Monday, April 27

We are beginning our chapter on Measurement today in Math. Homework is a Math scavenger hunt at home. They have to identify objects that are about an inch, foot, and yard long and identify 3 places that are about 1 mile from their house. We wrote limericks today. Some students volunteered to bring cookies to our Poetry Cafe on Thursday. Hope to see you all there.

Friday, April 24th

Happy Friday!! Today we turned in our Poetry Books. I hope to see you all at our Poetry Cafe next Thursday afternoon. We are wrapping fractions in Math and will be starting our chapter on Measurement next week. Have a great weekend!

Thursday, April 16

Happy Thursday! We took our Chapter 7 math test today and also our quiz in Library. If you have not already sent your report card envelope back to school, please do so. Thanks. Tomorrow we have a special guest visiting our school. His name is Rusty and we watch his videos every morning. We are so excited to have him visit our class. Tomorrow is "Wear one color day".

Wednesday, April 15

Today we reviewed for our Chapter 7 math test which is tomorrow. We did a special writing project for Miss Felton, who will be leaving us next week. Progress reports went home today and don't forget to finish your spelling homework tonight.

Have a fantastic evening little diamonds!

Tuesday, April 14

Welcome back to school! In Spelling we took our Pre-test for lesson 28. We are studying words with prefixes. We continued working on our changing strip for Hatchet and we took our Essential Skills Test in Math. We also had the computer lab today and the students were working on their poetry books. Just a reminder that their Poetry Books are due on Friday, April 24th. If you have not sent back the report card envelope, please do so. If you sold Little Caesar's Pizza, those orders must be picked up on Wednesday, April 15 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Thanks! Have a great evening!

Thursday, April 9

We read Chapter 11 in Hatchet today and worked on logic problems in Math. We continued working in our groups on our Biome poster which we will present next week. Have a fabulous weekend.

Wednesday, April 8

Hello chipmunks (and families)!

Class pictures went home today! Everyone looked dashing. :)

Report cards for Third Quarter will be coming home tomorrow.

Book orders are due tomorrow, Thursday the 9th. We will also have our drawing to celebrate no missing work. There will be some extra-special prizes in there!

Don't forget, there is no school this Friday the 10th or Monday the 13th.

Secret question: Tell Ms. Felton or Mrs. Alwood what your plans are for the long weekend!

Tuesday, April 7

Happy Tuesday! Today we finished our NWEA Math test and everyone worked so hard. In Reading we compared ourselves to Brian, the main character in Hatchet. In Science we worked in groups researching a biome. We will present these posters on Thursday. Book orders are due on Thursday and no school on Friday! Have a great night.

Monday, April 6

Today we took the Reading and Language NWEA tests. We will be taking the math test tomorrow. We had the computer lab and worked on our Poetry books this afternoon. These books are due on April 24th. They will have time in class to work on them and they can also work on them at home. In math we practiced writing fractions in simplest form by finding the greatest common factor. The only homework they have is their math sheet if they did not finish it during class. They also have their 20 minutes of reading. Have a great night!

April 3

Happy Friday to all! Ask your child about what kind of animal they dreamed about last night and what did they do. This was a fun writing activity we did in Language today. Biomes was the topic in Science today. Next week we will be doing the NWEA tests. We will test on Monday and Tuesday morning. Have a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday.

April 2

Hello everyone! This is Ms. Felton, Mrs. Alwood's student teaching, doing my first blog posting.

Today was a great day in 5th grade! We did more work with fractions and made equivalent fraction sets. Yesterday's practice with following directions came in handy! :) We also started making posters for science that show different types of producers, consumers, and decomposers. It is due tomorrow, along with WS 59 and page 413, #11-20 for math.

I am having a wonderful time with this class. I feel so lucky to have been placed here for my student teaching!

See you tomorrow, chipmunks! :)

Ms. Felton

April 1

Happy April Fools Day! Ask your child about the April Fools Pop Test they had today. Not too many of them passed. (Ha Ha) We visited the Book Fair today and the children had a chance to browse. The Book Fair will be open until Friday at noon. We worked with fraction bars today and we found equivalent fractions. Wednesday envelopes went home today, please check out what is in them. Homework is Spelling proofreading wkst and Math Spiral Review 7-13. Have a good night!

Mystery Question: When you come to school in the morning, tell Mrs. Alwood or Miss Felton a fraction that is equivalent to 1/3?