11th-13th Week= Mrs. Jones forgot her homework!

I am so sorry for the delay in posting! Here are a few things we have been working on:

We played "Decimal Monster Dash" on Halloween and the students did a great job! They were very creative with their monsters. 

Today they played "Decimal Turkey Dash", and I was very impressed with their turkeys. 

In Religion, we have been watching "I Am Second" videos, and finishing up Unit 2. The past few weeks we have really been focusing on Martin Luther and other leaders God used from the Bible. We will finish Unit 2 next week, and have an assessment soon after.

We wrapped up decimal multiplication this week, and will begin decimal division next week. I believe we have started a tradition with the Decimal Dash. The students are already wondering what they will draw for Christmas! 

We finished Mixed-Up Files, and I have to say that the museums were AMAZING! I love seeing each student's creativity shine! We focused on non-fiction texts again, and went more in-depth with connecting with them. We have now began our first fantasy book of the year, The BFG, by Roald Dahl. He was an interesting man! We read a biography about him, and now are a little way into the book. Our poetry unit is complete, and I enjoyed reading all the student's poetry books. We are now learning about verbs. We made an "Angry Verbs" board that shows "Angry Birds" as action verbs, and the pigs as helping verbs. We will talk about verb tenses next week. 

We also wrapped up biomes this week in Science. This week we will be going to the McWane Center, and starting our brainstorming for our project. 

We are still making our way through the 13 Colonies in History. 

Hope you all have a good weekend! I will see you bright and early Monday morning for the field trip! 

For a bonus punch, tell me what you want our "Celebrate Science" project to be. 

Love, 

Mrs. Jones

9th and 10th Week= Patriotic and Cold

Last week we had a drizzly, cool day at American Village. We all really enjoyed our time here, and we are really getting to our colonies in History now. 

I also enjoyed our meetings at Parent Teacher Conferences on Friday. I was glad to be able to get to know you all a little better. 

During Religion this week we worked on our banner for Reformation Sunday and we started a book to learn more about Reformation. 

We are still moving along in reading The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I am excited to see what the students are creating with their museums! 

In Science, we are starting biome research projects next week. The students will also create their own ecosystems if we can collect enough 2-liter bottles! 

We are studying Colonial America in History right now. 

In math we are working hard on multiplication and will be starting multiplying decimals next week. 

We are still working on our Poetry books! We are writing Limerick and Diamanté poems this week. 

Don't forget! Sunday is Reformation Sunday at 3:00pm. Fall Festival is Thursday night 5-8 and it's free! November 5th is Chik-Fil-A spirit night. November 15th is our McWane field trip. 

Congratulations to all students who recieved awards today! 

 

Thank you so much for all the love on my birthday! I love you all! 

Love, 

Mrs. Jones

"He must become greater, I must become less." John 3:30

8th week= Fall Weather!

Last week was an interesting week for Mrs. Jones. I had my 2nd ever stomach "bug" which stayed longer than it was welcome! I apologize for being out on Tuesday, but the students recieved a great report from the sub! 

In Religion, we are talking about the Holy Spirit. We will also be talking about Reformation, and working on our banner. 

In Math, we have finished up expressions and variables. We will touch briefly on mean, median, and mode this week. 

In Reading we started From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. We will be working a lot with characterization in this book. Next week, we will begin a project titled Establish a Museum, where students will make their own museums! The possibilities are endless and I can't wait to see all those creative minds working! This week they are working on a business letter to the "Met" in New York City. 

We have been working on Poetry in Language. Your students are making their own books, and will share some poems with the class when we are finished. So far we have done Acrostic, Free Verse, and Haiku. 

We are finishing up our assessments on the human body this week and will begin ecosystems. The students will be assigned an ecosystem in groups and will make a food web. 

The explorer reports are due Wednesday in Social Studies, and next week we will do our oral presentations. Make sure to read the guidelines! We are also learning the Preamble, and other neat facts before we go to American Village on Thursday.

**We will meet at school at 7:15 am on Thursday morning. We will leave by 7:20 am. Please bring a sack lunch! I will also have directions printed for each vehicle and the address for GPS. 

For a bonus punch, tell me what museum (anywhere in the world) you would love to visit and why, or a museum you have visited before and enjoyed. 

Love, 

Mrs. Jones

"He must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30

7th week= Scary!!

We started off the week with Sophia's pet tarantula Charlotte. I faced my fear of tarantulas for sure! 

In Religion this week we reviewed for our Unit 1 test and also did some Bible rebus puzzles. Here is a picture of our Six Chief Parts of Christian Discipline and our crosses we made in Art with oil pastels:

In Science, we worked on our human body projects and finished our life size systems. You all did such a great job!

 

In Social Studies, we finished up Chapter 2 and began our Explorer Reports. 

Math was filled with finishing up some basics of decimals, and beginning expressions, variables, and equations. We are doing some basic algebra! 

We began the first book of Monitoring Comprehension, and we will finish it this week. We will begin a new read-aloud. 

Exciting news! We were chosen to participate in the Celebrate Science program for the McWane Center in Birmingham! We get to make a science project that will be judged. We also get 2 FREE field trips and if we win we get money for our school! I am super excited about this, because we LOVE science! 

Don't forget: American Village field trip is the 17th! October 27th is Reformation Sunday at 3:30, and Fall Festival is the 31st from 5-7! 

For a bonus punch, tell me what genre you would like to read as a class for a read-aloud this year. (Example- science fiction, action, adventure, etc..)

Have a great weekend! See you Monday! 

Love, 

Mrs. Jones

6th Week= Extraordinary!

To start off the week I attended the fair, and I saw one of our own's drawing on the wall! 

Go Gabby!!! 

Religion- This week we focused on the 2nd and 3rd Commandment. Next week we will not have a memory verse because we will have our unit test on Friday. 

Social Studies- We began and ended with our explorers. This week we will finish up chapter 2 and begin an explorer report. This will be worked on at home, and at school. 

Science- We are still working on the human body system projects. We are in groups working on a group project. We will try to finish these this week, but it may take us into the next week. You may have noticed Jeffrey coming home with some of you. The students all want to take him home so we are taking turns. Just please be sure to bring him back with all parts in his little home! 

Reading- We finished up Abduction this week, and some students don't know where to go from here. They loved it so much that they wanted me to get another book like it! I love this spirit! This week we will work on monitoring comprehension, then we will begin another chapter book after we finish some of our reading strategies. We will also begin a poetry unit. The students will make a poetry book! 

Math- We worked hard on division strategies this week. Next week we will take a chapter test on decimals and division. Then we will start on expressions and variables. 

We really appreciated the DARE officer and Mr. Bales coming to talk to us about subjects covered in Abduction. Thank you!

Don't forget about the talent show Tuesday night, Oktoberfest next Saturday, and the field trip October 17th. 

Have a great weekend!

Love, 

Mrs. Jones

"HE must become greater, I must become less." John 3:30

Picture Day!

I forgot to include that tomorrow is picture day! So, don't forget to brush your teeth and smile pretty😁!

6th Week= Efficient!

This week we made a lot of progress! We are sailing along in 5th grade, and I am enjoying every second of this journey!

This week in religion we talked about the difference between Law and Gospel. We also took a survey of how well we follow the Ten Commandments and learned that we all are sinners! We spent time on the first Commandment (a few days actually), and next week we will talk about a few more of the Commandmebts in depth.

We finished up decimal subtraction and addition today by making a menu from a local restaurant and we had to spend at least $70 but not over $75. The students definitely had to stretch their appetites a bit! Next week we will work on division and take a chapter test on decimals and division. 

We are reading Abduction in reading. The students are VERY engulfed with this story. They beg to read more chapters every day, which in return makes their teacher happy! We are using different reading graphic organizers to work on strategies, and this week they wrote a prediction of what they believe will happen. We will also finish up our grammar unit this week and have a test. 

In Social Studies we finished our project this week and presented them to Mrs. Ninke. I am so proud of 5th grade. They really did a wonderful job! Next week we will begin chapter 2 in our Journey to America book. We will have a Southeastern region quiz on Tuesday. 

We took out chapter 1 test in science this week, and now we will focus more on the human body systems. I feel that this is an important concept, and it is a standard on our course of study. However; it isn't covered much in our textbooks so we will be using different materials to study the different systems. 

Each week students will fill out a nonfiction text graphic organizer for a test grade in Social Studies. They will use their Scholastic Weekly Reader. The students filled out their first one today. 

I am very excited about all that we are doing in 5th grade, and our upcoming field trip. You should receive a field trip note on Monday. 

We are enjoying our new iPad! The students played a game this week named Presidents vs. Aliens, and they also explored the NASA app. We will use them this week to do some math projects we will be working on. 

For a bonus punch, show someone in your household a rebus we did this week. Comment below which one you used!