In Mrs. Allgood's 5th grade classes, students created and shared math games with their classmates. Students are learning about the materials necessary to grow plants. They are currently waiting for their hydroponics plants to sprout and grow.
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A student led initiative is turning Mr. Belew's 5th grade Class into a Christmas Wonderland!
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In Mrs. Light's math classes, we are learning to multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by powers of 10 (such as 10, 100 and 1000). We not only practice solving these types of problems, we also practice explaining to others how we arrived at the answer and why our answer is the correct one. Most students learn the steps to solve these types of problems quickly, but have a hard time explaining the "how" and "why" of it. We spend a lot of time explaining the "how" and "why" in our math classrooms.
For almost two weeks, in Mrs. Redman's Language Arts enrichment class, students researched "Should individuals drink bottled water or tap water?" and then discussed their findings using a Socratic discussion. We presented, in two groups, this form of discussion and they really enjoyed themselves. When one group presented, the other group had to listen and figure out what they could say, when it was their turn, based on the discussion and their research. This discussion allowed them to hear other students' thoughts and debate using discussion phrases to help the conversation move along while respecting others' opinions. The students then responded to a google form asking for feedback about the discussion. They were asked what they liked, what they would do differently, and would enjoy doing it again? The students responded with almost 70% interested in doing this type of discussion again.
Future Meteorologists in training from Mr. Belew's 5th grade science class explore the crystalline structure of snowflakes.
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Mrs. Vaden's 5th Grade Social Studies Classes studied causes of the American Revolution, which included Great Britain's "Taxation of the Colonies Without Representation".One favorite activity was the Boston Tea Party. Students read both British and Colonists accounts of the incident, gathering information from a variety of resources. Loyalists and Patriots alike shared "tea and biscuits," concluding with the development of opinion pieces of the historic incident.
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Mr. Belew's class won the Beebe Middle School Red RIbbon Week canned fruit drive by collecting more than 100 cans of fruit for food pantries in our community!
Red Ribbon Week and Halloween Carnival Fun at Beebe Middle School
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Mr. Belew's Moby Max Wall of Fame Members for Week One. A Team members have an "A" average for the week. Homework Heroes spent more than 30 minutes at home working independently on Moby Max Math.
Mr. Belew at is "beary" proud of his class for being the top AR Class in 5th Grade! Way to go Mrs. Pasley, their reading teacher!
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Engaging learning is the best learning! Students in Mrs. Carter's class brought the Boston Tea Party to life. Students worked together to build tea crates. These crates had to keep a bag of tea dry after they dropped it into the water. The team that designed the crate that kept the tea dry the longest won a prize. Students loved having a hands on experience while learning about an event of the past!
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" Book Tasting" is just that: a sampling of books from a variety of genres to encourage students to read. The students also sampled some fall goodies as they perused books at their reading levels in Mrs. Vaden's room.
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Ms. Davis's science classes went outside to identify items in the Earth's four spheres.
Then, we discussed ways in which the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and the biosphere interact.
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Mrs. Rector, the Beebe Middle School Counselor may be a little woman but she stands tall in the classroom!
Bledsoe’s Fluency Raceway
The Reading Drag Strip is open in Bledsoe’s classroom. The Fluency Raceway has begun races biweekly. The majority of our reading speed demons have already increased their wpm (words per minute). We have already had some racers reach speeds greater than the required reading speed by the end of 5th grade - 155 words per minute! These readers are placed into the Reading Hall of Fame.
Students practice daily through oral fluency, reading comprehension pieces, and their own silent independent reading to help them increase their reading speeds, so that they can move further down the drag strip and closer to the finish line. Bledsoe’s students were so excited today to place their racecar on the track and begin drag racing against their classmates.
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Building Engineers. . . Or Bridges
The engineers in Mrs. Whitehead’s science class were hard at work building bridges. They used the engineering process to design, create and test their bridges. They analyzed their data to determine if the length of the bridge had anything to do with the amount of weight the bridge could hold. Our engineers had a great time and can't wait for their next project.
