MOCA -Reflections on Kaleidoscope Day
HW-due Friday Write a reflection on the Blog about Kaleidoscope Day. What did you find the most interesting or intriguing in the museum and why? Describe in one sentence your experience on Tuesday.
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We Skyped with Mike Fisher!
Written by: Benjamin C We had a skype call with Mike Fisher, a children’s poet. We had the skype call because Mr. Fisher is allowing us to illustrate one of his poems, chosen by our teacher. In the...
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Wacky wacky words
Today, we were checking our Twitter feed in class. We noticed that Mike Fisher had mentioned us in a blog post. We opened up his link to read the blog post. As we began to read, we noticed...
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Top Science Fair Reflections
Our school just had the Science Fair last week. It was a great experience for our 5th graders. The students were put in teams and given topics to complete for their first science fair. Here are a...
View ArticleBook Trailers
This nine weeks, each 5th grader will be creating their own book trailer to post on his/her blog. Here are a couple completed trailers. I’m sure Gil and Rebecca would love your feedback.
View ArticleTerrific Trailers
Here are a few of the 5th graders’ book trailers. The rest will be posted soon.
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Speed Geeking
I feel overwhelming pride and joy for my 4th and 5th graders that chose to do the “Speed Geeking” at EdJEWcon. They all did such a fabulous job, and I heard from so many people how impressive they...
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What is Language Arts?
In building the foundation for a year of learning in the language arts classroom I feel it is important to connect students to the big picture. What is language arts? In school, language arts often...
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The Week in Review
This week’s blog post is brought to you by some of our fabulous 5th grade student bloggers. Please visit their individual blogs to read more and to comment. All These Skype Calls!!! Posted on September...
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New Jobs for Kids
This week in fifth grade there are….. New Jobs for Kids! Mrs. Hernandez looked at our applications online. After she looked, she picked which person deserved which job. I got Official Scribe (by...
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Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? What Do We Do in Rotations?
In social studies class, we are learning about Christopher Columbus. My teacher, Mrs. Zavon, found an article about his secret life. They think that Columbus was secretly a Jew. They found letters to...
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Our SLC’s!!!
On Friday and Wednesday everyone had their SLC. If you don’t know what an SLC is, it stands for student led conference. Everyone is writing a reflection on their SLC. You had to answer certain...
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There Are Words Everywhere!
This week we learned about everything you need to write in a persuasive essay. For a persuasive essay you need, facts, your opinion, links, and much more. We also have been finishing up our pictures...
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TGIF!
Next week, on Wednesday the 11th, our class is having a mystery Skype call. That means we won’t know who we are going to Skype with. Mostly everyone in our class is very excited! Meanwhile, we are...
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More “Caught Being Kind”
In 5th grade, we have two student “kindness ambassadors.” This is a job for which students apply and receive a salary. The jobs switch approximately once a month. Currently, our Kindness Ambassadors...
View ArticleDaily 3 In Action
I created this short video reflection about the Daily 3. It is an amazing structure for authentic literacy that helps me meet the needs of each individual student.
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Pack Up the Badges & Get Ready for Passover
Passover is coming up. I can’t wait! Passover is my favorite holiday. What is yours? Almost every year at school we do some sort of a Passover Seder. One of the projects is to create a story on our...
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Be a Positive Person with Jon Gordon!
On Wednesday Jon Gordon came to our class. Jon Gordon is the author of some amazing books such as The Energy Bus, Soup, Training Camp, The Positive Dog, The Shark and the Goldfish, The Seed, and The No...
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Welcome to 5th Grade Language Arts!
It’s so wonderful being back with my fabulous 4th graders from last year….except now they are phenomenal 5th graders! We did a lot during language arts this week. I intend to have the students take...
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Student Reflections: Language Arts
This week we had two “official” documentarians, Allie and Julia. Look what they created to document our learning: Everyone else practiced the blogger job by posting a written reflection of the week’s...
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