Thursday, October 17, 2019

October 18, 2019


Over the past few weeks everyone completed the district reading assessment, the Benchmark Assessment System 2.  There are three parts to this assessment.  The first one involves oral reading.  This section assesses accuracy, self-correction and fluency.  Part two measures reading comprehension.  The final part is on writing about reading. I will be sharing the results of this assessment at the November Parent/Teacher conferences.

We continue our work on writing narratives.  This past week we practiced oral narratives, spent time on writing inspirations and continued to learn about a variety of narrative leads.  Next week, our focus will be on elaboration.
Students have finished creating SMART goals in all academic areas.  Transferable Skill 6 expects students to set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely goals.  They are now creating list poems of their goals.

On Thursday this week students in Chorus and 6th grade Band traveled to U32 for the day to participate in a day of music.  From the conversations when they returned, everyone clearly had a great day!

5th Grade News

Our unit on the Vermont state butterfly, the monarch, is coming to the end.  We tagged our last butterfly a little over a week ago.  On Tuesday afternoon, we put finishing touches on our Book Creator projects and Green Screen projects.

Last night several fifth graders represented our class at the school board meeting.  They shared much of our learning, including poetry/watercolors, our technology projects, samples of our journals and scientific sketching and photos of us tagging/releasing our butterflies.  They did an amazing job and I was so proud of them.  Everyone has done a tremendous job in this unit and I think the board members were impressed with their learning. Our work will be on display during the Open House next Wednesday.

In math class we continue our work with volume of a rectangular prism.  Volume is the amount of space inside a solid figure. Earlier in the unit students learned to find the volume of a solid figure by filling it with unit cubes.  We then learned another way to find volume.  We counted the cubes in the base layer and then added. For example, if there were 6 unit cubes in the base, and three layers you could add 6 + 6 + 6 to get the volume.  Next, we looked at multiplication to find volume.  We are now creating 3-d robots from cardboard rectangular prisms and then calculating each body part’s volume.  Hopefully, these will be finished by Open House.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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