Ms. Hildebrandt's Agenda

Here is 5D's weekly update!  Reminder: No school on Friday for PD day. Math This week in math, we are well into our statistics and data unit and learned how to use stem-and-leaf plots. Pictured is the stem and leaf plot we made as a class with our birthdays! Next week we are diving into surveying with open and close-ended questions and will soon be gathering data of our own. Physical Education In PE, students played basketball games while practicing dribbling, shooting techniques, and applying strategy during gameplay! Social Studies We are wrapping up our ancient geography unit with a creative final task. Students wrote handwritten postcards from their chosen ancient civilization, describing key geographical features and explaining how geography influenced life in that civilization. Science In science, students conducted a hands-on experiment testing buoyant forces and density by placing different classroom objects into various liquids. This helped students understand how ...

The past two weeks have been full of learning, thinking, and creativity in our classroom and we have lots underway! Social Studies : Students debated the benefits of settling near rivers versus coastlines for ancient civilizations, considering factors like trade, food, safety, and transportation. To wrap up our geography unit, students have begun writing postcards from the perspective of someone living in an ancient civilization, describing the geographical features of their environment and how those features shaped daily life. Physical Education : Lately we have been working on our basketball skills, practicing shooting, dribbling, and layups. These foundational skills will help prepare us as we move into game play, teamwork, and strategy in the coming weeks. Math : We have wrapped up addition and subtraction and transitioned into a new unit on data and statistics. Students are beginning to learn how to collect, organize, and interpret data in meaningful ways. Writing : Our story writ...

Classroom Highlights and Recent Learning Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been busy with lots of learning! Math:  Students are working on addition and subtraction with numbers up to one million and with decimals to the thousandths, using a range of strategies to build confidence and accuracy. Social Studies:  Students prepared for next week’s debate by exploring the opportunities and challenges that come with ancient civilizations who developed along rivers or coastlines. Literacy: To mark the Winter Solstice, students learned about how the Lakota and Blackfoot people use a Winter Count recorded on the buffalo robe to preserve their collective memories and oral history over long periods of time. Students then created pictorial representations of collective classroom memories and wrote about their significance. Prior to the winter break, students also had the opportunity to meet an author, who shared their book and illustrations and gave students a behind-the-scene...