Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

After discussing our geography vocabulary words today, we reviewed the Big 6 information literacy strategies and the steps that we have already taken to plan for research.  Students will be researching the life of key figures in American history during the mid-1900s. They were interested to discover today who they would be researching.  We continued [...]

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Our new vocabulary words for this week are all geography terms.  These connect well with the science unit on landforms. Use the Quia review activity to study these words.  We had a lesson today about critical analysis of sources.  What makes a source credible and useful? Students identified types of texts that are generally reliable [...]

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It’s hard to believe it’s already Friday.  This week we’ve continued working with monitoring our comprehension when reading nonfiction text as we continued reading books about landforms.  Soon we will be ready to begin our research projects, so we spent time exploring resources we will be using, including DISCUS online encyclopedias and Wikipedia.  We had some great discussion about [...]

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It was nice to get that extra little bit of sleep this morning.  Fortunately the roads didn’t seem to get too dangerous, although one of our students had a little fender-bender on the way to school.  By the time we arrived at school, Block 1 was already over.  Foxworth’s homeroom group had some good time [...]

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It finally began to feel like winter today!  At recess time the wind chill was 31 degrees,
so we were required to have indoor recess.  Today after reviewing spelling words and the reading response journals from last night, we had a lesson about distinguishing between fact and opinion.  An important skill for information literacy is the [...]

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It certainly felt like Monday all day. I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Students took a pretest on a new spelling unit today. The spelling test will be on Friday since we didn’t come to school yesterday. Today we read the story, “Earthquake Terror” from our reading book. This [...]

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Report cards went home today. Stuffed inside each envelope was an amazing amount of papers! It took a long time to get all those things folded and stuffed. Besides the report card envelope, 3 things need to be signed and returned: the yellow field trip permission, the blue early release form, and the [...]

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Today students began thinking about these questions, “If you could meet anyone living or dead, who would it be? Why would you like to meet this person? ” That’s the topic for the next writing assignment. After completing self-evaluations of their writing, this is an opportunity for students to focus on areas that [...]

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Students received new vocabulary words today.  That quiz will be on Thursday.  Check out the Quia practice activity.  Students posted their paragraphs about their New Year’s Resolutions on their blogs today.  After a mini-lesson about nonfiction genre, students participated in a Riverdeep lesson that focused on the elements of table of contents, glossary, and index.

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It was a good day! Everyone was in favor of this two-day week. Students spent time looking at the writing they did during the first half of the year. We revisited the four domains of the PACT writing rubric so that they could examine their work and look for content, organization, [...]

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