State Testing Time

Pinterest is such a wonderful tool! 

We started our state testing today so I wanted to do something special for my class yesterday. After searching Pinterest, I decided to decorate my classroom door.

I arrived to school bright and early Monday morning! I had my plan and I was ready to implement it. I was able to complete the door just in time for students to arrive! They were so excited to see our classroom door! Even the other fifth grade students thought the door was cool. I didn't stop there... nope, not me! I found a really cool minion template online at The Pink Dormat. I printed the template for my homeroom students and my math students. They were so happy to make their own minion for our classroom entrance. It was nice to have a little fun the day before we start state testing. They are ready for testing to be over... and it just started.

I will post pictures tomorrow!!

This is embarrassing!

This has been a very busy school year! I have spent many hours preparing for lessons and I have completely  avoided blogging.

As I reflect on my school year thus far, I feel a sense of accomplishment for what we have achieved.

• Doodle 4 Google contest
• Doodle 4 Google webinar
• Values video - based from the website values.com
• Compare & contrast videos
• We learned about Close Reading
• Bring Your Own Device - one day where we incorporated QR Code activities in our curriculum
• Loyalty Day posters  
• Friendship Festival
• Antarctica webinar - National Geographic
• Library poetry contest
• We recorded audio stories
• Gingerbread house
• Thanksgiving fifth grade rotations
• created a large turkey
• ate breakfast
• Thanksgiving writing / poem 
• Fall Festival
• Students created a Google Site portfolio that is a collection of their fifth grade year
• We made KidSnippets movies with our high school friends
• We recorded books for our K-1 friends
• My homeroom class has earned 594 blue ribbons in Study Island ELA PACCS
• My math class has earned 275 blue ribbons in Math PACCS Study Island 

I anxiously await permission to roll out BYOD after state testing is over. My students are so excited about the endless possibilities that BYOD will offer us.