So Yesterday we got the awesome opportunity to have David Sawyer from Storm Team 9 visit our classes in 5th grade. Wasn't that awesome??? He even let you help predict the weather. How cool! Did you watch the weather forecast last night to see if he included what we said? If not go to www2.wnct.com and go to Storm Team 9 and see if you can find it. Tell me about what he taught you yesterday. How does that help him forecast the weather? What was awesome about Mr. Sawyer coming in to our school? How does what Mr. Sawyer do as a meteorologist RELATE to what we have learned about weather? We will be on KidCam 9 on the news tonight at 6pm after the main news broadcast. TUNE IN and check it out. If you would like to send a Thank You to Mr. Sawyer you may email me and I will send them to him, or you can add it to your blog post comment. I will share the site with him later. REMEMBER when posting to refer to the rubric I posted on 9-25-12 as a guide for what you should include in your comment. Make it thoughtful and tell me about our experience with a real live meteorologist!
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Saturday was the first day of Fall. Have you noticed how the weather is already changing? I was up late last night working on things to make Friday a special day for our school. Friday is our goal setting event and iPad launch. We will be going to ECU and we need to put our "best foot forward" meaning we need to represent SGE well! Today is the day for your extra credit activity to be turned in including a tree map and double bubble map. I need this emailed to me by the end of the day or you will not get credit. Make sure you send it to [email protected]. Some of you haven't been typing the email correctly so I haven't received your work. I was also working on some rubrics for blog posts and electronic projects. Check them out so you know how i am grading them and what I am expecting (we have talked about expectations in class on these)
Any other work you have not completed needs to be turned in TODAY. Grades will be finished up tonight for progress reports.
So this morning in the shower I was doing some thinking...it is one of my favorite places to think. Haha! Its quiet and no one bothers me there! So anyways....I was thinking about how we were comparing when Mrs. Boyd was in school with now. So, it made me think of a great idea for a mini-project for you! This will be some extra credit for SS. It will be due on Tuesday!! I want you to look up school when Mrs. Boyd and Miss Davis were in 5th grade like you. So research school in about 1965 and 1991 when we would have been 10. You can do this on a poster or in an electronic way (Educreations, Doodle Buddy, Evernote, Google Doc, etc-your choice). It would need to include pictures of schools then, technolgy, how kids went to school and events that might have occurred during that year (you may include other things). You need to make a tree map of all 3 years- 1965, 1991, 2012. Then I would like to also make a double bubble map which would compare and contrast 2 of the years. Remember this is due Tuesday. It can be completed during extra time or after your morning work blog today and Monday. If you do a poster you would need to print pictures at home or the public library to include. This will be an extra SS grade and I encourage ALL of you to do it!
Here is an example of a double bubble map that compares and contrasts. Copy HW for tonight. Please submit your SS homework as a comment to this post. We had a rough afternoon yesterday, what can make it better? What can you do to make things right in our class? After you have typed in your HW and responded to these questions, please finish Study Island benchmarks. Watch the following video. We will reflect on it soon. We will watch it several times. Destinee is back! YEAH!! Copy down your homework! I will sign off later. The purple study guide on weather needs to go into your science notebook. You will need this for HW tonight! Please correct the following sentences and EMAIL me your answers. THIS WILL BE A GRADE!!!
1. there is two copies of king of the wind, a good book, on the shelf 2. has jenny hitted the ball yet When this is complete I want you to work on your reading benchmark on Study Island. DO NOT WORK ON OTHER APPS, you will lose your iPad priveleges!!! Today is Constitution/Citizenship day! What is good citizenship? Watch the video above of questions that are asked of someone who was not born in our country and would like to be a citizen. (research citizenship if you are not sure) How many do you know? What does it mean to you to be a citizen of the US? What do you like about the US? Do you know that in other countries kids like you don't all get a free education? What does freedom mean to you? After you complete the video, You need to watch the Air Pressure video under my science spot. I would also like you to see me to get the investigation papers for today's science notebook lesson.
HOORAY!!! It's Friday!! Do you know what TGIF stands for? If not, research it and let me know in your comment! We have been in school for 3 weeks now. So far, what do you like? What is not your favorite? What would you like to see Miss Davis do this year? What are you dreading about 5th grade this year? When you are done responding, you need to make sure you have cut out and glued the 2 new pages into your planner and copied HW. All weekly folders need to be turned in as well. When you have done all of that, you need to read a book/take AR tests after filling out a reader's response! M There are some papers on your desk to add to your planner. PLEASE cut them on the edge of the picture or on the line that I added to the page. You will then glue them into your planner on the weeks for August. They should fit if you do front and back. If you did not finish your educreations video, now is the time to finish and submit. Bring me your iPad and I will help you start an account. Question for today...what makes a cloud? AR reading and tests when you have completed this work.
Our planners have come in!! We will set them up today. Why do you think we need to be organized? Each night your parents will need to sign or initial your planner for that day. I will be checking it daily too, or I will have one of helpers do it. What did you learn yesterday? Be specific. What questions do you still have? What can I do to help you understand the things you didn't get? When you have posted a nice meaty comment, you need to read for AR. Do NOT explore!
11 years ago today an event that would change our Country forever occurred. I was at home sick from classes in college and my roommate called me and told me to turn on the TV. The feeling that day that the bad would continue to come our way and the fact that so many people were lost......and for what? Check out this BrainPop video http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/september11th/ to learn more about this event that most of you were either a baby or were not even born yet when it happened. How does this make you feel? What could you do to help the families of those that lost their loved ones? What kind of remembrance would you do for these people who died at the hands of someone who had no right to take it from them. |
Miss Davis5th Grade Teacher at SGE
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