Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

Important Note: We were so busy with our computer activities today that I forgot to write a homework assignment on the board.  At the end of the day, I told students that they could choose whether or not to do reading response tonight since we hadn’t written it down.  It’s okay if they want to take [...]

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Today Mr. Geanangel, our Technology Integration Specialist, came to teach us a lesson about personal Internet safety.  He stressed the importance of not sharing any personal information about ourselves on the Internet and that it is best to only communicate with people that we personally know and trust.  Electronic communication is actually one of the [...]

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Today we took a pretest on our new spelling unit.  We talked about possible ideas for writing personal narrative stories based on our memories.  Mrs. Epps, our guidance counselor, came for a class visit to encourage us to make wise choices about how we handle our stress and other feelings.  Check out the Student of [...]

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The week just flew by so quickly!  We read Zathura today, which is a sequel to Jumanji.  We were able to make lots of predictions as we read.  Lots of people had seen the movie, and we were able to make good connections between this book, the movie, Jumanji, and our own relationsips with our [...]

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Today we did an online Learning Styles Inventory.  This tool helped us discover if we were visual, auditory, or tactile learners.  We have many tactile learners in our class, so we’ll need to be involved in lots of “hands-on” activities.  Jumanji was our author study book today, and we talked about reading and making predictions.  We’ve [...]

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We had a special guest today!  Mrs. Stone, our school’s Literacy Coach, came to visit us to tell us some interesting ways we could use our Writer’s Notebooks.  She shared some ideas from Ralph Fletcher and then read us two entries that she had written in her own Writer’s Notebook.  One of the important things [...]

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Today we read The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg.  We made some good connections to our own lives and talked about the use of symbols in stories. Ask your child about what the stone represents.  Our At Home Reading homework begins today.  Your child was given a lavendar paper for you to sign that explains the [...]

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We read an online biography of Chris Van Allsburg today, as well as the answers to some of his most frequently asked questions.  We were especially interested in what he had to say about his inclusion of Fritz, the dog, in each of his books. The book we read today was The Stranger, and we [...]

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In math today we began reviewing for the Chapter 1 test, which will be given on Tuesday of next week. The students will take a pretest tomorrow and if they score well enough on that pretest they will not be required to take the test on Tuesday. Tonight’s homework is to begin reviewing Chapter 1.
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Today in math we discussed the use of a table to help organize data. We learned that using a table is helpful because it makes it easy to locate a single piece of data. We then looked at creating tables or lists using Microsoft Excel. Once we made the lists we learned how Excel will [...]

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