Ken Caryl Shadow Day: Tomorrow is Ken Caryl Shadow Day. If your child is participating, you will need to check him/her in between 7:00-7:15 am and pick them up at 1:1:00 am to drop your child off at Coronado for the remainder of the day. Many students have carpooled in the past to help parents get to work on time and that’s not a problem for the check in. I will be in the classroom at Coronado as students return at 11:00ish, and we will resume our day once we’re back together as a class. If your child is not participating in Shadow Day, I’ll be here at Coronado starting at the normal 8:05 bell.
There is a parent information session with the principal for those who are able to stay from 7:30-8:30 AM.
Sock Drive: Coronado is continuing to collect new socks for children and adults in need of warm toes this season. We will collect through December 15th.
NCAR Field Trip: Just a reminder that our weather field trip to NCAR is coming up next week on December 13th. Students will need to pack a lunch and be prepared for whatever weather we get on that morning as some of our lab work will take us outside.
Gingerbread Construction: As we gear up for the December holidays, 5th grade has a fun activity planned for the last week of school before break. During our last math unit we studied area and perimeter of composite shapes and we’ve worked on fun engineering skills, problem solving, and collaboration throughout our Genius/AI hour. We would like to build on that learning by having the students create a “gingerbread” house made out of graham crackers and candies. They will be drawing blueprints and constructing these model houses in the classroom. The students will be required to use measurement tools and their knowledge of area and perimeter to construct their houses.
We need your help preparing with this activity. Each child will need something to use as scaffolding for stability (ex. a tissue box or other cardboard that can be cut apart, a paper towel roll, etc). Each student will also need a cardboard platform, no bigger than 12 by 12 inches, covered in tinfoil. We would also appreciate if each child could donate one bag of candy, one container of white frosting and graham crackers (no generic crackers please; generics crumble, break and our creations end up condemned due to structural damage) for the whole class to use. Candy and frosting can be generic.
Here are some candies kids have enjoyed using in years past: M&Ms, Skittles. Tootsie Rolls, peppermint sticks and rounds, gum balls, licorice rope, Starbursts, Sugar Cubes Gum Drops, Lifesavers, Hershey’s Kisses, Pretzels (not a candy but great for decoration),
Anything else you can think of that would work as decoration for a gingerbread structure would also be great! Thanks so much for helping our class get ready for some holiday fun!
Please send in supplies on or before December 18th.
Here’s what we’re up to in class:
Math: We’ve been working on looking for patterns to find the rules for decimal movement when multiplying and dividing decimals. This has also caused us to do some work with multiplication and division strategies like using the standard American algorithm to multiply and long division to divide.
Literacy: We are working in small groups and have returned to a focus on narrative texts. Our goal is to identify theme and main idea support them with text evidence. We will work on text evidence analysis through some Socratic seminar discussions. To collect evidence we will continue working with close reading strategies and note taking as we read.
Writing: Our next writing genre moves from procedural writing to informational writing with an intent to teach about a topic we are experts on. We will be connecting this to our upcoming learn about Revolutionary War era America. We are beginning by looking at note taking and research strategies.
Science: We will be studying climate and how geography affects weather. We will then look at ways we can predict weather by analyzing trends and using tools to measure things like temperature, wind direction, air pressure, etc.
Social Studies: We played a game that simulated planning, traveling, and landing at a new colony in America. We learned that no matter how well colonists planned, many factors beyond their control made starting a successful colony incredibly difficult. We experienced hardships from weather, crop failure, unreliable captains and transport, and disease. Knowing that colonization was not for the weak, we started talking about the factors that would push or pull colonists into taking the risk.
There is a parent information session with the principal for those who are able to stay from 7:30-8:30 AM.
Sock Drive: Coronado is continuing to collect new socks for children and adults in need of warm toes this season. We will collect through December 15th.
NCAR Field Trip: Just a reminder that our weather field trip to NCAR is coming up next week on December 13th. Students will need to pack a lunch and be prepared for whatever weather we get on that morning as some of our lab work will take us outside.
Gingerbread Construction: As we gear up for the December holidays, 5th grade has a fun activity planned for the last week of school before break. During our last math unit we studied area and perimeter of composite shapes and we’ve worked on fun engineering skills, problem solving, and collaboration throughout our Genius/AI hour. We would like to build on that learning by having the students create a “gingerbread” house made out of graham crackers and candies. They will be drawing blueprints and constructing these model houses in the classroom. The students will be required to use measurement tools and their knowledge of area and perimeter to construct their houses.
We need your help preparing with this activity. Each child will need something to use as scaffolding for stability (ex. a tissue box or other cardboard that can be cut apart, a paper towel roll, etc). Each student will also need a cardboard platform, no bigger than 12 by 12 inches, covered in tinfoil. We would also appreciate if each child could donate one bag of candy, one container of white frosting and graham crackers (no generic crackers please; generics crumble, break and our creations end up condemned due to structural damage) for the whole class to use. Candy and frosting can be generic.
Here are some candies kids have enjoyed using in years past: M&Ms, Skittles. Tootsie Rolls, peppermint sticks and rounds, gum balls, licorice rope, Starbursts, Sugar Cubes Gum Drops, Lifesavers, Hershey’s Kisses, Pretzels (not a candy but great for decoration),
Anything else you can think of that would work as decoration for a gingerbread structure would also be great! Thanks so much for helping our class get ready for some holiday fun!
Please send in supplies on or before December 18th.
Here’s what we’re up to in class:
Math: We’ve been working on looking for patterns to find the rules for decimal movement when multiplying and dividing decimals. This has also caused us to do some work with multiplication and division strategies like using the standard American algorithm to multiply and long division to divide.
Literacy: We are working in small groups and have returned to a focus on narrative texts. Our goal is to identify theme and main idea support them with text evidence. We will work on text evidence analysis through some Socratic seminar discussions. To collect evidence we will continue working with close reading strategies and note taking as we read.
Writing: Our next writing genre moves from procedural writing to informational writing with an intent to teach about a topic we are experts on. We will be connecting this to our upcoming learn about Revolutionary War era America. We are beginning by looking at note taking and research strategies.
Science: We will be studying climate and how geography affects weather. We will then look at ways we can predict weather by analyzing trends and using tools to measure things like temperature, wind direction, air pressure, etc.
Social Studies: We played a game that simulated planning, traveling, and landing at a new colony in America. We learned that no matter how well colonists planned, many factors beyond their control made starting a successful colony incredibly difficult. We experienced hardships from weather, crop failure, unreliable captains and transport, and disease. Knowing that colonization was not for the weak, we started talking about the factors that would push or pull colonists into taking the risk.