COMING SOON! Next week students will be assigned an independent book project. It is called the 12 of 18. All students were to complete reading a book by the second week of October to use for this independent book project. More coming next week! Stay tuned!
Everyone is working very hard on the island project. Very impressive! The most important bit of advice is for students to follow the rubric. I have extra copies of the assignment and rubric, if needed. Most students have completed defining the 29 terms, which are due October 11th, and are now designing their islands. The project is due October 21st. The creative juices are flowing.
In writing, students took a look at their narrative pre-assessment score so they could see where to specifically improve their writing. This week we focused on punctuating dialogue and adding interesting language. A couple of areas that are challenging for students in the use of transition phrases to show the passage of time and elaboration. Students are learning how to stretch out a small moment.
In grade 6 math, we are working on area and perimeter of rectangles and of triangles. I am looking forward to seeing the designs for the Mr. Trottle's dog fence. We are also continuing our work on factors, multiples, multiplication and division.
If you have questions about grade 5 math, please contact your child's teacher or visit that teacher's blog.
We finished our wonderful read aloud, Harris and Me. The last chapter is always hard for me to read aloud, as I can feel the tears coming. An incredible book about a young boy, who finally learned what it means to have a place to call "home".
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Sunrise/Sunset
Each Wednesday we track the time of the sunrise and the sunset in East Montpelier. As you can see from the photos, the yellow, or daylight, is decreasing and the black, the darkness, is increasing. We began tracking the sunrise/sunset times on September 7th. Since then, we have lost 1 hour and 27 minutes of daylight. Yikes!
Wondrous Words
Students looked the books they were reading to find new and interesting words. We gave them a value. Were the words worth 25 cents, 50 cents or $1.00? We discussed how important it is to use interesting language in your writing to keep the reader reading. After all, words are free. No one owns them, so we can use them!
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