This week in reading, students worked on increasing their stamina in "Read to Self" and they also worked on making connections while reading. In writing, Mrs. Sorenson introduced the writing trait of voice and students began working on writing stories. In social studies, students have been working on parallel timelines and are still studying erosion in science. This week during word study, we studied the sound of "long e" and the different letter combinations or spelling patters that make that sound. In math, we learned about square numbers, square roots, factor strings and prime factorization.
In addition, we also started our MISIC testing on Thursday. So far, we have taken our tests for math and language. Tomorrow we will take our science test and on Thursday we will take our final test in reading. 5C students have been doing an outstanding job of taking their time and doing their best on these tests. They have also done a super job of being respectful when they finish and others are still testing. This was awesome to see, 5C! Thanks for being so thoughtful of your classmates!
You also may have noticed our class "Wordle" that I posted to our blog. A wordle is a tool used to generate "word clouds" from a text that you provide. The clouds give prominence to words that appear more frequently in the text. So, on Friday, I asked 5C students to reflect on the school year so far and how they are feeling about 5th grade. Some students wrote a single word, some students wrote a sentence and some students wrote multiple sentences. As you can see from our wordle, most of us are feeling pretty "awesome" about 5th grade and that is "awesome" to hear!
Have a great rest of the weekend! I'm looking forward to another awesome week of school!
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