Homecoming Week!!

CRAZY SOCKS!!

BLACK OUT DAY!!

5TH AND 6TH GRADE TEACHERS AT THEIR BEST!!

Math Fun!!

In Math we have been working on many different concepts. This week we are working on different algorithms for multiplication. As many of you have probably already realized in Everyday Math, we use many different ways to compute multiplication as well as other operations. I am still seeing students struggle with basic addition and multiplication facts. As I explain to the students, everything we do builds upon these facts and not knowing these facts only makes each thing we do more challenging. In school we have been playing some games to help us build these facts. The pictures show students playing a multiplication game very similar to Slap Jack. This can be played at home with a regular deck of cards to help students practice basic facts. Also on the right side of this blog are some websites that can be used to help students practice these facts.

Thanks for all you do to help our students be successful!

Daily 5

We have been busy learning and practicing our routines for Daily 5. We do two rounds each day during our Language Arts block and students have gotten very good at knowing what they are suppose to do during each round. I am very pleased with how well we are doing with each of these. These pictures show students during "Read to Someone".  We have also been learning new comprehension during the CAFE portion of our reading block. Some of the strategies we have been working on include Prior Knowledge which we use the connections Text-to-Self, Text-to-World, and Text-to-Text. Students are getting very good at using these strategies.

THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS!

Welcome to 5th grade at Manson-Northwest Webster. I am looking forward to a new and exciting year as we begin a new journey in the school year 2011-2012.

I started this blog last year, but unfortunately I did not do a very good job of keeping it up-to-date. I would like to utilize this blog as a better way to communicate with students and parents. It is my hope that as we get started into this new year that students will have some ownership in it and be able to post items on this blog as well. This is a new experience for me so I am open to suggestions. As a parent of a student in my class, if you have anything in particular that you would like to see on this blog, please let me know. I really hope that this will be a way for parents to be better informed about what is going on in our classroom.

Our school year has been off to a great start! We are learning my new routines as we adjust to life in the 5th grade.

Please be sure to check this blog to find out what is happening in our classroom.

Looking forward to a great year with your students.

Mrs. Thomas