This Week In Room102

We have finished the ELA section of MCAS and all of the students worked very hard. I was very proud of each and every one of them! We have a bit of a break before the next round of math and then science in May. So for now, it is back to the normal day in our classroom.

As you read last week, we have been studying the different traditional literature types. The students have organized and classified different book genres. This past week they took all of the information they gathered and began creating posters. Stay tuned to see the final products or better yet, stop outside our classroom to take a look and see them in person. We aren't quite done just yet though. Give us a few more days.  Once the posters are finished, the students will be working independently to create something of their own. This you will have to wait for, but it will be worth the wait! Take a look to see your children hard at work.

Nick, Harry, and Sydney all working hard on their poster drafts.

Matthew and Cooper discussing the myths and the characteristic to include in their poster.

Uma and Tori deep in discussion about a castle, a donut clock, and fairy tales!

Abby and Madi each adding a touch to the draft.

Did someone say pictures? Katie and Kate stopping for a photo shoot.

Ryan, James, and Jack all working cooperatively on a draft.

Sebbie starting the draft -Teddie had to leave for a minute!

We have also been working diligently in math learning how to accurately measure and label angles. We have also learned that the sum of all triangles is 180 degrees. Ask your child about the hands on activity that we did to prove that the sum of all triangles always equals 180 degrees. Ask them to prove it to you.

Please keep a look out for a permission slip to Concord and Lexington the week of April 9th.  We will be going with Mrs. Lantz class. And if you have not returned the permission slip for the Great Body Works movie please do soon.

A Day In The Life Of A Fifth Grader!

This past week we were all busy with MCAS and new projects.  Tori has written about a writing lesson in our class.  This is the first part of a bigger project.  Stay tuned to see the final outcome!

A Day in the Life of a Fifth Grader: Writing Wizards

     During a writing period, the Boucherettes have been working on finding the difference between legends, folk tales, tall tales, fairy tales, fables, and myths. Mrs. Boucher has separated each student into groups where they use their graphic organizers to categorize each book genre. In these organizers, the students pick a book from each genre and then fill in the facts in the packet that each genre has to offer. Not all the genres have the same categories. For example: Legends most of the time have heroes, but fairy tales don't. Although the students are all part of a group, they can't read the same books as their partners. If two students read the same book with smaller stories inside of it, that is okay. The class has spent the entire week of March 17th working on this packet, but this is just the beginning. This organizer is just a brainstorming organizer, so there is still more writing on its way. Who knows what Mrs. Boucher has in store for the Boucherettes. (Tori, guest blogger)

Below is the final project for our non-fiction text feature's project.  The students were all responsible for writing and speaking about a different text feature.  They did a great job!  Click on the link below to watch.

Text Features from Mrs. Klipfel on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for another Day in the Life with another guest writer!