...and then we enjoy a day of reading with friends! Finally we open our Valentines and eat way too many treats! Hope your week off is great. Mrs. B

First, we get ready for Valentines Day...

Long time no blog! Sorry!

Here are a few shots of our planet interviews. It is amazing what you can learn about a planet if you just ask. Judging by the great scores on our astronomy tests I would say it helped to hear from the experts. Do you know which planets have moons and which don't? Or which planet is tilted sideways? Or why Mercury has so many craters and why Venus is the hottest planet? Just ask a student from Room 6 to find out.

Happy Holidays!

Our holiday gift exchange was one of the nicest I have had in years! Thank you to Room 6 kids for being so sweet and reasonable. I hope your vacation was super and I look forward to jumping back in to our fifth grade studies. Don't forget your Heritage Homework assignment. It is due on Thursday. See you soon, Mrs. B

These are tessellations. These tessellations are patterns built of regular polygons that fit in a repeated pattern with no gaps and no overlaps. Today we made our own paper patterns for tessellations. Pictures of them to follow!

Can this be math?

This is the scene: fifth grade students are playning a math game called Polygon Capture. They pull two cards which tell them attributes they are looking for and they claim those polygons which fit. The goal is to capture the most polygons! It looks like fun and it sounds like math.