First Week in Room 18
Welcome back friends! It is time to get back to our routine and back to learning! We had an amazing first week at Mountain View in 5th grade! We worked on morning meeting routines and building community. We started building our reading stamina and created our personal book boxes. We…
Hello from Alaska!
Hello all! Welcome to our 5th grade class blog! Students, you will be using this blog often, so please take some time to become familiar with it. Parent, this blog is a great way for you to see what we are doing in class. Visitors, be sure to check back…
We were spies for a day!
This last week of 3rd quarter we practiced our mapping skills. We worked on latitude and longitude, scales and distances, elevation and even learned where many countries are. After lots of practice, we put our skills to work on Thursday by completing a Spy Mission. There were 6 total missions…
Who knew seeds could grow without light!
Over the last quarter we have spent lots of time learning about plant tropisms. We learned that plants respond to different stimuli; light, gravity, water. We did an experiment with mustard seeds, a damp paper towels and baggies. After placing our mustard seeds on a damp paper towel and into…
Proud Teacher Moment!
My 6th graders were given the assignment to create a model of a plant cell and an animal cell. This was an at-home project, so I really had no idea what they were creating. Obviously, I had some conversations with students over the last month, but for the most part…