Thursday, May 26th, 2016

One more sleep until Friday!

This morning we started out with music with Mrs. Jones.  We have been working on composer research and were practicing our presentations.

In Daily 5 we worked on sorting and recording our new words and also took some time to do a Blind Sort.  Students also finished their Writers' Notebook Self Assessments.  After another round of Daily 5 we settled in for snack and some reading of our book Pax.

We had some technology challenges in Inquiry time today but hope to have a good chunk of time tomorrow with the computers.  It will be our last big research time and any groups that have some more work to do will have it sent home to work on over the weekend. We will be doing a stop and reflect time tomorrow to guide this work.


This afternoon went by in a wink of an eye!

In math, we were "Showing What We Know" about fractions. Many of the questions really tested our "Mathematical Mindset." we had to use what we know and figure out a number of problems.  We also had to explain our thinking both with words and pictures.  Many of us persevered and worked through it. We will finish tomorrow hopefully before the assembly.

In our science inquiry, we looked at a rubric to do a self-assessment about how we work as scientists/engineers.  We are deciding if we are a novice or an expert. Mrs. Bowles will also be looking at our research work to see how we are doing.

In gym, we started outside learning about kickball then thunder struck! So we headed back into the school and played a wicked game of scooter hockey.

During our Twitter time we took on a math challenge. See below

We worked out the problem and Tweeted back to him. While we were looking at another tweet he sent us a Tweet back!  We were so excited and he is from Fresno, California.  It was really cool that we could communicate with someone so quickly so far away and he responded to us!

Things to Remember:

1.) Assembly tomorrow

2.)  Trout Release

3.)  Planting Note

A Message from the EcoTeam, regarding our Garden Bed Planting event:  Our special event on Saturday will need to be postponed due to rain. The forecast reads a very high Percent of Precipitation, and the rains are expected to go all weekend.  With that in mind, planting will be very difficult.

So, because of the rain,  we will be inviting students to help us plant, instead, on Wednesday at lunch time and after school.  If families and members of the community want to join us, they are welcome to stop by at 11:15, but they must let Ms. Goldberg know.

What problem will you be trying to solve when you build your prototype of your wind turbine?