We have had a very busy and exciting week.
On Monday, students that had perfect attendance for 3rd quarter got to enjoy an extra recess. Great job on coming to school everyday on time! Also, Monday night was the 5th grade strings concert at the Community Center. We have some real talent here in 5th grade!
Tuesday was our first day of Math MAP testing. Students worked very hard and you should be very proud of your child. Tuesday night, Connor Carr was recognized at the HOPE awards. This is a great honor.
On Wednesday, we finished up the Math MAP test. We only have 3 days of Science MAP next week!
Thursday was "Take Your Child to Work Day." With half the classroom gone today, we were able to get a ton of activities completed and work in smaller groups.
On Friday, we started Running Club again. Remember this is every Friday at 8:00 am on the green top outside. We encourage everyone to come and enjoy the fun!
Upcoming Events:
April 28 CiCi's Night
May 1 Skate Night
May 2 Running Club 8:00 am
May 5 Hall of Fame posters due today- Questions Contact Heather Theime
May 9 Running Club 8:00 am
May 14 Missouri Town Field Trip- if you want to go as a parent, please contact Mr. Baldwin to get you on the list
May 15 Strings Field Trip
May 16 Running Club 8:00 am and Civil War Wax Museum
May 19 5th Grade Picnic- Questions Contact Heather Theime
May 20 Talent Show and 5th Grade Recognition- Students dress nice
May 23 Running Club 8:00 am and Field Day- Want to help? Contact Rachel Wise 1st Grade Teacher
May 27 Move Up Day
May 29 Last Day of School and Walk the Halls for 5th Grade
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Week of April 14th - April 17th
This week was our first week of MAP testing and we tested in ELA for two days (Tuesday and Wednesday). Students have also been working on their Collaborative Enrichment Program projects in coding, genius hour, and broadcasting. Here are some student projects:
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My codeing experience --Addy Shiddell
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Coding
Presentation --Marissa Williams
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Coding --Hailey Welch
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Coding --Bonnie Fordyce
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Coding --Connor Carlson
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We have two more weeks of MAP testing coming up (Math next week on Tuesday and Wednesday and Science on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of the following week).
We have been doing a lot of preparation for the MAP test the past few weeks and think our students had a great first week of testing! We are so proud!
Happy Easter!
Sincerely,
Ms. Hoffman and the 5th grade team
Friday, February 28, 2014
5th Grade Community Service
Hello!
As we are coming to the end of third quarter, we have had a lot going on in 5th grade at AD!
Science experiments we have been working on with force and motion and simple machines...
We had a pancake breakfast last week to raise money for the American Heart Association! We had some very generous donations!
Logan and Adam enjoying their pancakes made by their teachers!
Mr. Brewer came to visit during the pancake breakfast!
Dress up days for next week (March 3rd-7th):
Monday- Multi-Cultural Day!
Tuesday- Concert Attire Day!
Wednesday- Favorite Musical Artist!
Thursday- Favorite Artist Day!
Upcoming events:
*Science night at AD on Thursday, March 6th at 6:00 p.m.
*Spring Break March 17th-March 21st
We hope everyone has a great weekend and a great beginning to March!
Sincerely,
Ms. Hoffman and the rest of the 5th grade team
As we are coming to the end of third quarter, we have had a lot going on in 5th grade at AD!
Science experiments we have been working on with force and motion and simple machines...
We had a pancake breakfast last week to raise money for the American Heart Association! We had some very generous donations!
Logan and Adam enjoying their pancakes made by their teachers!
Mr. Brewer came to visit during the pancake breakfast!
Dress up days for next week (March 3rd-7th):
Monday- Multi-Cultural Day!
Tuesday- Concert Attire Day!
Wednesday- Favorite Musical Artist!
Thursday- Favorite Artist Day!
Upcoming events:
*Science night at AD on Thursday, March 6th at 6:00 p.m.
*Spring Break March 17th-March 21st
We hope everyone has a great weekend and a great beginning to March!
Sincerely,
Ms. Hoffman and the rest of the 5th grade team
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Wild and Crazy Week
We had such a fun and exciting week this week. Here is a recap of all of the fun we had together.
Friday, January 7th was Alexander Doniphan Night at the Liberty North Basketball game. We were announced and placed on the JUMBO-TRON!
Valentine's Day Party with our boxes
Friday, January 7th was Alexander Doniphan Night at the Liberty North Basketball game. We were announced and placed on the JUMBO-TRON!
New science experiments this week talking about Force and Motion!
We love Spirit Week!
Valentine's Day Party with our boxes
LMS came to our class to talk about Middle School!
Friday, January 31, 2014
Hitting Our Stride
Where has this month gone!? We can't believer it is already the end of January! Time definitely flies when you are having fun, and we certainly have a lot fun in 5th grade at Doniphan.
Birthday Celebrations
With this week marking the end of the month of January we celebrated our January birthdays one more time. We enjoyed a Super Bowl themed cookie cake. Happy Birthday again to all of our January birthdays!
Middle School Band
As we continue to work towards May our 5th graders will continue to get more and more information about what middle school will be like on a day-to-day basis. This week we had the Director of Band for the district come and talk to our students about the band departments at both middle schools. Nick Porter was a good sport and put on some of the band uniform for his classmates to see what they would look like if they did want to join band next year. Please check your student's Friday folder for more information.
Birthday Celebrations
With this week marking the end of the month of January we celebrated our January birthdays one more time. We enjoyed a Super Bowl themed cookie cake. Happy Birthday again to all of our January birthdays!
Middle School Band
As we continue to work towards May our 5th graders will continue to get more and more information about what middle school will be like on a day-to-day basis. This week we had the Director of Band for the district come and talk to our students about the band departments at both middle schools. Nick Porter was a good sport and put on some of the band uniform for his classmates to see what they would look like if they did want to join band next year. Please check your student's Friday folder for more information.
Super Bowl Celebration
Thanks to all the students who dressed up or our Super Bowl celebration today! It was fun to see you all in wearing your jerseys! Have fun watching at your Super Bowl parties.
Have a great weekend!
The Fifth Grade Team
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Exciting Things are Happening
So many exciting things are happening in our classroom this week. We dove right into our Collaborative Enrichment Program (CEP). It is so exciting to see fifth graders working on broadcasting skills, creating their own computer programs, and researching on their own topics to create amazing presentations.
Did you know that the average temperature in Antarctica is -56 degrees? Did you know that sun never sets in Antarctica? These are a few amazing facts that we learned this week when we did a live feed with explorers in Antarctica! It was so amazing and fun. Students got the opportunity to tweet out questions to the explorers that were in Antarctica. We got to sit and listen as they answered different questions asked by students.
Who doesn't like a little magic? We had so much fun with a school wide magic show. He came to our school and taught us that if we put our mind to it, we can do anything we want to do in life.
~Heather Porter
Did you know that the average temperature in Antarctica is -56 degrees? Did you know that sun never sets in Antarctica? These are a few amazing facts that we learned this week when we did a live feed with explorers in Antarctica! It was so amazing and fun. Students got the opportunity to tweet out questions to the explorers that were in Antarctica. We got to sit and listen as they answered different questions asked by students.
Who doesn't like a little magic? We had so much fun with a school wide magic show. He came to our school and taught us that if we put our mind to it, we can do anything we want to do in life.
~Heather Porter
Thursday, January 16, 2014
A Look into the Second Week of Second Semester!
What a great start to the semester we have had so far with so many changes in our 5th grade blended learning classroom! Here are some events and things we have been focusing on this week:
*William Jewell Men's and Women's Basketball team members volunteered at Alexander Doniphan on Monday, January 13th to read to students. We had three players read to each of the 5th grade classes in our room. Students really enjoyed this and they had the opportunity to ask the basketball players questions about college and basketball and their other hobbies! It is great to have role models like these basketball players for our students to look up to!
*Beginning Performance Series tests
*An introduction to a "Flipped" Style math lesson where students learn the math material/content at home by watching a tutorial or video on how to do the concept and then come to class the next day to discuss questions and concerns about what they learned. In class they will also complete a worksheet or activity that goes along with what they learned to see if they know the content. This way, they are working on the "homework" in class and are able to ask questions whereas if they did it at home, they don't have the teacher right there to ask questions. This is an effective method if used in the right way and can be very beneficial for students if they take advantage of it and do what they are supposed to at home.
*Students are working on a debate with a partner for writing in which they will have to be prepared to defend both sides of an issue.
*Students are being introduced to a new end of the day class routine where one class is learning about Coding (Hoffman's class), one class is beginning a broadcasting project (Baldwin's class) and one class is having a genius hour (Porter's class) where students are able to research a topic of their choice and present on that topic using a presentation tool we have learned about in class this year. We are calling this time our Collaboration Enrichment Program (CEP) because students will be collaborating with one another on an advanced subject for 30 minutes each day at the end of the school day. Students will rotate groups after 2 weeks of working with that teacher.
Here is our very own Tyson, practicing coding!
We have a lot of great things going in 5th grade at AD, and on behalf of the 5th grade team, we are really looking forward to the rest of this school year!
-Ms. Hoffman
*William Jewell Men's and Women's Basketball team members volunteered at Alexander Doniphan on Monday, January 13th to read to students. We had three players read to each of the 5th grade classes in our room. Students really enjoyed this and they had the opportunity to ask the basketball players questions about college and basketball and their other hobbies! It is great to have role models like these basketball players for our students to look up to!
*Beginning Performance Series tests
*An introduction to a "Flipped" Style math lesson where students learn the math material/content at home by watching a tutorial or video on how to do the concept and then come to class the next day to discuss questions and concerns about what they learned. In class they will also complete a worksheet or activity that goes along with what they learned to see if they know the content. This way, they are working on the "homework" in class and are able to ask questions whereas if they did it at home, they don't have the teacher right there to ask questions. This is an effective method if used in the right way and can be very beneficial for students if they take advantage of it and do what they are supposed to at home.
*Students are working on a debate with a partner for writing in which they will have to be prepared to defend both sides of an issue.
*Students are being introduced to a new end of the day class routine where one class is learning about Coding (Hoffman's class), one class is beginning a broadcasting project (Baldwin's class) and one class is having a genius hour (Porter's class) where students are able to research a topic of their choice and present on that topic using a presentation tool we have learned about in class this year. We are calling this time our Collaboration Enrichment Program (CEP) because students will be collaborating with one another on an advanced subject for 30 minutes each day at the end of the school day. Students will rotate groups after 2 weeks of working with that teacher.
We have a lot of great things going in 5th grade at AD, and on behalf of the 5th grade team, we are really looking forward to the rest of this school year!
-Ms. Hoffman
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