This week we have been focusing on nonfiction text features. We spent 2 days going over the definitions of each and how they help readers. Students then had to search through nonfiction resources to find example.
In honor of President's Day, fifth grade is doing a research project on different presidents. Students where broken up into groups and they each selected a president. This year they are researching: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, William Taft and George W. Bush. They are mainly using non electronic resource materials to find out information on each of them. When they have all their information they will then trace one person and create a almost life size poster and display the information around their president, Stay tune to see the final product.
In social studies we are learning about the early explorers. Students used their scence of smell to identify foods that came from the New World such as corn, tomatoes and chocolate.
In science we began the month learning about simple machines. The students looked at everyday items and identified the simple machines that make it up. Students learned what a force is and learned about friction which will lead us into our motion and design Einstien kit. Mrs. Mathu came in and spent the morning with us and did some science exoeriments about Newton's 3 laws of motion which was a great introduction for our science kit.The students learned a lot and had a great time. For their final challenge the students had to build a bridge that could hold their textbooks. The second round of the challenge one group built a bridge that held over 39 books!
We are now working on our new science kit.
In reading we are working on visualizing while we read. Students had to illustrate a poem using what they pictured in their mind as they read it. We are also working on using evidence from the text to support our answers.
The Cake Walk is next Thursday Feb. 9th, this will also be the day for our Valentine's Day party. If students woukd kike they