Happy Friday Room 18 Families!
We had so much fun seeing many of you at the parade today! Don’t forget to join us this evening for the Pumpkin Walk from 4:30-8:30!
📚ELA: Students continued to identify character traits this week. We analyzed two new excerpts from the story As Brave As You, and the students continued to practice making inferences using context clues and relevant details. This week, we wrote a paragraph on their opinion about video games! Next week, they will choose one of the paragraphs they wrote over the last two weeks, and they will turn it into a 5 paragraph essay.
October Book Report (due October 30): Students should now have a book that is at/around their Lexile level for their October book report project. They are reading this and completing the book report at home.
Graphic organizers for every choice on the board are available on the Google Classroom. This is required for students to complete their project.
**If your student needs me to make a copy of this for them, they just need to ask!**
🌏Social Studies:
-Students took the full 50 states & capitals test on Thursday, October 22. We began our Native American unit, which we will continue over the upcoming weeks.
*Thank you to everyone for the postcards! Our map is filling up and we are almost there! Please continue to ask friends & family to send us postcards for The Great Postcard Race!
📏Math:
The students continued to work on Module 2: Multi-Digit Whole Number and Decimal Fraction Operations this week. We focused on converting units this week. Students are using their knowledge of place value, decimals, fractions, multiplication and division!
*Khan Academy math is directly related to the Eureka modules. This is assigned to students via GoogleClassroom and they can watch videos and do practice problems for every topic we cover (it is organized by unit and topic). *****This is a fantastic resource for students!!******
🧪Science
This week, we observed the results of our experiment that tested what would happen to seeds grown in the dark. We were pretty surprised to see that the seeds actually did grow in the dark! To further our investigation, we switched the conditions of each plant and look forward to seeing if anything will change. We also did a plant simulation experiment to see how water, soil, and CO2 levels effect plant growth.
This Week’s Assessments:
-Spelling quiz
-50 states & capitals quiz
Announcements:
-Please read this week’s Farnham Flash
-Next Friday 10/30 is Orange & Black dress day
Science Camp
Paperwork for science camp was sent home in Thursday folders last week! Please make sure you check through this. The paperwork is due on Friday, November 6th.
🌀🧦SILLY SOCKS FOR SCIENCE CAMP🌀🧦 We will be selling silly socks to raise money to ensure that all students are able to attend science camp this year. Socks are $5 and will be sold after school by the flagpole October 14-30th (Monday, Wednesday & Friday), as well as at the Pumpkin Walk. Thank you for supporting our fifth grade class!!