Team Bryant Has Drafted a New Player!

On Monday, Team Bryant will gain a new teammate! We are excited for him to join us and looking forward to meeting him. We created a book to help him get acclimated to our classroom.

MVP's Book Talk Tuesday

Science and Math Exploration

One science station this week is a paper helicopter investigation! Students create a paper helicopter and test the speed at which it falls using three different designs. We wrote a hypothesis, identified all of the variables, and conducted the investigation. 

Students scaled fractions by multiplying whole numbers by fractions and mixed numbers. One group created different multiplication problems with one or two that did not fit in with the others. A partner had to identify the problems that did not match and explain why. 

MVP's Book Talk Tuesday

In The Blood of Olympus,Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel, and Leo sail to Greece on the Argo 2 as they try to make sure Giai doesn't wake and destroy the world as we know it.

Poem of the Week: The Little Boy and Old Man

Reflecting on Fantasy Texts

We had a fantastic time studying fantasy texts! Check out what Team Bryant learned during this unit. 

Think Outside the Box.

Poem of the Week: I, Like You

Grace's Book Talk

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets is the 2nd book in the Harry Potter series. Before returning to Hogwarts, a creature comes and tells Harry he can't return to 

Hogwarts because bad things will happen. But Harry goes. To Hogwarts anyway. And the creature was right: Bad things did happen! But Harry, Ron, Hermione are determined to find out who is making these bad things happen, and why. Read to find out!  

Team Bryant Highlights

This week's game plan: 

Reading: Readers will continue reading their fantasy book club books and studying elements of fantasy texts. We will think about real world elements that can be applied to fantasy texts. We will also study archetypes we typically encounter in fantasy stories.

Writing: Writers did a great job with their second literary essays. I hope you take the opportunity to listen to their piece on Seesaw. This week students will decide on a new topic for their literary essay. We will take everything we have learned in this unit, and apply it to our final piece.

Math: Mathematicians will take their Chapter 9 Test on adding and subtracting fractions this Tuesday. Students should use previous assignments, their review in the textbook, and Quizlets on Google Classroom to study. Thursday, we will begin Chapter 10 on multiplying and dividing decimals.

Science: Scientists will take a break from science lessons this week. We will go over our Space Test and take the monthly Galileo Test.

Social Studies: Historians will complete and share their advertisements for the 13 colonies. 

Finding Symbolism in Our Reading

In reading, students learned about symbolism, the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. Their mission was to find symbolism in their texts and analyze what it means to characters and the story. 

Reviewing for Our Space Test

Ms. Daeumler created a Jeopardy game for Team Bryant to review for their science test tomorrow. Students worked together in teams to answer questions from our Space Unit.  

Think Outside the Box