Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

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.

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Today in math the students worked on reducing fractions or putting fractions in simplest form. We discussed how the skill of reducing fractions is really using the skill of finding an equivalent fraction. The only criteria is that we want an equivalent fraction that uses the smallest numbers possible. We discussed that the students can [...]

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Today in math we reviewed the concept of equivalent fractions and then introduced the skill of comparing and ordering fractions. We discussed how the skills of finding LCM and making equivalent fractions are important to being able to compare and order fractions. The students worked on some practice problems in class and tonight should do [...]

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On Friday the students learned about equivalent fractions. They learned that fractions can have different names, but an equal value. We discussed and practiced creating equivalent fractions by using multiplication and division.
In science the students began taking some notes on Ecosystems and watched a very good UnitedStreaming video about the many biotic (living) and abiotic [...]

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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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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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