- Now until October 30th- Book fair is happening at Long
- Monday and Wednesday, October 24th and 26th- Parent Teacher Conferences
- Thursday, October 27th- Cahokia Mounds Field Trip
- Sunday, October 30th- Trunk or Treat from 4-6 pm
- Monday, October 31st- Halloween Party 2-3 pm
- Monday, November 8th- NO SCHOOL
- Tuesday, November 9th- NO SCHOOL
Math: We are currently reviewing division. Chapter 3 covers division by single digit divisors and chapter 4 covers division by double-digit divisors. Continuing to review multiplication facts is important, especially if your child does not know his or her facts.
Writing: We finished up our personal narrative pieces and had our flashlight writing celebration on Tuesday! The students had fun reading each others narratives and writing compliments about what they liked about the different pieces. Check out pictures of the kids publishing their narratives and having their writing celebration.
We have started our informational unit now, and we start off by learning how to take notes and paraphrase when researching.
Reading: We have been focusing on finding the theme of fiction stories. In guided reading, the groups have been learning how to use text evidence to support the themes of the passages we are reading. Students are almost finished with their first book club book, and they will be selecting a new book soon. Ask your child about the book they read with their book club! Below are pictures of the book clubs.
Science: Science has been a lot of fun! We have starting learning about the water cycle. Students have been participating in hands on activities to learn about the different phases of the water cycle.
We made the five different layers of the atmosphere and learned about the density of different liquids at the same time!
We also showed that heat speeds up evaporation by putting water drops on paper towels. One paper towel was on top of a bag of hot water, and one paper towel was on top of a bag of cold water. Students discovered that the drop on top of the hot water disappeared much faster than the drop on top of the cold water.
To show condensation, we put hot water in a plastic cup and put another cup on top to act as a lid. The students noticed that the water vapor that was formed from the hot water evaporating cooled down when it reached the top of the cup and turned back into a liquid. Then, we repeated the experiment with ice on top to speed up the process of condensation. We also made a shaving cream cloud and added blue water until it got too heavy and rained blue rain drops!
Ability Awareness Day: 5th graders participated in ability awareness day today. We learned all about different disabilities, but most importantly we realized how much we all have in common with one another. A favorite today was meeting the CHAMPS service dogs!
