Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch » Announcements

Early Release Day – Wednesday 3/28/07

rbosch — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:07:17 +0000

Just a quick reminder that students have an early release day tomorrow. Students will be dismissed from school at 11:40.

Mr. B.

Mr. Bosch’s Social Studies Test Pushed Back to Thursday

rbosch — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:44:34 +0000

Due to the unscheduled evacuation on Friday and the students not being able to get their bags and materials to study over the weekend, I am rescheduling the Social Studies test for Thursday 3/29/07.

Topics to be covered on this test include:

Expanding Overseas
The Progressive Movement

Mr. B.

Math Test 3/30/07

rbosch — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:42:12 +0000

There will be a math test on Friday 3/30/07.

The topics to be covered on the test will include:

Equivalent Fractions
Comparing Fractions
Ordering Fractions
Simplest Form

Mr. B.

Report Cards and Folders Sent Home Today

rbosch — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:14:16 +0000

Today the students received their report cards for the 3rd Nine Weeks and their take-home folders. Both of these things should be signed and returned no later than Thursday of this week. Please be aware that any student that still owes lunch money or school fees had their report card held until these are paid.

Mr. B.

Mr. Bosch’s Social Studies

rbosch — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:10:52 +0000

We have finished up our reading and discussion on the U.S. expanding overseas and the Progressive Movement. Today the students began working on their study guides on these two lessons and the test for these lessons will be next Tuesday 3/27/07.

Mr. B.

Permission Slips and Money for LHS Field Trip Due Tomorrow

rbosch — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:43:51 +0000

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.

BRRRR!

ffoxworth — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:59:45 +0000

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 ability to make judgments about the texts we read. Does the text come from a valid source? Is it fact, opinion, or a mixture of both? Students completed a short online activity to practice applying this reading strategy. After that students were introduced to a new Web 2.0 Internet tool, diigo. Diigo is an online social bookmarking site. Favorite sites are tagged with key words and can be shared with others. We set up a class diigo account. After searching for useful sites on specific landform topics, students learned how to tag and save interesting sites. We will use this tool when we begin our research projects. Bosch’s students will have Math MAP testing tomorrow morning. Foxworth’s students will take the test on Friday morning.
Come to Family Literacy Night on Friday, February 2nd at RBE from 5:45-8:00. A free spaghetti supper will be served in the RBE cafe from 5:45-6:20. From 6:30-8:00, many exciting South Carolina literacy and art activities will be offered in concurrent sessions for you and your children.

Monday

ffoxworth — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:05:45 +0000

Everyone came in wide awake today, which is unusual for a Monday! We began with a conversation about the value of Web 2.0 tools and the way they enable us to communicate interactively with people around the world. This morning I received comments posted on my personal learning blog from a teacher in Norway inquiring about the possibility of our students sharing some online projects. What a wonderful opportunity to expand our learning community! I introduced the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant,” and the students were able to identify why they are the natives and I am an immigrant. We finished reading Three Names by Patricia MacLachlan and noticed several similes. Word study this week will be a little different. Students have a list of 10 prefixes this week. They need to learn the definitions and be able to correctly spell the sample words.

PTO will be held tomorrow evening at 6:30. Several of our students will be recognized for the role model papers they wrote, and Mr. Geanangel will do a presentation on Internet safety.

Wes Fryer, one of the organizers of the K12 Online Conference, wrote an encouraging blog post about our class. Check it out: Digital Pioneers.

Friday

ffoxworth — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:11:28 +0000

Announcement: Tuesday, Sept. 5, is the final day for the Fundraiser to be returned.

Save the Date: PTO Meeting with Jim Trelease, author, who will speak about “What turns kids on to reading?” Supper will be at 5:30 and the meeting will begin at 6:30. We are fortunate to have this fantastic opportunity!

We read the book The Memory String today and had a great literature discussion. We talked about the fact that our memories are a big part of who we are, and about how the daily events of our lives shape our attitudes, emotions, and reactions. As valued members of this learning community, we’re going to try to be more accepting, tolerant, and understanding of each other. We also spent some more time writing our personal narrative memory stories.

Parent Orientation

ffoxworth — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:31:31 +0000

Parent Orientation will be held on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 6. Two sessions will be held. The first will be from 2:00-2:45, and it will be repeated from 3:00-3:45. We’re looking forward to meeting you!