Reading Comprehension Stations

Students created character trait face masks.  They worked together to brainstorm different traits about themselves. The students wrote words to describe themselves on the mask.

Students were sorting theme and main idea passages.  

Students were working together to read a legend and discuss it together.

Students wrote summaries based on Folk Tales that they read in class.

Social Studies Native American Poster

Students worked in groups to learn about the different Native American Tribes and to do research to create a project.  After they created the posters, they presented their poster to the class.

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.