Students are engaging each other and poetry in a different and more challenging way with silent conversations. Students were discussing the poem with each other without speaking placing the emphasis on writing and reading.
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Use the following resources from Scholastic Scope for your classwork on Thursday and Friday. After exploring these resources, you are free to do searches of your own to better understand what it is like to climb Everest.
Resource 1: An amazing infographic about what it’s like to climb Mount Everest, including audio of climbers talking about their experiences. Resource 2: A video explaining plate tectonics and the Nepal earthquake. Resource 3: A gallery of photos and reflections from Everest climbers. Resource 4: A photo gallery of the history of climbing Mt. Everest. My fifth grade aliens received quite a surprise today. Coded messages from sixth grade Earthlings AND slime! The kids are having such a great time decoding the replies. Thanks Mrs Ogden and sixth grade science! Students had their first fine dining experience at Eat-Z-Bug. They started off with mealworm and bamboo worm appetizers followed by a buffet of termites, ants, crickets, grasshoppers, sago worms, dung beetles, and June Beetles. After dinner desserts included cricket flour chocolate chip cookies, chocolate covered super worms, and Chirps Chips washed down with a healthy sip of bug-a-poop tea. What faces! Today students spent some time in the MILL researching the topic of entomophagy to follow up on last week's Scholastic Scope article "Would You Eat This?" After conducting research today, students will participate in our bug eating experience tomorrow. What better way to enjoy Friday clubs than with a little yoga! I love sharing one of my interests with these young ladies, and I am grateful they are willing to sweat it out with me every other Friday.
This week fifth graders read Scholastic Scope's article "Are We Alone?" They then conducted some alien research and wrote persuasive essays as to whether or not they believe alien life exists out there in the universe. The students then broke into teams, wrote their own alien code languages, developed cryptogram messages, and sent them off to Earthlings in sixth grade science. We look forward to getting cryptograms back from the Earthlings later this year! This week students had the chance to kick off persuasive writing by writing, performing, and filming healthy habit commercials. Information on a wide range of topics was shared. See some of the highlights below. (All student YouTube videos are unlisted) Today students used prepositional phrases to add detail to and expand sentences. Students then used Microsoft Teams to post their work as well as edit and review the work of others. Since we were able to get our hands on enough iPads today, all students were able to participate and post their own work.
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