We have been talking clouds, making clouds, and identifying clouds this week. I’ve had Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now in my head all week. The kids are loving reading the magic school bus book the last few minutes of class. It’s a great way to refer to what we talked about. We watched some videos about the Coriolis effect. It’s a big concept, but it’s a good way to tie in currents of air and water and how they are all connected. 

Hello 5th grade,

Sorry about the mixed up quizzes. I joked with the students that they watched the same video about water cycle (states of matter) as the chemistry on Wednesday and they should have been able to do it. We did the correct quiz in class today. We have a test in one week. I plan to do the test in the book except the T/F page. We went back over labeling a map today. We even got to play battleship with lines of latitude and longitude.

   For Wednesday …after we do our notes. I want the kids to make a “travel poster/brochure/webpage” on a half sheet of poster board that I have. They will work in teams to research a biome/habitat on Chromebook (if they are not being used in another class). They will then draw and print info on the boards to entice people to visit their area.

   We read today from a Louis Giglio book about how God gives plants and animals special features to survive/adapt to the environment.  He will do that for us. And He is the ultimate source of thirst quenching.

We have gone over a ton of information. We still have more to get to before the test. I’m looking over the test and it’s 5 pages! How would y’all feel if we skipped the true/ false section. Is that allowed? True/false honestly confuses me. My brain tries to correct it or over thinks it. I think it’s more important for kids to label the map and water cycle on the following pages. 
   Next week we are discussing biomes and habitats. If we have time in class, I hope to have them draw a habitat on the half sheets of poster board some of y’all thankfully brought in. This will be instead of the habitat diorama that is in the Want More section. 
  We have moved to putting one boy at each table to see if that helps with the talking. But please remind them that we have a lot to do and constant chatter doesn’t help. 

Hi everyone! 
  We had an action packed Wednesday. We got in a fun lab exploring glacier melt, did our notes and watched a video on why glacier ice is blue. These two classes are big and we have a lot of fun stuff planned. Can you remind your kiddos that there is a time to talk and a time to listen, there is a time to play with paper and a time to learn. I may have to move to assigned seats for a little while if the talking persist. It’s not only disruptive  to me but distracts fellow students when kids have side conversations.  They are doing a great job of filling in their notes and class discussions are great. 
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/go-inside-an-ice-cave-to-see-natures-most-beautiful-blue

5/6th Earth Science

  We had fun learning about Rivers this week. We got to get outside for a few minutes on Monday to do our experiment. Then we watched a video on Wednesday to put some visuals to what we talked about in our note taking. I had one more video to watch, but our time was short because of Chapel (which was excellent). I’ll include the link to the video we did watch and the one we didn’t get to. 

 

  Next we will be exploring oceans, which is always fascinating. 

 

https://youtu.be/CDEj62HGNkk?si=ReMUfc0MoychkvRS

 

https://youtu.be/g3Y3vCgVeM0?si=t6DsWkHoTCnBjfTV

We had a big week in science trying to catch up from last week. We went over two sets of notes. Thankfully, Mrs Rosenbaum gave me her notes that already had most of the notes typed out and we just had to fill in some words. We also went over the first quiz together. As of right now, I don’t plan on grading the quizzes. I do want the student to bring them back to me on Mondays along with what they worked on at home on Thursday. You can use the quiz as part of your grading records to help offset test grades.

   We went over all the different parts of the book. There are lots of little parts that can fall through the cracks. They need to fill out the vocabulary words at the beginning of each unit  (some weeks there may be one word and others there might be more). They also need to fill in the dates for each unit in the front of the book. We talked about how it’s okay to paraphrase or shorten the info for those entries.

Monday we will be doing labs in both classes. Please feel free to drop off supplies a week or two early. 

For this past week, chemistry was working on a report that covers one element of their choosing. We did research in class on Monday. The report needs to be about two paragraphs long and in their own words of what they learned. It can be hand written or (voice to text) typed.