Welcome to the 5th grade blog! Please check back often for updates and new things the 5th grade is doing this year.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Writing stories...

This week we turned in our first stories! Students wrote non-fiction description stories about a favorite vacation or place. We worked on using lots of "sensory language," so our readers could really picture what was happening.

Here are some pictures of the writing process in action...








Thursday, October 11, 2012

More science fun!

To help us learn more about cells, students made their own 3D models of a plant or animal cell! Take a look below at all the awesome cells!!
 

 
Some up-close views...









Monday, October 1, 2012

Fun in Science!

So far this year, we have been learning that living things are all around us, and all living things are made up of cells.

Here we are looking at the onion cell slides we made!