December!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Both 4th and 5th grades have been working on realistic fiction in Mrs. Fay's class.  Both grades chose a realistic fiction book to read and review.  Students then filmed their reviews for our student conferences.  Students utilized the Aurasma app on our iPads to record themselves.  Students were then able to walk around and scan each book and it would pull up a video of a student giving a book review.  Here are a few pictures...

Fourth grade read The Graduation of Jake Moon.  The students enjoyed learning about Alzheimer disease and how families deal with struggles.  

 

The fifth grade read The Best School Year Ever.  Students loved reading about the silly Herdmans!  We learned that it's A-OK to be ourselves!

 

Fifth grade is also reading The Giver.  Make sure you turn in your permission slips to watch the film!  We want to compare and contrast the movie and the book. 

In math, fourth grade has been studying shapes in geometry.  They get really excited about talking about their progress!  Also, we saw major growth on our STAR tests!

In social studies, we are learning about the new world and the explorers.  The students love learning with portaportal.com.