Finally, it's Friday!!!!! We currently have 33 Dollar Words as a class. Meredith, Lauren, Regan, Anderson, Stephanie, and Kelsie have found their first dollar words. We began reading Night of the Spadefoot Toad this week. This novel was one of last year's Golden Sower Nominees and is a new book for 5th graders. If you'd like to know what happens in this story, ask us or be an example and pick up the book and read it. We started our math rotations this week. We have had four lessons and a pre-test.
Next week we will continue to be dismissed at 1:00 due to the heat. FYI, Mrs. Shaw's room on Thursday afternoon before we had lunch was already 2 degrees hotter inside than it was outside.TGIF!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Closing Thoughts
Phew! We made it through the first two days of school! Sigh, we had to take a test, but we got through it. It was a math baseline test to show what we know. It has been a struggle not having ANY recess because our recess is at our dismissal time. :( Mrs. Cafferty lead us in an all school assembly on Thursday. She talked to us about respect and her message was to Go for the Gold. That means to try your hardest and practice, practice, practice.
Our biggest excitement was starting our read a loud book titled Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea. This book is a brand new 5th grade teacher and his class. One of their assignments was to find "Dollar Words." Mike and Grace have both found their own Dollar Words while the rest of us are still scavenging. Bye Bye For Now!
Our biggest excitement was starting our read a loud book titled Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea. This book is a brand new 5th grade teacher and his class. One of their assignments was to find "Dollar Words." Mike and Grace have both found their own Dollar Words while the rest of us are still scavenging. Bye Bye For Now!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
First Day of School
Wow!!! What a great first day of school! I am so excited about this school year and what we have coming up. Today we took care of what I like to call "business" type activities. For example, we reviewed rules and expectations for several different areas. We also helped the kindergarteners get through the lunch line and learn about the cafeteria. I know the kindergarten teachers were very thankful to have our help. My favorite part of the day was launching Read to Self. I was very impressed by how much stamina we had to start out. What a great way to start the year!
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