Today we practiced our comparing and ordering decimal skills in a Scoot Task Card Activity. Students were given a few strategies to choose from and our overall success rate was great! In science we used food coloring to see how molecules mov in cold, hot, and room temperature water. Measuring the water temperature with Go Temp thermometers was cool!
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And Today in math we worked on comparing and ordering decimals. We shaded in grids to compare decimal representations. Once we felt confident in our skills, we ordered decimal cards with our learning group. After we had the correct least to greatest order, we joined another learning group, and finally we ordered ALL the cards!! Math is marvelous! The unicorn was from indoor recess, the kids were very proud of it.
our class worked on a web quest about matter that required students to review information and answer questions from several websites through videos and interactive investigations. In math, we used an "edible math manipulative" to help us understand fractional place value and compare decimal sizes. It was a SWEET lesson! Today, we played memory with decimal place value to help us solidify our ability to read and write decimals. Students had to match the number form of a decimal to its word form.For our matter unit, we made play dough and discussed its physical properties as well as how it changes with the addition of heat. Next we used our play dough as an item in our matter lab, where we tested the physical properties of several items. We tested the properties of mass, magnetism, conductivity, solubility, and relative density.
Today in class, learning groups worked together to build two boats. One boat that would float and one boat that would sink. Students worked very hard cooperatively and the creations were amazing! Unfortunately ALL the boats floated. This experiment was the first investigation in our new unit on matter. We will discuss (since we ran out of time today) Monday that a physical property of paper is being less dense than water. Therefore, paper will always float, even when smashed to the bottom of bucket.
In our continued exploration with the scientific method and discovering variables, we brought some grasshoppers to life and measured their amazing jumping abilities. Some of those little guys could jump!
It has been a busy week here in fifth grade!
We found out how many drops would fit on the head and tail of a penny and learned about variables in science! On Friday in math we practiced our Order of Operations skills with some BINGO! A great end to a great week. |
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