Fifth Grade
By Heather Zoucha
November 20, 2008
We would like to
thank all the parent volunteers at this time. Some have helped on
our weekly trips to the David Place and Villa while others helped
with the Halloween party and treats. We have also enjoyed the
numerous parent visits to the classroom and lunchroom.
Halloween was a fun time with all the
treats, games, and costumes. Election day was an interesting time
as well. It is exciting to hear the students debate about politics.
We've also celebrated Red Ribbon week, Veteran's Day, and had
Deputy Yost introduce us to the drug dog.
With all the added excitement believe it or not we have also done a
lot in the classroom. ECRI has kept us moving all the time. We have
learned over 200 words and 12 masteries. Keyboarding has been
keeping us busy as well. Some of the students have typed their way
through all the lessons.
Ms. Zoucha's Social Studies has just taken their assessment over
the Native Americans. We will be looking at the explorers and what
they discovered next.
In Math, the students have been working
hard at division. The past couple of weeks have been spent learning
different methods of dividing. The students were encouraged to use
each of the strategies a couple of times when they were first
learned. However, towards the end of the chapter, students were
allowed to use the easiest method for them. Finding the way that
worked best for them was how the fifth grade became successful with
division. The fifth grade will now be moving onto fractions. They
will discover how to make fractions, put fractions in order, and go
from fractions to decimals, and fractions to percents.
Mrs. Mayo's Social Studies class is sailing
through the explorations of European explorers in North America.
They will take three assessments over these explorations during the
rest of November and December.
In Science the 5th graders are learning
about the characteristics of weather. We will learn about
temperature, air pressure, humidity, clouds, wind and
precipitation. After we learn what different weather
characteristics produce we will make different instruments to
collect and record weather conditions. We will then try being
Meteorologists and predict the weather. With the beginning of snow
we will have many changes to record and will have a fun time
predicting the first snow day.
