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Fifth graders are practicing their partner reading AND sticky noting a text to prepare for tomorrow’s discussion.

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Today we were wondering at the energy or particles. We added food coloring to three different jars at different temperatures to see how quickly the color spread.

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Fifth grade is simulating the changes in states of matter. They are trying to determine what is happening to the particles as matter changes states.

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Fifth graders are coding their rovers to traverse the surface of “Mars”! They have tasks to complete at each checkpoint before returning to the start position.

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Fifth graders spent a week creating a game based on their book group reading. Some students did card games while others did board games.

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Students in 5C are pulling apart poems to use as inspiration for their own writing! Hooray for teamwork!

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We are researching Mars and what it takes to be prepared for a manned mission to another planet.

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Competitive food chains are the name of the game today!

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Fifth graders had the opportunity to experience some colonial games today! These students are trying out a wooden top.

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Sometimes you just need to take a day and get excited about writing again! Students are playing some collaborative storytelling games.

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Another amazing food truck add, this time created by Luci Arroyo! @nwesnh

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Students have created food trucks that represent characters and themes from their recent book groups. This is a social media add promoting one of the food trucks. Created by Mabel Winslow. @nwesnh

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We are shaking things up here in fifth grade while students act as engineers trying to build earthquake resistant building that will survive our shake tables.

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Fifth grade is experiencing what it was like to colonize the new world by participating in a simulation. Think Age of Empires meets Catan.

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Fifth graders are modeling how to divide decimals by using base 10 blocks!

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Lego robots have made an appearance in fifth grade! Students are building and coding robots to complete specific tasks.

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We finally have some work tea from our worm farm! Now to feed the plants…

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Fifth graders are playing games to practice different math skills!

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Students in 5C are working hard to take notes about the Lost Colony of Roanoke and then use each other as a resource to make sure they’ve found all important pieces of information before beginning their writing.

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Fifth graders are hunting for text evidence to use in question responses by reading about favorite movies.