My reading class will be starting a language arts unit on figures of speech! The concepts that will be covered are:
This will be a good opportunity for your child’s creativity to come out through words!
My reading class has just finished a end-of-the-tirmester book commercial project. Their mission was to create a commercial and “sell” a book they read this trimester. The students had to include the following literary elements in their podcast: title, author, setting, characters (with descriptions), and plot. The students had to leave the listener with a suspending ending in order to get the listener interested! We worked with the fabulous Mrs. Brown (our technology integration collaborative teacher) who helped us put our book commercials in the podcast format. Please check them out…they are connected to the WD webpage under Classroom/Specialist Links (5th grade).
We are currently reading the book The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. I chose to read this novel with the kids because it ties in nicely to our Social Studies curriculum. We have been learning about colonization, and this book focuses around a young European boy and his family looking to make a home in Maine. This boy, Matt, is forced to survive on his own and is challenged to develop a relationship with a Native American boy.
The students have recently been doing some hands-on experiments in class. We have been setting up controlled experiments, finding/recording data, and drawing conclusions based on this data. We have also been reading about several scientists and how they used the scientific inquiry process to find things out about our world. This unit will come to a close shortly.
We are almost finished with our third mini unit. This unit has focused on volume, capacity, and weight. The students have learned the formula of finding volume (volume (v) = length (l) x width (w) x height (h)). They are also solving many real-life word problems in which the students need to read the problem, interpret the question, set up correct equations, and solve the problem correctly. We have also focused on converting units of measurement.
