January 29th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS
* No homework menu this week

MATH

Barber: No math today

Brazier: No math today

Martinez: No math today

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: Independent reading/ Partnership Chalk Talk.

Brazier: Chalk Talk to bring closure to our unit on Reading in the Company of Others

Martinez: No Reading Workshop today

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: No writing today/ computer lab time

Brazier: Poetry Reflections

Martinez: No Writing Workshop today

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

 Chapter 8: Read aloud 8.6 & INB page 47    

         

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

Word of the Day (relationships). Spelling Sort. Analogies. Word Masters pre-test.

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

Muscles are attached to bones and help us move.  Building a human arm model.

Skeletal Quiz on Friday, February 5.  All students should have taken the paper below home today.  Study the names and location of the bones below.

January 28th, 2016

Half Day

5th Grade Poetry Slam

Thank you for all the parents and family members who came to celebrate our love for poetry!

January 27th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• We hope to see some of you tomorrow from 10:30-11:30 for the Poetry Slam.

• Both tomorrow (01/28) and Friday are half days, with dismissal at 11:46.

MATH

Barber: CFP

Brazier: Order of Operations: P.E.M.D.A.S.

* ASK: “Solve 4 + 3 X (3 + 1).” (Answer: 16)

Martinez: CFP Retake.

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: Independent reading/ Partnership Chalk Talk.

Brazier: “Readers linger on a book’s conclusion.” Indelible Images.

Martinez:  Independent Reading.  Conferring about poetry.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber:On demand & poetry jam dry run.

Brazier: Poetry “Ham” Dry Run. Revision Strategy: Exaggerate punctuation upon an oral reading.

Martinez: Poetry Slam practice

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

               

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160120&utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&utm_term=storyshare

January 26th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• We hope to see some of you on Thursday from 10:30-11:30 for the Poetry Slam.

• Both this coming Thursday (01/28) and Friday are half days, with dismissal at 11:46.

MATH

Barber: CFP review  

*TEST: DIVIDING DECIMALS WEDNESDAY.

Brazier: Decimal Computations. P.E.M.D.A.S.

* ASK: “What does P.E.M.D.A.S. stand for? What is it used for?”

Martinez: Strand 4 CFP Review.

* CFP Retake tomorrow.

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: Independent reading

Brazier: “Partners push each other to back up their ideas with passages from the text.”

Martinez:  Independent Reading.  Working on indelible images.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: Revision partner work.  Read it out loud.

Brazier: Revision Strategy: Read poem aloud, exaggerating the punctuation

Martinez: Poetry work day.

Invitations for our Poetry Slam are due tomorrow!

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

Barber: 8.4  and Step Inside of the Middle Passage.                  

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160120&utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&utm_term=storyshare

January 25th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Congratulations to:

• Hayden Lamrouex, our school spelling bee champion!
• Clara Kociba, the winner of the yearbook cover contest!

• From 10:30-11:30 on Thursday, each of our classrooms will host a Poetry Slam, and you’re invited! Please return the R.S.V.P. by tomorrow.   

MATH

Barber: Review packet and PEMDAS practice.  

*TEST: DIVIDING DECIMALS WEDNESDAY.

Brazier: Interpreting Remainders. P.E.M.D.A.S.

* ASK: “What does  it mean to interpret a remainder?”

Martinez: DELTA Screening.  Handed back CFP.  Retake on Wednesday.

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: Poetry practice

Brazier: “Partners push each other to back up their ideas with passages from the text.”

Martinez:  Independent Reading

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber: Revision partner work.  Read it out loud.

Brazier: Revision Strategy: Change past tense to present tense

* ASK: “Have you signed up to work with a high school senior on poetry revisions? What’s one way in which you’ve made your published piece(s) of poetry better?”

Martinez: Poetry work day.

Invitations for our Poetry Slam went home today!

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

BARBER:  Chapter 8.2 & 8.3, INB page 46.  Small group discussions on choices the Africans had when the Europeans came to trade.

MARTINEZ & BRAZIER: 8.4 & 8.5, INB page 47.                     

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

Word of the Day (plaza). Spelling Sort.

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

All science classes worked on labeling their “active” skeleton.

In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160120&utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&utm_term=storyshare

January 22nd, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Congratulations to Hayden Lamrouex, our school spelling bee champion! Hayden has advanced to the next round of the competition at Oakland University. Our school’s alternate was Clara Kociba.

• Congratulations to Malaya Mojica, whose artwork will appear on the back of this year’s yearbook.

• Congratulation, again, to Clara Kociba, whose artwork will appear on the front of this year’s yearbook. She is the grand prize winner.

• From 10:30-11:30 on Thursday, each of our classrooms will host a Poetry Slam, and you’re invited! Be on the lookout for an R.S.V.P.  

MATH

Barber: Continue review of PEMDAS.  Next week we will have the final Strand 4 CFP.

Brazier: Interpreting Remainders.

Martinez: Introduction of division with decimals.  Where does the decimal go?

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Partnerships ‘buzz’ about good books.”

Brazier: “Partners push each other to back up their ideas with passages from the text.”

Martinez:  Independent Reading

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber:  Choose and type up final poems.  Also, work with CHS students to better our poetry.

Brazier: Revision Strategies

Martinez: Opinion/Argument writing On-Demand

Invitations for our Poetry Slam went home today!

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

   Chapter 8.2 & 8.3, INB page 46.  Small group discussions on choices the Africans had when the Europeans came to trade.                      

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

Spelling Groups and Activities

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

All science classes worked on making an “active” skeleton.

In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160120&utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&utm_term=storyshare

January 21st, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• From 10:30-11:30 on Thursday, January 28, each of our classrooms will host a Poetry Slam, and you’re invited! Stay tuned for more information.  

MATH

Barber: Math review packet.

Brazier: Interpreting Remainders. Worksheet.

Martinez: Introduction of division with decimals.  Where does the decimal go?

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Partnerships ‘buzz’ about good books.”

Brazier: “Partners push each other’s thinking.”

Martinez:  Independent Reading

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber:  Work day

Brazier: “Poets, like all writers, constantly aim to do better.”

* ASK: “What are the three FORBIDDEN WORDS during your revision work with poetry?” (Answer: get / is / are)

Martinez: Poetry work day.

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

   Chapter 8.1: Slavery.  Step Inside.                          

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

Word of the Day (linear). Spelling Groups. Parts of Speech Review. Mad Libs.

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)

In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160120&utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&utm_term=storyshare

January 20th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• From 10:30-11:30 on Thursday, January 28, each of our classrooms will host a Poetry Slam, and you’re invited! Stay tuned for more information.  

MATH

Barber: Introduction to PEMDAS.  CFR.

Brazier: Computing quotients of decimals to the hundredths place efficiently and accurately. The Meaning of Remainders.

* ASK: “How can you use multiplication to check that 519 ÷ 4 equals 129 R 3?

* HOMEWORK: FINISH “DARE TO DIVIDE DECIMALS!”

Martinez: Introduction of division with decimals.  Where does the decimal

READING WORKSHOP

Barber: “Partnerships ‘buzz’ about good books.”

Brazier: “Partners cite page numbers as ‘evidence.’”

* ASK: “Tell me about the texts you and your partner have read during the past couple of weeks.”

Martinez:  “Partnerships ‘buzz’ about good books.”

WRITING WORKSHOP

Barber:  Work day

Brazier: “Poets, like all writers, constantly aim to do better.”

* ASK: “Tell me about a way in which you revised your poem today.”

Martinez: Peer Revision

HOMEWORK: Students are to revise their poem on their own and then with an adult at home.  Please use the white “Poetry” sheet as a guide.

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  

                                

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)

* HOMEWORK: FINISH PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION (Diagram) IF NEED BE

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)