ECO DIORAMA EXCELLENCE

I had the honor of viewing super great work today.  Check out the Eco Dioramas below.  These will be hanging in the hallway for all to see fiction plot connections and nonfiction setting facts.  Next in reading will be an examination of nonfiction features combined with a study of the solar system.  Speaking of the solar system: more great work on the moon phase assessment!  We will try to have these graded and in the Friday Folders this week.  Students will also have a small quiz in social studies and fraction addition/subtraction this week.  To solidify the fraction addition and subtraction concepts, students are using cuisenaire rod models along with the algorithm.  Tomorrow we will upload some photos of mathmagicians using these helpful, fun manipulatives.  Finally, fun brings me to science today where all 5th graders transplanted our chard plants to pots.  You can check out some pics of our outdoor work on the Gardens as Ecosystems link. We will start graphing our data for the soil experiment using Microsoft excel to help us craft our conclusions.