We are down to the wire here.

 

Important dates:

Wed, June 10: Math EOG

Thurs, June 11: Language Arts EOG

Tues, June 16: Science EOG

 

Mon, June 29: 5th grade graduation ceremony

The ceremony will start at 9am.  Please be seated before that (around 8:45ish) because we have to close the doors and start the ceremony promptly at 9.  The ceremony will take place in the Gym.  Afterwards there will be a short reception, and report cards will be handed out.  If you would like to check your student out after that, you are welcome to do so.

 

So, we have just over a week until EOGs start.  That means we are doing quite a bit of review this week.  For that reason, students are assigning themselves their own homework this week.  We are spending our time during the day mostly at centers and doing small groups, and identifying what we still need to figure out before we leave 5th grade.

This week is good practice for middle school.  Learning how to identify what you still need to study and work on, and then using your time wisely on those things, is a skill that they will use throughout the rest of their lives.

 

Students have a list of objectives, and they have rated themselves on what they do and do not yet understand in regards to fifth grade topics.  Then, based upon what they still need work on, they are assigning themselves pages in motivation math and motivation reading to work on.  Here is the list of pages they have assigned themselves tonight (with initials only):

Review Week Self Assigned Homework

Students should be spending their homework time each night really focusing on these topics, and trying their best to figure out what is still confusing them.  We will continue this throughout the week.

 

We spent some of our day in the computer lab, learning about the different things we can do with a word document to spruce up our poetry.  We talked about moving things around, text boxes, making things transparent, grouping, ordering, wrapping, and all that little stuff.  Students started making a short poem about an object, and using the things we have learned to either form their poem into the shape of that object, or to emboss their poem above a clip art picture of the object.  They have some really neat ideas!

 

In Science we stayed in the computer lab and played some more with forces, acceleration, and speed.  We talked a great deal about how acceleration is the CHANGE in speed over time.  This means that an acceleration of zero means speed is not changing.  It does not mean the speed is zero.  If you are moving at a constant speed, your acceleration is zero.  If you are speeding up, you have a positive acceleration.  If you are slowing down, you have a negative acceleration.

If you want to play with it some more, the website is here.

Students should completely finish their ecosystems review sheet tonight for homework.

 

so, tl;dr

Do the homework you assigned yourself!  If you don’t remember what YOU assigned YOURSELF, then here is a cheat sheet:

Review Week Self Assigned Homework

Also, finish your ecosystems review packet!

AND READ!!!

 

Have a good one,

 

-Mr. Potter