Book suggestions

Before we start we would like you to realize that everything we put on this page is 5th grade appropriate.

          

      We decided to put something fun on this blog to break that school feeling to a fun school feeling. We'll dig right in with books.

1. Phantom Tollbooth 

2. To Kill a Mockingbird

3. The Hunger Games (for kids age appropriate)

4. Inkheart

5. Running Out of Time

6. Gregor the Overlander series 

7. Night of the Twisters

8. Harry Potter series

9. Matilda

10. Call of the Wild

11. The Watsons Go to Birmingham

12. Life of Izzy (this book is special because it is written by one of the students in our class, Isabel Loney)

13. Tuck Neverlasting (this book is special because it is written by one of the students in our class,

Kate Bartle)

14. Out of My Mind

15. Where the Red Fern Grows

16. Fiction Is Real (this book is special because it is written by one of the students in our class, Lauren McKinley)

17. Heaven is for Real
18. Jessie's Failure (this book is special because it is written by one of the students in our class, Stephen Huan)
19. Once Upon My Death (this book is special because it is written by one of the students in our class, Morgan Orozco) 
20. Rise Of The Planet of the Doge (this book is special because it is written by one of the student in our class, Andrew Brierly)

SCIENCE

Health

     We have started our health books in which we will be learning about body growth and change and healthily eating, exercising, and not taking drugs. We will be talking about puberty, adolescence, hygiene, and emotional changes. Some of our students feel a little uncomfortable so they are welcome to read the books by themselves. 

     Soon we will be watching what they're calling 'the video', but Miss Hertlein will send a note home verifying the day. This is so they will not whisper about when we will watch it.  

SOCIAL STUDIES

   In Social Studies, our students have been separated into 5 groups. Each group is studying a subject from our social studies book, and then performing a short skit for our class about their subject with eye witnesses and reporter(s). The subjects are as follows: 

1. The Intolerable Acts

2. Boston Tea Party

3. Boston Massacre

4. Battle of Bunker Hill

5. The Continental Congress

MATH

     We have finished our math expressions books, and we are now reviewing things we have learned with Math 4 Today. We do a worksheet that's 16 questions and the next day we do a ten-question quiz. 
    Also, Miss Hertlein sent an email out to notify you about how we are having guest speakers who are the parents of children in 5th grade to talk to us about how they use math everyday in their jobs. This is because our 5th graders have been wondering how they use the math they're learning in everyday life or the jobs they will soon have. 
     

5th grade information

In math we just had a quick quiz on unit 7 lesson 1-4.

In science we are starting properties of matter. 

In social studies we are about to have our chapter 6 test.

Our book that we are reading is Stepping On The Cracks 

Our ski trip was rescheduled to Thursday, February 20, 2014.
   

Blog Post By: Alon   

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