Christmas Picture

Singing carols

Class Party group picture - A big thank you to Mrs.Horton, Mrs. Smallwood, and Mr. Clency for putting on an awesome party.

Mario's Solution

Pre-Spelling B

Curriculum Focus this Week

Math - adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators

Grammar - investigating prepositions

Writing - investigating personal narratives

Reading about Space

Working on fractions in IXL

Red and Green song

More Kindergarten pictures

Scene from today's Kindergarten presentation

Learning about Coding using Minecraft

Curriculum Focus for the week of 12-7-2015

Math - adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators

video tutorial: http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_fractions_diffden.html

Grammar - investigating prepositions

IXL Language Arts lessons Y.1, Y.2, Y.3, and Y.4

Writing - students will continue investigating and comparing personal narrative pieces

Adding Fractions

Area model

Adding fractions model on a number line

Curriculum Focus for the week of 11-30-2015

Math 

Finding the Least Common Denominator (LCD) 

Using the LCD to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators

Grammar

Subordinate conjunctions

Writing

Students will begin investigating the structure  of personal narratives

Peer editing during writing

Peer Editing Informational Writing

Ms. Waring's class exploring adding fractions with unlike denominators.

Using fraction bars

Solving Fraction Problems

Solving Fraction Problems

Researching Correlative Conjunctions

Focus this Week

Math - identifying fractions with unlike denominators on a number line

Grammar - investigating correlative conjunctions

Writing - informational writing

Science-models for learning about Sun-rise and Sun-set

Math Focus this week - placing fractions with unlike denominators on a number line

Writing focus - informational writing - the students are creating their own informational book using either Google slides or docs

Grammar - begin our investigation on conjunctions

Fifth Grade Mighty Minions

Taping of Dr. Uswatte

Volume Robot

Curriculum Focus This Week

Math - division using 2-digit divisors and 4-digit dividends

Grammar - Using commas

Writing - Informational writing

Science - Halloween experiments

Reading - comparing non-fiction and fiction text (compare and contrasting text types)

Big 7 Division Strategy

Big 7 Division with Mohamid and Jakayla

Fuel to Play 60 Website

Partial Quotient Division

Learning about commas

Curriculum Focus for the week of 10/19/2015
Math - Finding the volume of rectangular prisms and developing problem solving skills
Writing - Finishing up our self-selected topic opinion essays
Grammar - students are working on presentations to teach the class about how to use commas

Working on Opinion essays

Problem Solving in IXL

Book Buddies with 3rd graders

Working with Volume

Working with Volume

Our math focus this week will be on finding the Volume of Rectangular Prisms. 

In writing we will continue to work on our Opinion essays.

In grammar students continue work on identifying plural nouns. 

Multiplication Example

Number Talk

Mrs. Gilmore's class hard at work.

Post Fun Run

Fun Run

Pre-Fun Run

Robot at work.

Spain Park Robotics Team talks to Fifth Grade

Sabrina's Math Strategy

More Big 7 Division

Big 7 Division