Introducing RAZ Kids

Good Morning,

Today, we will be using a new website, called RAZ-kids.  You will have time to read a selection of texts and take quizzes to help improve your reading and comprehension.  This is something you can do on the iPads in class as well.

The login is:  http://www.raz-kids.com

If you are in Mrs. Edward's homeroom, your login will be kedwardsaae

If you are in Mrs. Sampson's homeroom, your login will be msampsonk

You may select a text to read, but you must also take a quiz after the test.  The texts are interesting, but quite long :)  Have fun!

Mrs. Morell

If you finish Scantron, watch these...

OK my friends.  When you finish Scantron testing, you must be quiet to let others finish, so prepare to be amazed by this series of videos - mostly from TedEd, but a few suggestions from Lizzie and Cate:

Mathletics Challenge Winners! And Scantron Testing

5th  Grade Mathletics Challenge Winners!

Our 5th Grade winners were Constantine and Adriano Bayz.  Each will receive a Holy Trinity polar fleece sweatshirt with "Mathlete" embroidered on it.

Our 5th Grade runners-up were: Chiara Tartaglino, Katie Moran, Sophie Myers, Sarah Myers, Karreone Goddard, Morgan Curran, Seamus Carroll-Gavula, and Eli Smulson.  Our runners up will receive Saxby's gift cards.

Congratulations Mathletes! We will be having another challenge in February, so continue playing Mathletics.

This week in the lab, we will be continuing Scantron testing.  

Mathletics Challenge Update

Hello all,

We have one more week of our Mathletics Challenge, and Wow, have we been impressed with the results!

Today, we will work on Live Mathletics during tech class:

http://www.mathletics.com/

And here is the Leaderboard as of Tuesday, January 22nd:

1.     Adriano

2.     Constantine

3.     Sophie

4.     Katie

5.     Seamus

6.     Max

7.     Sarah

8.     Elijah

9.     Morgan

10.  Jack

11.  Anu

12.  Pierce

13.  Karreone

14.  Emily

15.  William

16.  Sofia B

17.  Alexandra

18.  Chloe

19.  Cate

20.  Michelle

21.  Leopold

 

January Mathletics Challenge!

Hi 5th Grade!

Today begins our first annual January Mathletics Challenge!

For the rest of the month of January, we will be keeping track of the number of correct answers you achieve during Live Mathletics. The student from each homeroom with the highest totals will receive an HTS fleece that says: "Mathlete of the Month." Prizes will also be awarded to the top five students in each class.

We will spend time doing Mathletics in class, but you are also encouraged to play on this website in After School and at home.  If you have an iPad, you may download the free Mathletics app.

As Ms. Sileo explained this morning, we would like you to stay on the level you have been assigned, or work a bit above. You will not be given credit for any answers from levels 8, 9 or 10 - we simply don't want you guessing on problems you don't know yet!

 If you have any questions, please let me know!

You can access Mathletics here:  http://www.mathletics.com

Have fun!

Mrs. Morell

Happy New Year 5th Grade!

Today, we will begin a very cool series of activities to help you learn to navigate Cyberspace - your Digital Passport from the website Common Sense Media.

You will begin with "Search Shark."  This will help you learn how to choose effective keywords for searching online. You will practice selecting keywords that are most relevant to a search prompt. Along the way, you will discover hints for narrowing your search results.

The login can be found here:

https://www.digitalpassport.org/educator-registration/studentLogin

Each one of you will have a login and password, which I will give to you at the beginning of class.

If you finish this activity, you may spend the last few minutes of class on Mathletics

Happy Searching!

Mrs. Morell

Merry Christmas!

Hi 5th Grade!

We have a super short class today because of Christmas Show rehearsal, but I would like to share the following Year in Review video from Google Zeitgeist.

Here's to the curious :)

You can make a choice of one of the games on my blog for the rest of your 12-minute class today... Merry Christmas! Mrs. Morell