A Week in Review
November 12 - 16
We packed a lot into a short week. I can tell that students are eagerly anticipating the upcoming break, they have been quite excited all week! They were great role models today with their Reading Buddies, Miss Muller's fabulous 2nd graders! Here's what we were up to this week!
Virtues Awards:
Jack M. has earned a Virtues Award for showing the virtues of SERVICE and RESPONSIBILITY! He willingly videotaped the Veterans' Day Assembly. Thank you Jack!
Khushaal K. has earned a Virtues Award for showing the virtues of RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY! Every day Khushaal is always prepared with his homework completed and during class time, he's on task and focused. Thank you Khushaal for being an excellent 5th grade leader!
Khushaal K. has earned a Virtues Award for showing the virtues of RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY! Every day Khushaal is always prepared with his homework completed and during class time, he's on task and focused. Thank you Khushaal for being an excellent 5th grade leader!
Students read an excerpt from the classic novel Old Yeller by Fred Gipson and worked in teams to use evidence from the text to answer higher level thinking questions. We examined Travis, the main character and his own inferences. We also discussed characters and how understanding a character's thoughts, words, and actions can help us comprehend a text more deeply.
Writing:
As we've dug deeper into the revision process with our own writing, our memoirs are progressing beautifully. We worked this week on combining sentences, fixing run-on sentences, and punctuating dialogue. I have also begun 1:1 conferencing with students about their writing. Students have volunteered for author's chair where they have shared portions of their memoirs in order to provide an example of a technique we've worked on or to receive feedback from their peers. I love the excitement and enthusiasm of the students as they eagerly volunteer for author's chair!
Math:
Our decimal unit has come to an end. We worked this week on two-step problems and ensuring that we're being careful mathematicians by reading the story problems twice, extracting the important information, and then completing all steps accurately to ensure that we're answering the story problem question. We also examined bar graphs, line graphs and continued analyzing discrete and continuous data.We took a practice test today and our homework over the weekend is to STUDY for the Unit 3 Math Test on Monday!
Social Studies:
We reviewed the routes of exploration to the new world this week and worked together to understand their motives and impact on the native people. We took our Chapter 5 Social Studies test today and the students were relieved it was open note. It was quite a challenging assessment and I am proud of the perseverance I saw in each student!
Science:
In our Landforms unit this week, we discussed and began creating a topographic map. Students worked with a foam model of a mountain. We traced each layer of the mountain to begin creating our topographic map. We discussed elevation and contour lines. We learned that contour lines connect points of equal elevation and the closer the contour lines, the steeper the slope.
We have another short week next week, only three days! It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already next week! I hope that you enjoy the weekend. For those of you leaving early, travel safely!
The Seahawks have a BYE-week, so I'll just say GO HUSKIES!
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Important Dates:
The Seahawks have a BYE-week, so I'll just say GO HUSKIES!
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Important Dates:
22-Nov - Thanksgiving - NO
SCHOOL
23-Nov - Thanksgiving break -
NO SCHOOL
7-Dec - Report Cards sent home with students
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