Sorry for the lack of pictures this week!  My phone storage is full so I've got to clear some space so I can take and upload more pics next week :)

Tomorrow is the spelling test and the language arts homework packet is due.

We had a fantastic day today!  We were able to finish our language arts centers first thing today.  I am really impressed with how well the kids are doing with helping each other during this time when I am working with a small group. They have 2 worksheets tonight for homework- pg. 30 and 32.  We took the comprehension test today as well.  It was a challenging one for sure!  I read the test out loud and we looked into the text a few times to help.

We multiplied with tens, hundreds, and thousands today in math.  The kids did really great with this!  They did quite a bit of independent practice in class, so I didn't assign additional math homework tonight.

We set raisins in water yesterday, and today we observed what happened to them.  One cup contained sand and the other didn't.  We observed that the raisins plumped up and became less wrinkly.  We also noticed that the membrane of the raisin kept out the sand! Just like our skin!  We will test some materials acting as a membrane tomorrow.  We will also group with 6th grade so they can show us how to use iMovie, which we'll need to use later in this unit.

Of course we needed some work time on the social studies posters.  They look really great and they kids were working on their speaking parts today.  Many kids came in at recess to work on their poster as well.

We started reading a new chapter book as a read aloud- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.  The kids are enjoying it so far.  You may have heard of the Netflix series of the same name.  The books came first and there are quite a few in the series.  They were really popular about 6 or 7 years ago, so not many kids have read the series yet.  I find this book a great read aloud because it uses and defines unfamiliar words, so we can grow our vocabulary, and it's suspenseful (always wondering what in the world can go wrong next and how will the children escape the awful Count Olaf!).  Our library has many of the books in the series, so it introduces the kids to something different and they may want to continue to read the series throughout the year.