Nancy Huffman

Today is Camp Read:  We rotate to rooms with a different reading theme in each room: poetry, non-fiction, picture books, your choice.  We we also have a story telling session this afternoon.  The 5th grade talent show is this afternoon as well.
Tomorrow:  walk to the bowling alley (hopefully it is not raining, like today) and […]

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Students are crushed that today will be our last math homework test, as you can imagine! We will play math games after the test. 
In reading we will continue with our choice novel work.  Homework is to just get our reading logs and assignment sheets signed.  Next week there will be no assignment sheets, reading logs, […]

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We will continue with our math work on decimals.  Homework is just the one sheet this week -one row per night!  (This is our last week for homework!)
Students will continue their small group work with their novels in reading.  Homework is the usual reading and recording.
We will type the final copies of our last poetry […]

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Trying to get a few last things in that students will need for 5th grade!  This is our last “normal” week….it’s five days long, with no trips etc.  Next week will be lots of fun activities:  a read-a-thon day, a math games day, plus a bowling fieldtrip.  It’s winding down!
Math homework will be the usual […]

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Follow up in our science notebooks and writing up conclusions will be done today.  It was an interesting experience….nice to be able to do those hands on kinds of learning.  The news was there filming, but I wasn’t home to see if we were on.  I’ll have to ask the students if they saw us […]

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Students will have the opportunity to do 2 or 3 sessions at the park.  One is on stream flow, one is on stream water quality and stream critters, and one is stream mapping.  We haven’t done this activity before, so it will be a great learning opportunity.  Thanks to Mrs. Hoog and Mrs. Bitton for […]

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We will actually be eating at school, but too early for the kitchen to be serving lunch, so we will picnic it outside on our grounds before heading to the park.  No flip flops for this event, please.
In math today we did more with equivalent fractions.  Homework tonight includes twice the usual number of rows, […]

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The year is winding down!  Our last book project is due tomorrow.  Today is our last principal pride assembly, with year end award assemblies the last week.  Thursday afternoon our class will be in Mix Park doing all kinds of water study activities.
Today in math we will be working on equivalent fractions.  Homework is the […]

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Last year was rainy, windy, and cold!  We have much to be thankful for this year!
We will take our math for today test, and then our fun activities will begin.  Students will also hear about the Public Library’s summer reading program and get a free  book (Courtesy of the PTCA), as well as many fun […]

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I can’t wait!  It should be exciting.
We will correct math homework and practice in our rockets before going to a kick-off assembly.   Homework is to finish the two sheets (rows) and study for tomorrow’s homework test.
Reading will consist of working on our novels.  Homework is to finish any novel work, record reading time on the blue […]

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