Posts by Amy Gwizdz:
Book Reports
Greetings! We are beginning a weekly book report project in class this week. Every Monday, students will be expected to turn in their 5 paragraph book reports. They are to read a book, download an appropriate plan from the blog’s Language Arts page, go through the writing process, and produce a final product. Neatness and creativity count! For the month of March, we are focusing on non-fiction. We look forward to our students’ best work!
Imagery
Today we learned that imagery creates mental pictures through sensory language~words or phrases that appeal to the five senses. We explored Sensory Boxes for all 5 of our senses, and recorded descriptive words (imagery) for each item in the box. We also dove into our thesauruses, and found more descriptive words to add to our […]
Science Experiments
Our class had to use what they know about physics to build a ramp and see whose car could travel the farthest. Contest winners to be announced shortly!
Conversion Rap
Here is the link to the conversion rap video Mrs. Hussein showed during math today. Conversion Rap
Valentine’s Day List
Here is the class list for Valentines~ Awad Wasim Howaida Naddir Asma Zahraa Mustfa Amna Tavion Badr Mahdi Danielle Mahmoud Amber Kalid Zainab Mohammad Angel Naydeen Madison Cassie Siham Tariq Ayah
Planners
Parents, Please make sure that planners are signed Thursday evening. These signed planners are 5th graders’ ticket in the door Friday morning! Things to look for in the planner: Assignments and classroom projects, due dates, special announcements, missing/incomplete homework. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call!
Newsletter
Happy “Winter!” First and foremost, I would like to welcome back Mrs. Hanan Hussein to our classroom! She was our pre-student teacher through Wayne State last semester, and has graciously come back to be our student teacher this semester. We are so happy to have her back! In Math we have just wrapped up […]
Congratulations Math-A-Thon Winners!
Addition and Subtraction 1st Place~ Tariq (open mike and movie and popcorn!) 2nd Place~ Amber (open mike and movie and popcorn!) 3rd Place~ Ayah (open mike) Multiplication 1st Place~ Mahdi (open mike) 2nd Place~ Amber (open mike and movie and popcorn) 3rd Place~ Tariq (open mike and movie and popcorn) Math Masters Badr (open mike) […]
Math-A-Thon Reminder
The Math-A-Thon takes place this Tuesday morning. If you pass BOTH tests, you will get movie and popcorn! For all other Math Masters who only pass one test, open mike and ice cream will still be your reward. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
From Our PTA President
Hello PTA Family, First and foremost, PTA would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I would like to thank all the parent/staff volunteers during our Holiday Shop. It was a great success. I would like to especially thank the Awada Family from Mrs. Mardini’s class for donating bags of toys for PTA to sell. We […]