Today we welcomed in the New Year by discussing what a resolution is. Together we made academic, social and personal resolutions and tonight for homework students should be finishing up a first draft of these. This draft might be "all she wrote" since we have a new and exciting collaboration coming up with the HACTC (Hartford Area Career and Technology Center). For this collaboration to work, students are going to need to write narrative stories.
Also, you will notice that "STUDY MATH FACTS" appears on the homework sheet all week. We are beginning what I consider to be the most important unit of fifth grade in mathematics. It includes multiplication, division and fractions. Parents will notice that division looks different to begin with... Be watching for instructional videos to appear in the blog. These videos will help you to understand why we teach division a little differently to start off.
Our new Social Studies Unit is "Colonial America." Kids will be learning about life in the colonies, and will begin to research a particular topic of interest and present his or her findings to the class.
And last, but not least, we have a student teacher for the next 7 weeks. Mrs. Barlow is her name and she comes to us from Brigham Young University. Her husband is a medical student from Dartmouth. After working with us, she will continue to work with DBS students in the first grade.
