Today we designed and created menus for our own restaurants. The qualifications for a good menu were 10 items, a picture of each item...

To end the year with a bang, I'm finally able to implement some math games that tie in with our fraction and geometry units! First up, we...

As a testing incentive, students received points towards a water day, which came to fruition today! Students could earn points for...

Today we had the opportunity to visit Alhambra High School as part of our STEM and CCR curriculum! Just to refresh what the acronym CCR...

It's one of the best days of the year! And we've got great weather, too! Our class chose to wear blue, which seemed to be a popular pick...

STEAM means Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math - but we also threw in a few special elements - like Social Studies and...

What an incredible field trip we went on today! These are just a few snapshots of how awesome our day was! Once your child has recovered...

Today we had Ms. Shetler visit us for a special STEM Challenge: saving the honeybees! Honeybees are critical to our environment to...

There have been a lot of recently overwhelming events within our community as well as internationally, and it's a lot to take in. As easy...

We learned a fun and high paced game to help us remember the three branches of government! My parents used to play this game when they...

Today we brainstormed everything a good essay writer can't forget when writing a solid, multi-paragraph essay that cites evidence and...

After reading all of the ravings by other fifth-grade teachers, I decided to start the Six Minute Podcast with my students every...

Today's science lesson was all about how and where we get energy to power our lives! Since the industrial revolution, humans have...

We had fun learning facts about the different presidents we've had in our country. This was just a fun little video to introduce our...

We got to have some hands on fun creating volume of rectangular prisms using our centimeter cubes! Students worked in pairs to create...

One of our fifth-grade promise standards is analyzing informational texts to find the main ideas and details, and ultimately write a...

SCIENCE TIME!!! Our science unit this month is about natural disasters. I introduced the unit using a Mystery Science lesson about where...

Happy March! For our read aloud, I have been reading a personal favorite of mine - Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly. We are comparing...

All of the heart eyes for the hard work our students are putting forth, and the amazing end results! On display we have a highly...

This month we give extra focus to those who came before us to pave the way for African Americans in our country! In my class we have...