Flexibility

We worked at teaching our Student Teacher, Ms. Bonk, flexibility this week. With two assemblies and changes to our schedule it was a crazy week!

Today we had a pop quiz on Long Division so that I could see where were were as a class. I am SO pleased. The average was a 95%!!! That is amazing. We will continue long division next week with a study of averages, three digit division with remainders, and word problems. There will be a unit test on Friday.

We continued our study of Feature Articles this week with a look at more of the characteristics they have: facts, opinions, voice, and angles. Next week we will be taking a look at story and then reading many more articles. We will also be getting back into the swing of writing notebook entries.

Reading Workshop this week concluded our study of Inferring. We are great at inferring in all forms! Written text, spoken words, pictures, etc. Next week we will begin our study of Summary. We will begin my summarizing comics. Ms. Bonk and I will be alternating days of teaching during Reading Workshop. We will also continue our book groups.

Social Studies has taken a close look at Colonial New York. That is right, we are now New Netherlands and will soon be New York. We will be looking at Government and Life in a Colony before we review the important information we have learned over the past two weeks with a review Wednesday and test on Thursday. Ms. Bonk will be taking over The American Revolution the following week!

This week we video conferenced with Mr. Reiley's 6th grade (4th period) and saw the mummification of a chicken! Although we had technical difficulty, we had a great time. Next week we will watch their ceremony as they prepare their chickens for their final resting.

The choir and orchestra concerts were fantastic. I am so impressed!!

A big thank you to the PTA for our new technology. We now have and ELMO in our room at all times!! YIPPIE!

Have a fantastic weekend!