Fifth and Ten: Picture Review of our Year (PART 3)

GRAMMAR PROJECTS (again):

Fifth graders used the document camera and their computers to create a power point slideshow of action figures and prepositions. They took pictures of each preposition taking place, uploaded them to the computer, and created a power point slideshow with the pictures and prepositional phrases. Then, they shared!

WRITING WORKSHOP STATIONS:

Students edited and revised their work in stations. Each station had little checklists and prompts for focusing on a different aspect of editing.

CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD:

Students went around the school reading passages about how different cultures celebrate Christmas. As they read, they jotted down notes. Then, they wrote a 5 - 7 sentence paragraph summary about what they read for each country. Great lesson on reading, writing, and social studies all in one!

CLOSE READING:

This year, we practiced close reading, where students take specific notes on a passage, and read it more than once. It's a great way to solidify understanding of a passage that may be in a student's frustration level, or just beyond their full comprehension.

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS:

We...

- tested blood types to see which can be save for donors and receivers

- did a HUGE human body group project where each team took a different body system and became experts. One student in each group was either the professor, dietitian, physical trainer, or doctor.

- tested the effectiveness of all 6 simple machines through experiments and tests that followed the scientific method

- created rockets to test Newton's third law of relativity

- became red blood cells and traveled through an enormous body in the gymnasium, picking up waste, dropping off oxygen, and much more

- created our own cookie islands including each landform we learned about

- tested the effects of erosion and deposition in stream tables

I'm sure there's much more, but my brain is already on over-load!