5th grade first two weeks

Fifth graders were just ok for the first two weeks. Of course they had to spend some time get used to the new rules, schedules and expectation. They are now doing well, they know it is different know. They will not have a chance to fool around in the class doing nothing. They need to finish what they are supposed to do on time. If they didn't, there will be a consequence waiting for them. It won't be a punishment but it will be a chance for them to learn something from the mistake they made, such as spending time on talking instead of doing works.

The new system for learning math is combined by the document camera and the "Mathboard". The concepts for today will be taught and written by me and showed on the screen. They can exactly see how I write the process and how to use the pages on the notebook.

On the left is the Mathboard. It has been seperated by different themes that followed by the Colorado/National standard. For example, they are estimation, operations, decimal and fractions, algebra, geometry, probability and word problems. This board is mainly for review. They will have a chance to do similar concepts again and again every single day. They will also have chance to come up and teach other students on the whiteboard. It is a very powerful and great tool to make they keep the contents in their brain.

For science, we are haveing the Human Body for the first six weeks. We have done the digestive and musculoskeletal systems. In the science class they will have a lot of chance to draw. We will not draw it perfectly but it is fine, through the drawing process they will learn and have a better memory on the things they learned.

Although I am not asking them to make it perfect, but they should have everything on it. If there are two bones on the lower legs, then there should be two bones on the drawing.  They wiil read the notes and see the drawing at the same time.

Sorry for the late updates, it was busy for the first two weeks. I will update every week for now on.