Fifth graders study governmental procedures and the metric system
News from Ms. Diane Wildfong's class
September 16, 2008
Vote for me! Slide ShowPatriots of 2008:
Ms. Wildfong's theme for this year is "Patriot Citizens" in honor
of the upcoming elections.
Learning about governmental procedures
from the book The Kid Who
Ran For President by Dan Gutman is
fun as well as factual. We also
have a two 'party' system to earn points
while reporting facts; Blue
Democrats and Red Republicans. There
was quite the discussion of which
team they really wanted to be on!
In honor of our red, white and
blue we took individual and table
shots. Indeed this group is a
wonderful Patriotic bunch!
Metric
Olympics
Reviewing metrics is so much more
fun when it is completely hands
on! To begin the review we did
centers in our classroom involving
linear, liquid volume, solid
volume, mass, area, and perimeter. We
then grouped as buddies and
completed six Metric Olympic Centers
in our gym; Paper Plate Discus,
Paper Straw Javelin, Cotton Ball
Shot Put, Right Handed Marble
Grab, Left-handed Sponge Squeeze,
and the Big Foot Contest. Once we
were done we figured out our
margin of error from the estimate
to the actual measurement. Scores
for the winners in each category
are posted in the hall. We have
two more hands-on centers to go!
What fun!
