Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

It’s hard to believe that today is the last day before the holidays.  We enjoyed our Christmas concert and program this morning. Yesterday we finished recording the narrations of our most recent writing about our best gifts.  We began this writing activity after we read the book Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant.   Links to podcasts of these writings [...]

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It’s that time of the year when every family (including mine) has a variety of errands and events scheduled everyday.  There just isn’t enough time in the day to get it all done!  Unfortunately, my blogging time has been greatly reduced.  Today I’m going to do a recap of the week so far.  We are [...]

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After our spelling pretest we had a reading lesson on the literary element of theme. Then we began our new reading unit. During the next couple of weeks we’ll be reading and discussing a variety of holiday books. Through these discussions we’ll be comparing and contrasting themes. Monday’s story was Silver [...]

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It’s hard to believe that December is already here.  We only have two and a half weeks left of first semester.  My day got off to a rough start when my car died as I was driving to school.  Fortunately, that didn’t set the tone for the day, and my car has now been repaired.
Today [...]

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