Hello,
I was happy to see a note in my mailbox this afternoon letting the staff know that we can send math tests home again. Thank you to everyone involved in helping make that happen.
Friday is our first walk/bike to school day. Fifth graders are being asked to wear orange to show their school spirit. I'll have to get out my orange pants again.
We started the day writing compliments to each other. Each compliment was supposed to be accompanied by some evidence. You could write that someone was nice without writing about something specific that they had done that was nice. That was the idea anyway. When each student read their favorite compliment, most favorites were a series of compliments without any evidence. We'll keep working on that. Ask your child what their favorite compliment was and if any of their compliments that they wrote were read as favorites. (Unfortunately, many correctly written compliments with evidence were not chosen as favorites because it was hard for them to compete with a series of 3-4 compliments written by one person.)
This afternoon we "drew" with water as a follow-up to yesterdays presentation on the chemistry of water. It is nice having flooring instead of carpet for these type of things. We also did a few science probes to make sure that we understand density, boiling points and freezing points.
My math class had some trouble as I moved around the unknowns and the equals sign.
For example:
605 = 432 + _______ or 784 - _______ = 456
We'll keep working on it.
I was pleased with many of the essays on "When I would not want to live." They also got in perfect order when I asked them to create a human timeline of the time periods that they had chosen to write about.
The music teacher complimented our class on how well we interact with one another. Always good to hear.
Have a good night,
Mr. Shea
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