TONIGHT ON VPR at 7PM!

Listening alert!

Monday, October 7 at 7PM marks the first in a series of programs on VPR’s Vermont Editioncalled: Dorothy’s List: A Monthly Series for Young Readers.

Tune in to hear the first of these discussions featuring authors, young readers and books which are part of Vermont’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award program, sponsored by the Vermont Department of Libraries.

A Great Week In 5th Grade

  One busy Monday morning, kids filed through the doors, ready for a new day. Vasanthi's class hung up their stuff, ready for art. Kids lined up at the door and the week began!  Here are some important things that we did throughout the week.
1.  We went to Double Art and worked on our TreeHouse project.
2.  We had NECAPS, thanks for the yummy snacks!  First,we did 3 Reading Sessions and Vasanthi gave us refreshing mints to stay focused.  We also had our first Writing Session.  After each session, we enjoyed our snacks outside and played Capture the Flag or simply played on the playground!
3.  We had Kindergarten Book Buddies and we got to read picture books to them and taste healthy kiwi.  They even read to us!
4.  Thanks to Katie, we had wonderful trail mix, with tons of leftovers!  We read out Scholastic News and talked with our friends from the lovely, Mrs. Crowther's class.
5.  Vasanthi read aloud from WONDER all week!  We will be having a book discussion with Miss Natalie's class next Friday.  We also started Out of My Mind for the Global Read Aloud!
6.  We helped Megan Maynard's 3rd Grade class type up their Narratives!
7.  We launched into our Study of Space and we are working on posters to share with the class!
8.  At math time we uncovered new calendar.  We are making thoughtful mathematical observations and predictions about the pattern.
9.  In Math, we also learned about Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally!  Ask your child about it!
10.  That's all.
This post written by Katie, Ava and Emilie
 


 

Thank you!

Thank you for participating in this year’s Hike for Hunger! The day was a resounding success, in large part because of people like you who joined us and hiked to raise awareness and funds to eliminate hunger in our community. 

Thank you for helping Hunger Free Vermont raise over $24,000! This funding immediately powers all of our education and advocacy work to improve the health of vulnerable Vermonters. With your support, we ensure there is nutritious food for children wherever they are throughout their days, empower adults and seniors with 3SquaresVT benefits to provide healthful food in the home, and provide nutrition education to families so they can cook nutritious meals on small budgets. In addition to contributing to a higher quality of life, healthier eating can save thousands of dollars over a lifetime in personal health care costs and lost wages due to illness.  On behalf of all the staff at Hunger Free Vermont, I’d like to thank you for being a valued partner in our mission!

Best regards,

Monica Taylor

Monica Taylor | Donor Relations ManagerHunger Free Vermont | 38 Eastwood Drive | Suite # 100 | South Burlington, VT | 05403

Endeavor Community Service

Endeavor 5th Graders delivered 138 non perishable food items to the Shelburne Food Shelf!  Thank you for supporting us in this community service event.  We stocked the shelves of the food shelf and met Cathy Townsend the organizer of this great community resource.

 The Endeavor Team raised almost $800 for Hunger Free Vermont!  Thank you all for your effort and those of us who walked enjoyed the beautiful weather and this community hike together!

Fire Prevention Day, Picture Day, Shelburne Farms

Endeavor 5th grade had another busy week!  We began Spelling/Word Study, we discovered a working definition for Rotational Symmetry, met a 911 dispatcher and talked about habits of being kind, and putting our best effort towards everything we do!

Here is a bulleted list by subject of what we accomplished this week!
Readers Workshop
*As their Reading Coach, I encouraged them to reflect on their reading and gave them strategies to use to make them read longer, stronger and faster!  We also did a little NECAP practice, writing a narrative paragraph and correcting grammar (commas, capitals and sentence structure).  This week we will continue with this practice.  We have been comparing our writing responses to "real 5th grade" responses, this shows us how we can put more effort into our work and make our responses score higher than a 1 or 2, we are striving for 3 or 4 points for our responses.

Writers Workshop
*As their Writing Coach, I encouraged them to think about how they were going to make writing the best it could be this year.  We recorded this reflection on our Kidblog, we were able to read the reflections of peers and leave comments for them.  Curious about our Kidblog, ask your child to show you, they can log on from home by using the link on the Endeavor webpage.  This week we also added to our lists of First, Last and Times we realized something.  Thanks to our Turning Point shares, students have been able to make connections with one another and add to their writing topic lists.  We also wrote fast and furious about our names and the stories they hold.  Next week we will do some practice NECAP writing as well as build some entries in our journals.  We also hope to bring home our pocket notebooks, to jot down the stories that surround us at all times!

Math
*This week we unpacked multiplication and division.  We were able to talk about multiplication and division as inverse operations and we discovered the commutative property.  We talked about important vocabulary such as factor, product, dividend, divisor and quotient.  Our core math ideas this week were: Array models allow mathematicians to visualize and understand multiplication as division. Mathematicians think of division in terms of sharing and grouping.  During Number Corner we continued to make thoughtful mathematical observations about our calendar pattern and our two penny toss data. are working hard to define and understand reflective as well as rotational symmetry.  We had an exciting seminar on rotational symmetry, here is what Lucas has to say about what we discovered!

video coming soon....


Lastly, our Shelburne Farms fieldtrip was so worthwhile!  The weather was beautiful and the engagement from all students and chaperones was high as we tackled our group work skills.  Each group was involved in activities that honed in on team building, habits of mind such as listening, responsibility, accuracy and precision, collaboration, and interdependence.  One group harvested vegetables from the Market Garden and prepared them, another group worked had to build a fire! Trough these activities the Shelburne Farms staff strived to have students realize that we all have skills, opinions, and ideas to offer and that together we can accomplish more and we can learn form one another! Photos from the trip at the top of this post!