Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

Today was a terrific day!  Everyone made great efforts to follow the expectations of our Roadrunner Responsibilities.  Focused attention was given by all to improving self-control, and we observed excellent results.  We had mini-lessons on character development and setting, which are important literary elements as we read and write.  Thinking about these elements helps our comprehension as [...]

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Today we continued to learn about using storyboards.  We read A Bad Case of Stripes. We then used a storyboard template to sketch and write text about the main ideas of the story, including the beginning and ending.  We also had a good literature discussion about connections and theme.  This story has a wonderful theme: be yourself [...]

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Everyone seemed to enjoy the long weekend and came in ready to start the day.  We had our spelling pretest.  We also reviewed the correct usage of the pronouns I and me.  Our next writing project will be digital stories.  We learned about the planning process of using storyboards.  In Social Studies we began a [...]

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Mr. Bosch’s homeroom students took the MAP Math test today.  Mrs. Foxworth’s homeroom students will take it tomorrow.  We reviewed our vocabulary for our quiz tomorrow.  We continued talking about writing good leads, and looked at our own work  to think about how we might improve our first sentences.  
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Friday, Sept. 22: Students won’t come to [...]

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Today I shared with my students about a wonderful writing conference that I attended over the weekend that was led by one of my favorite authors, Sue Monk Kidd.  She spent 3 hours talking about getting ideas for writing and 3 hours talking about the craft of writing.  It was wonderful, and I gained some [...]

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I’m sorry for the lapse in posting!  Sometimes there are just too many things to do!  Our week is off to a good beginning.  Our new vocabulary words this week are antonyms.  After a lesson on editing, students used Hal Reader to proofread their personal narratives.  Students used headphones to listen to the computer read their text [...]

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Interims went home today!  Please sign and return the purple and blue grade sheets.  In word study today we reviewed short vowel sounds.  We are continuing to work on the 4 types of sentences and the vocabulary from Pioneer Girl.  One group began reading the book Dandelions, and the other group had Spanish today.  Tomorrow [...]

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Today we took a spelling pretest to prepare for our new spelling unit.  We also did an online game to study our vocabulary words for the Pioneer Girl story.  On Friday there will be a reading quiz on this story.  Students worked hard to finish typing drafts of their personal narratives. Some students also had time to do [...]

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We had our first fire drill this morning.  Most students did a good job of remembering the procedures.  We watched a short BrainPop video about the 4 types of sentences that made us laugh, so we watched it again!  As a group we orally took the quiz that followed the video, and we’re finally learning how [...]

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Today we did lots of online activities.  We reviewed genre definitions and this week’s vocabulary words with Quia activities.  I posted our assignments for today on our class activities blog, and students were able to be somewhat self-paced in accomplishing the tasks.  We learned today that our blog host site can’t handle 20 people trying [...]

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