Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

Today students began using their Writer’s Notebooks today.  We enjoyed reading Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg today.  It was a story within a story, and we liked the way the author left us thinking at the end.  We began discussing character traits as we are preparing to learn how to write a [...]

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Today in math we continued our discussion of place value and used it to compare and order whole numbers. The students in both blocks did a wonderful job with this task and enjoyed doing a review using the Classroom Performance System (CPS). The CPS is a remote system that allows all students to answer questions [...]

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Today seemed to fly by!  We are well into our routines now.  Students learned how to insert pictures in their Open Mind projects and in a Word document. Mr. Bosch’s students began working on some beach poems today, and Mrs. Foxworth’s students had Spanish class today.  We are working on setting up our email addressbook [...]

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Today, in math, we continued talking about place value and its importance in understanding our base-ten number system. We also talked about three ways to write a number (standard, expanded, and word form) and the students had the opportunity to explore some websites and play some place value games online. Tonight the students will complete [...]

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What a great day!  Students came and folllowed fifth grade routines like they’ve been doing it for a long time.  We are so pleased with our wonderful students this year.  Student took a spelling pretest today.  The results of the pretest determine how many words each individual student will have on the test.  If there is a [...]

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We all made it through the first week quite well!  Today we watched a video to introduce our new social studies unit on Reconstruction.  Both blocks continued working on their “All About Me” Open Mind projects.  Students did a writing activity in math today from the point of view of a digit, explaining place value. [...]

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Today was our first day of completely following our regular schedule.  Math and science were taught in the lab today.  Both groups went to the media center for orientation and had the opportunity to check out books for the first time this year.  Students received self-selected reading folders and reading logs.  Hopefully everyone took a [...]

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We had another great day!  Everything was smoother on day 2, including finding our way to related arts classes and afternoon transportation.  After reviewing Winning Habits and the school procedures video, students changed classes for subjects.  Language Arts classes met in the lab today, and students began learning how to use Open Mind software.  This [...]

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We had such a great day!  It was a thrill to discover that we have such wonderful students this year.  Everyone came in this morning and got right to work.  The most important thing we learned today was “Listen and follow directions!”  Our students did a great job of demonstrating that skill all day.  Mrs. [...]

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Thanks to all of you who came out to orientation Sunday afternoon.  Our classrooms are ready, and we’re looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow morning.  Here’s our daily schedule:
7:30              Go to homeroom
7:45-9:45      Block 1
9:50-11:40   Block 2
11:45-12:00  Recess
12:08-12:33  Lunch
12:40-1:25   Social Studies
1:25-2:15     Related Arts
Spanish: 10:50-11:40  (Tuesday-Foxworth, Thursday-Bosch)
See you in the morning!

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