to share with the classroom. The points earned will help them be more successful on the trail. Here is some more info....
The fun has begun! Pioneer Project
The PIONEER PROJECT has begun! This is going to be a month long unit that simulates the westward expansion of the US via the wagon train experience. Last students found out about the project, saw their wagon train members, and chose their pioneer identities. Ask your child who he/she is, how many children they have and more information they discovered about their character today. This week will also include learning more about Manifest Destiny (the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable), travel by wagon, and pioneer life.
This week they will apply this new knowledge by making supply lists, writing diary entries and making trail decisions. This project will include much writing, much luck and chance (just like on the trail), and other projects students will complete both at school and at home. The points they earn doing this work will allow their wagon train to move along the trail, hopefully arriving safely in Hacker's Valley in the end. Keep an eye out here on the blog for more information.
This week they will apply this new knowledge by making supply lists, writing diary entries and making trail decisions. This project will include much writing, much luck and chance (just like on the trail), and other projects students will complete both at school and at home. The points they earn doing this work will allow their wagon train to move along the trail, hopefully arriving safely in Hacker's Valley in the end. Keep an eye out here on the blog for more information.
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