The North Star Gazette
Audrey and Adell's Perspective
Intro
Mrs. Jones's class have been working extremely hard in class the past two weeks. They have been having TONS of fun lately from Science experiments all the way to writing their own stories. They also had plenty of flexibility with substitute teachers and math tests in both advanced math and 5th grade math. You just have to see all the exciting things we did this week below.
Macy's Fiction
Macy has been working on Historical fiction writing. Her time period is in 1912. It is about the titanic.
Delaney's Writing
Delaney was writing a fantasy story about a werewolf. I can't wait to see how that turns out!
Adell's Writing
Adell is writing an interesting story all about "the girl". Or at least, that is what she said.
Writing
As you saw above, there are different types of fiction that people have been working on. There are awesome stories from interesting time periods. We have been working on the story elements, and many have actually started writing. I suggest you ask your child about his/her story.
Reading
In reading, our class worked on discovering a way to present a claim, theory, or theme that we created after reading part of the book Julian's Chapter. We added evidence from the book to back up our ideas.
Jonathan and Diego's Claim
In reading, partnered groups were asked to create their own claim from the book Julian's chapter. They were allowed to use anologies, symbolism, or another interesting way to explain and back up their claim.
Rileigh and Tyler's Theory
Some groups thought of their own ways to present their work. These two bright minds created their one computer program that backed up their thoughts and also represented symbolism.
Cate and Lexie's Theme
Some groups just listed evidence in bright colors and decorated posters backing their ideas up. Evidence was very important in this project.
Math
Math
During math this week, Mrs. Jones was out a bit due to a sick kid and Mrs. Wallen took her place. She was happy to know that she understood everything the kids were doing in math this week. The kids have been working on converting decimals to percentage, and Mrs. Wallen made this easier for all of the kids.
Lena's Group
We had so much fun during dissections, in which we discovered many animal bones. I didn't know Venelope had a sister!
Gavin's Group
Many groups had great fun looking at the interesting animal bones and seeing what they resembled.
Delaney's Group
This group knows it is all about teamwork. Different people used different tools to discover skeletons inside their pellet.
Science
This week, we have been working hard on our science experiments. They had lots of options, and kids worked out some very interesting projects. We also recently finished owl dissections, many groups found an entire skeleton.
Veteran's
Elliott, Gavin H., Tyler, Audrey, and Adell
Day
Taylor, Cate, and Zoe
Program!
Anthony, Teddy, and Austin
Classroom Fun
Even though having a substitute is not what this class wants, subs have done amazing jobs for these students. Mr. Kimmel successfully taught all the students the first ten presidents while setting goals, and Mrs. Wallen (who knows she isn't exactly a math whiz), explained to the advanced math students how converting decimals can be seen as easy.
Good Behavior Is Rewarded
Kids in this class set goals that pushed them to be better and try harder at new things. Of course, Mrs. Jones has set rewards along the way as motivation. When a student meets a goal, they color in one star on a sheet. Every ten stars is a level, and as the levels get higher, the prizes get bigger. The prizes could be anything from lunch in the classroom to spending extra time with the class pet, Venelope. Thank you Mrs. Jones!