Our First Week!

We have reviewed multiplication and our strategies including the generic rectangle, repeating our addition, and using landmark numbers.  Thursday we started our unit on division.  So far we have seen repeated subtraction, using multiplication to work backwards, clustering, and the partial quotient strategies to solve division.  I am impressed so far and I can't wait to see what else you guys can share about division.

In science we have looked at science tools, measuring objects and we have explored liquids and solids.  We reviewed the three states of matter and practiced describing matter using its properties.  We are going to continue our fun next week!

We are off to a great start and I hope you all have a great weekend!

Star Students!

We have had such a great first week of 5th grade!  Every week we get to celebrate a Star Student and this week Ann and Joshua worked so hard to earn the title! Great work!

Here is Ann and Joshua with Goody and Gibby, our class mascots! Keep up the good work!

We Are Ready!

Rooms 73 and 71 are ready for you!  Mr. Gibbons and I have been working so hard to get everything in place and ready for Monday.  We are both so excited to meet each of you and start learning and having fun!  The only school supplies you will need to bring are about 10 pencils, a composition book and a pack of ruled notebook paper.   As we say all year "It is good to be an Ape!"

Wow! Summer has moved fast!

We have spent time in Fernandina Beach, Virginia Beach and now moving.  This has been a very busy summer but at least we all still have a few days to relax before we get back to working hard.  Here are a few pictures of our summer.

We went to Fernandina with several friends. This is Caden, one of Ryan's best friends!

Ryan got to go tubing for the first time with her cousin and friend.

Then they made me go tubing, it is harder than it looks but fun!

Ryan and Ariela met their friends at Busch Gardens.

This is Ryan's Great Gramper Goodman.

The Bay is fun with Ashlee, Ryan's cousin who is now playing on the 15 year old Coastal National Volleyball team in Va Beach.  Did I mention she will only be 14 in August! Go Ashlee!

Learning to Polka in front of a live audience is not very nice!

The heat was so bad Ryan played in the water park with her clothes on!

She enjoyed the live audience for the Chicken Dance!

Ryan with cousin Lily, Mr. Goodman and Uncle Steve Goodman!