How Much Sugar?

Students walked away from math today better able to visualize how much a gram is.  After learning how to read packaging lables, including: servings size, ingredients, and sugar content; students rotated through stations reading labels on various food products. As they did so, they weighed out how many grams of sugar are in one serving of the product.   Products ranged from Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Sunny D, milk, cereals, candies, and more.  Maybe these fifth graders will even walk away from this lesson with the life skill of being a more informed consumer when purchasing food products.

Book Clubs- By Claire

A few weeks ago we finished our book clubs.  We had three books, Maniac Magee, Among the Hidden, and The War with Grandpa.  We had read these books for three weeks, reading a few chapters each day.  We would have Bloom`s Taxonomy questions for homework.  We would pick one that we wanted to share with our group of people that were reading the same book.  We led our own discussion groups.  On Friday, we made posters of our book.  The posters had information on the front and a picture of something dealing with our book on the back.  Everyone`s poster was amazing!

Written by Claire

Reading Week!

During the week of April 2-6th, Jessie Beck Elementary celebrated Reading Week.  Students were encouraged to dress up each day of the week according to topics that fit into the "Historical Fiction" theme.  Historical hat day, favorite book character or historical character, and western/NV character were some of the topics.  Yeee Haw for Dr. Brock's class!