Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

We began the morning with a Red Ribbon follow-up activitiy, an assembly featuring a magician.  The program was called The Magic’s in You!  It was a lot of fun and provided a good message about making wise choices.  In Block 1 Mrs. Stone came in to do a lesson on monitoring comprehension.  She shared a [...]

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It’s hard to believe October is almost over!  Today was a hectic day in the lab.  Students were introduced to PhotoStory 3 software, which is a free internet download from Microsoft.  Check out the hyperlink if you’re interested.  It is a wizard for creating digital videos from pictures in just a matter of minutes. Students imported [...]

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It was a busy day!  We had a mini-lesson on the 4 domains of the PACT writing rubric, which are Content, Organization, Voice, and Conventions.  Looking at a rubric that contained illustrations helped us understand and visualize the concepts.  We revisited the book Wilma Unlimited for an example of an effective lead and closing.  Students continued [...]

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Today we had some extended self-selected reading time.  We are working on thinking about thinking while we read.  Students were given sticky notes today to jot down things they thought about while they were reading.  We’re especially trying to notice big ideas, connections, or questions we may have.  Students will soon be posting their thoughts about their [...]

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Today marked the beginning of Red Ribbon Week, and all students watched a video about Drugasaurus.  We had some good discussion about how learning to make wise choices now everyday at school helps establish good thinking patterns that will help them make wise choices later in life.  Students are working on essays about their role [...]

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Today was an awesome day.  Most students finished their digital story illustrations and inserted them into a PowerPoint.  Some students used Smart Notebook, some used Paint, and some drew pictures on paper and took digital pictures of their drawings.  Learning to insert these different types of images required some new learning, and the students did [...]

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Today was a very different kind of day.  (To be honest, everyday is! ) We began the morning with practice drills for intruder alerts and hurricanes.  Then I conducted a mini-lesson partially in Spanish, requested by Senor Frank.  We did a taste test.  He brought in bananas and plantains, and the question was, “Cual [...]

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It was refreshing to feel the cooler air at recess today!  This week is a review week for vocabulary.  We will be looking back at the 4 units of vocabulary words we’ve had up until now.  Students double-checked their OM graphic organizers today for completeness.  I am conferencing with students about their webs.  Illustrations are [...]

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Happy long weekend!  Remember that students have the day off tomorrow.  Mrs. Foxworth’s homeroom students brought home a blue paper that needs to be signed and returned on Monday to indicate your child’s plans for next Wednesday’s collaborative planning day. 
After the spelling test today, students brainstormed to prewrite for an essay about someone who is [...]

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Everyone looked great for school pictures today!  We continued talking about homophones.  Understanding and identifying author’s purpose was a skill we reviewed, and students did an online Quia activitiy to identify the author’s purpose of various types of writing.  We also discussed first person and third person point of view.  Good readers need to be [...]

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