Week of 12/3

Blog Authors: Sam Mullen and Josh Rohloff

Photographer: Lauren LaFleur

Another great week of 5DL! We played Trashketball, had a test, the houses got together to make holiday cards for soldiers and did a huge brain dump in literacy!

*Math:

• Played Trashketball to review for Unit 3
• Had our Unit 3 Post-Assessment
• Did a Math Reflection
• Had our Unit 4 Pre-Assessment

*Houses:

• Made holiday cards for the soldiers!
• Every one put there best effort into it!

*Science:

• Went to other 5th grade classes
• Learned about Homogenous and Heterogenous mixtures in Mrs. Craig’s class
• We did  experiments in Mrs. Pinsonnault class
• We learned about measurable and observable objects in Mrs. Wentworth’s Class
• We learned about the difference between physical and chemical changes class with Mrs. DeLello and Mrs. Loh. We also did an experiment involving dirty pennies and salt & vinegar.

*Literacy 

• Started our Non-Fiction Reading unit a week ago.
• Learned 3 different ways to take notes on Non-Fiction books.
• Did a brain dump about Current Events, World Changers/Improvers and Social/Emotional.
• Split off into partnerships to practice getting good solid questions.
• Everyone had awesome ideas and questions!

*Choose Love
In choose love we learned about gratitude and gratitude breaths

Choose love is a social/emotional curriculum that teaches how to have courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion

*Questions to Ask Your Child

• What topics did you decide to ask questions about in Literacy?
• Where are you in math?
• What topic in Literacy from the Brain Dump was your favorite?
• What are you learning in Choose Love?
• What is the C.A.L.M way to work out things?
• How do you like the way you do math?

*Important Info/Dates

• Early release 12/13
• Gingerbread house materials due 12/17
• Puberty 12/17-12/18