Weight and Friction

Students engineered cars at the start of the year.  We used these cars to experiment with how adding more weight to the cars slows down the speed of the car.

SCOOT

To help practice math problems, students collaborate with a partner to work on various math computation skills.  Once they finish a problem, they move to the next problem.  Here you can see students playing SCOOT!

Flash to Pass

To help students with math fact fluency, students race against the clock to try to get as many correct multiplication facts!

Summaries

Since the start of school, we have been working on using the summarizing hand.  Now, we are taking it a step father to write summaries.  Here is a students working very hard on his summary!

Fantasy vs. Realism Project

Students created a poster to show the difference between an object that you would see in real life and one that you would read about in the fantasy genre.

Ralph S. Mouse Guided Reading Padlet Project

Students read Ralph S. Mouse for guided reading.  After they learned different reading strategies in the book, students compiled their work on padlets.
Check out their padlets:

http://padlet.com/abigail_marks/65uuxhj2t797

http://padlet.com/abigail_marks/7j9lbeyt780m

http://padlet.com/abigail_marks/z20v2frekj20

http://padlet.com/abigail_marks/oj40j23ls8px

http://padlet.com/abigail_marks/2fblz9oq88cr

Force and Motion with Connects!

Fifth grade students learned about force and motion through many different experiments with connects.  They also learned about blueprints and designing cars.  These are pictures of students collaborating together to design their car.

James and the Giant Peach

As a class, we read James and the Giant Peach.  We used this book to study Fantasy genre elements and to learn reading comprehension strategies.  The Grasshopper in the story always used poems to descrive character traits.  Throughout the book, we talked about this.  After we finished reading the book, students created a character poster and wrote a poem about their character.