A Week in Review
February 11 - 15
We had a fabulous week in Room 210! A math test, a Valentine's Day celebration, and watching our completed Reading Buddies video were some of the highlights! Here is a recap of our week:
Kate O. has earned a Virtues Award for showing the virtues of kindness and helpfulness. Kate is a good friend to others and she is always willing to help out whenever a need arises! Thank you Kate!
Matthew C. has earned a Virtues Award for showing the virtues of diligence and respect. Matthew is always respectful and always completes his assignments with quality work!
Literacy:
We read Lafff from Best Shorts by Lensey Nameioka in our Journeys textbook. Our target skill was story structure and our target strategy was infer/predict. We analyzed the story elements and used the "Elements of Thought" to discuss point-of-view and deeply analyzed the multiple conflicts in the story. It was a great practice as we work towards our critical thinking school wide goals.
Unit 4 Circles, Polygons and Angles has come to an end! We took our end-of-unit assessment on Tuesday. Mrs. Nhan was in on Wednesday to administer the Senteo Clicker pre-test for next unit, Unit 7: Multiplication and Division with Whole Numbers and Decimals. We will start that unit after the break.
Social Studies:
After creating the setting for our Story Path journey into colonial Boston, we began working together in our "families". Students were placed into groups of four and began building their family's life, from choosing a business, a family name, and their role in the family (mom, sister, uncle). The students are so excited and engaged in this Social Studies unit!
Science
Students worked on the "Saturation Puzzle" where they were given a mystery chemical and challenged to formulate a plan to figure out what the chemical was.
Health:
Nurse Daphne was a guest teacher in our room this week. We combined our class with Ms. Keenan's while Nurse Daphne taught our final Health lesson, HIV/AIDS. Her lesson focused on awareness, education, and terminology. The students were attentive and asked really good questions.
Valentine's Day:
A special thanks to Karen R. (Rose) and Gina M. (Katie) for the lovely Valentine's Day Tea they worked so hard to put together for our students! In keeping with our Colonial Boston theme, all 5th grade classrooms decided to celebrate Valentine's Day with tea party. From the themed food to the decorations, the students enjoyed themselves. It was the perfect way to relax after our busy week of learning! Also, thank you to Karyn (Kate) and Kristen (Zach) for helping out, too.
Reading Buddies:
For the past few months, we've been working on a poetry project with our Reading Buddies. Today, we got to see the final product!! Students took a stanza from the poem, "Snowmen All Year" by Caralyn Buehner and together with their reading buddy and using the Pixie software, created a scene depicting their line. The buddy pairs memorized their lines and were filmed in front of the green screen reciting it. This project allowed us to integrate technology into our Literacy lessons as students modeled fluency and expression for their 2nd grade buddies. Students also used the visualizing strategy as they took a picture from their mind and created it for everyone to see. This project would not have been possible without our amazing and talented technology teacher, Ms. Benay. Thank you Benay for all that you do to make Medina a unique and special place to learn and grow.
Thank you for another great week of learning! Enjoy your Mid-Winter break, may the week off from school offer you and your family relaxation and rejuvenation.
Happy Friday,
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Upcoming Events:
Social Studies:
After creating the setting for our Story Path journey into colonial Boston, we began working together in our "families". Students were placed into groups of four and began building their family's life, from choosing a business, a family name, and their role in the family (mom, sister, uncle). The students are so excited and engaged in this Social Studies unit!
Science
Students worked on the "Saturation Puzzle" where they were given a mystery chemical and challenged to formulate a plan to figure out what the chemical was.
Health:
Nurse Daphne was a guest teacher in our room this week. We combined our class with Ms. Keenan's while Nurse Daphne taught our final Health lesson, HIV/AIDS. Her lesson focused on awareness, education, and terminology. The students were attentive and asked really good questions.
Valentine's Day:
A special thanks to Karen R. (Rose) and Gina M. (Katie) for the lovely Valentine's Day Tea they worked so hard to put together for our students! In keeping with our Colonial Boston theme, all 5th grade classrooms decided to celebrate Valentine's Day with tea party. From the themed food to the decorations, the students enjoyed themselves. It was the perfect way to relax after our busy week of learning! Also, thank you to Karyn (Kate) and Kristen (Zach) for helping out, too.
Reading Buddies:For the past few months, we've been working on a poetry project with our Reading Buddies. Today, we got to see the final product!! Students took a stanza from the poem, "Snowmen All Year" by Caralyn Buehner and together with their reading buddy and using the Pixie software, created a scene depicting their line. The buddy pairs memorized their lines and were filmed in front of the green screen reciting it. This project allowed us to integrate technology into our Literacy lessons as students modeled fluency and expression for their 2nd grade buddies. Students also used the visualizing strategy as they took a picture from their mind and created it for everyone to see. This project would not have been possible without our amazing and talented technology teacher, Ms. Benay. Thank you Benay for all that you do to make Medina a unique and special place to learn and grow.
Thank you for another great week of learning! Enjoy your Mid-Winter break, may the week off from school offer you and your family relaxation and rejuvenation.
Happy Friday,
~Mrs. Hatlestad
Upcoming Events:
01-March - Spelling Club
begins
07 March - Final Heritage Book Due (We'll have more guidelines on this the week after break, stay tuned!)
15 March - No School
28 March - Heritage Project Cultural Fair Exhibit & Potluck (6:00pm-8:30pm)
25-30 March - Missoula Children's Theater
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