Kids Food Basket (KFB)

We will be taking a trip to Kids Food Basket on Friday, January 20. We are not in need of chaperones, however if you would like to attend please contact Mrs. Frost. We will leave school at 8:50 and return by 11:45. We do have an early dismissal that day! Students will be released at 12:00 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. We do not have school on Monday, January 23! Be sure to ask your child about their experience!

Blog Survey

I will be sending home a blog usage survey if you follow our blog PLEASE be sure to complete it and return it to school promptly! Your participation is greatly appreciated! Miss Noble

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season filled with good times! Here is a look at some up coming topics and information. Miss Noble :)
Social Studies
We have completed our first unit. We are now focusing on the 13 colonies and the 3 colonial regions. We will learn about the differences and similarities, geography, climate, and politics of the colonies.

The students will watch videos, read from text books, interact on the computer, complete
some hands on projects during this unit. We will even learn a few songs :).

Science

We began our unit on Body Systems before break. It is a lengthy unit and therefore it will not be completed before the end of the semester. We have learned about the Skeletal, Muscular, Circulatory, & Respiratory systems. We will be learning about the Digestive, Nervous, and Excretory systems over the next few weeks. The test for this unit is quite extensive. We will spend a better part of a week reviewing. Please plan on studying at home!

The Science grade for the second marking period will be based on our Force and Motion unit.

Shopping with Frost, Huizen & Noble $$$$

Students shopped today! They had lots of fun spending their money! We will shop one more time before break. The students really do like buying toys and games...please consider going through gently used toys and games and donating them! Why wait to have a garage sale when you could make our 5th grade friends so happy? One person's junk is another's treasure! Here are a few of our happy customers holding/wearing some of their purchases!

Math Update

We have been working our way through Unit 3~Decimals and Graphs.  As mentioned at conferences, each child has a math note book that we use each and everyday to help us with organization and study habits. Thus far, we have learned how a decimal and a fractions are a part of a whole. We have worked on fractions as a decimal, less than, greater than and equal to, comparing to decimals, money, fractions, writing out decimal numbers in word form, word form to decimal numbers, adding and subtracting decimals (tricky lining those decimal up)!  But, most of all a lot with place value!!!  Keep practicing those multiplication facts at home:)

First Snow

As an adult I see snow and think of shoveling, driving on icy snow covered roads, and extra stuff (hats, gloves, snow pants, boots). However, children see those first snowflakes fall and there are gasps of excitement and anticipation! The holidays are coming, snowball fights, snowmen, sledding :) We often think of 5th graders as big kids, too big for so many things. They are not too big to be ecstatic about snowflakes :) If only as adults we could look as these simple things through the eyes of a child.

Force and Motion Experiments in Action

Our current science topic has been Force and Motion. We have spent the past weeks conducting experiments to better understand force, motion, friction, gravity, inertia, static electricity, magnetism, speed, and distance. All 3 classes have had fun with these hands on explorations of Force and Motion.