Thank you for your generous gifts to our families in need. More toys and clothes came in today. I know that the families we are helping are going to be so thankful! All donations are due by December 11.
Dates to remember:
Tonight - McTeacher night at the Granger McDonald's restaurant. Do you want fries with that? This is a fundraiser as well as a fun night. McDonald's donates part of the money spent tonight back to the school.
Next Wednesday, December 10 - Dare Graduation! Our 5th grade will graduate from drug resistance classes. The graduation will be from 9:00-10:00 in the school cafeteria.
Language Arts
Today we wrote about what we would do on a snowy day. This writing will be displayed in our ELA soon. We read with our reading buddies today. We also did Language Arts Centers. We did some word work with dictionaries and prefixes, wrote about an inspiring person, had some independent reading practice and met in small groups to read leveled readers. In small groups we discussed biographies, the stories, and what the author's purpose was in writing the story. If a student didn't finish his center paper, it is homework!
Math
Today we worked on converting fractions to decimals. To help us we used fraction sticks. We also reviewed measurements and worked on various skills in our math boxes. Study link 5.6 was assigned.
Science
It was great to work with Mrs Suddarth's class today. We reviewed what we knew about electricity. We then took things one step further. We built a series circuit today that used two light bulbs. The lights were very weak so we added another battery. That made the lights brighter. Tomorrow students will get the notes for the entire unit. Some of the things that are on the notes we won't have covered yet. The final test for electricity will be on or about December 16.
Thanks for sharing your kids with me.
