Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

Happy Friday!  Today after taking the Math 4 Today and Daily Language quizzes, students edited their personal narratives about the field trip.  They used Ultra Hal Reader and headphones to listen to their writing being read aloud by the computer.  We have found that what we write and what we thought we wrote don’t always match.  This oral [...]

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Study for Morning Work Quiz (Math 4 Today #28)

Cells Test on Wednesday 3/21/07

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The last day to turn in the permission slips and the $2 for the field trip to see the LHS Drama students perform Aesop’s Fables on Thursday, March 22nd is tomorrow 3/16/07.
Mr. B.

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I know what some of you are probably thinking, “Where has Mr. Bosch been on this blog since September?”
Well, it has been to put it kindly a crazy year this year and unfortunately keeping up with this blog has fallen low on my list of priorities until now. I am so inspired by my partner [...]

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We continued our study of prepositions today as we went over our homework and then watched a BrainPop video about prepositional phrases. Next we read Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter by Timothy Bush. This science fiction book was a nice change of pace for us because we’ve been reading a lot of [...]

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Students received new spelling words today.  Then they began a new writing activity.  Following the directions posted on our class activity blog, students began using Word to write personal narratives describing our field trip.  I was impressed with the enthusiasm with which students were writing!  Students who prefer doing other things besides writing were writing [...]

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What a great day we had in Charleston on Friday!  We learned a lot about marine habitats at the South Carolina Aquarium and enjoyed seeing the turtles, alligators, fish, and other sea creatures.  Although it was a little cool and drizzly during our picnic, the students enjoyed a long period of recreation afterwards.  The 3-D [...]

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After examining our new vocabulary words this morning, we continued to read Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee. We finally finished this wonderful book of mini-biographies today. Students completed a written response after we completed the book. Each student chose one woman to write about, describing [...]

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Life at school is never dull, but today was a little more unusual than most days.  Upon arriving at school this morning, I learned that some of our classrooms didn’t have light.  Of course our classrooms were some of those!  We had emergency lighting in the halls, but our 5th grade Global Horizons classes don’t [...]

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In spite of having to come in early from recess due to rain, we had a good day.  After taking the spelling test, we reviewed the correct way to write bibliography entries for books and encyclopedias.  Then we went to the media center to continue our research.  YES, even though we are a Global Horizons [...]

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