• Creating projects for viewing on Curriculum Night: Goal for the year and specific plans for how to achieve it, flips flops to show a highlight and low point of their summers, t-shirt to show our favorites, name art to show our uniqueness and creativity.
•Receiving training in patrol responsibilities, classroom jobs, and new routines such as fun cards and the 10th Inning.
•Listening to a "Grebigol" story and working cooperatively with a team to create a grebigol creature with provided items, but without talking or writing down words.
•Watching "Kid President" remind us of the 20 things people should say more often, then working together to compile and agree on our classroom rules.
•Sharing about ourselves by having the class guess the significance of five items in our "sacks."
•Playing "Guess the Leader" with Mrs. Tranter's class.
•Overviewing the six reading "signposts" from "Notice and Note" that we will be focusing on during our reading this year.
•Enjoying a special recess with only fifth graders, celebrating all of the August birthdays in fifth grade.
•Writing a letter to oneself on googledocs for a time capsule to be read at the end of the school year.
•Sharing two truths and a lie on Kidblog, guessing each other's, then revealing which are true and which one was the lie, and adding a little story of explanation.
•Watching motivational youtube clips about the importance of reading, created by another elementary class and also watching the South Middle School teachers singing/acting the song "Brave."
•Doing a science experiment which surprised all of us and helped us understand more about air and the amount of pressure it provides.
•Following up the experiment with a close reading lesson and working as a class to 1. stake a claim, 2. provide evidence, and 3. explain our thinking.
•Establishing a routine of reading every day and starting to record and reflect on our reading in new RAH Journals.
•Working in teams during the egg drop experiment to plan, construct, judge, drop, read about, and write about how to drop an egg to the ground without having it break.