Students of the Week 10/30

This week's students of the week are Mackenzie and Zachary! Both of these students have been on top of their work and incredibly helpful to others. Thanks for not only staying on top of your game, but also looking out for others. Way to go, kiddos!

Week in Review 10/26-10/30

Happy Friday, Fisher Baker Families!

...And what a long week it's been. For some reason, this week we had a massive amount of kids neglect to do their homework the right way at some point this week. This echos what we mentioned at a lot of conferences: paying attention to details.

We'd like to remind our students that it is their responsibility to:

• paraphrase when writing their expert's paragraphs.
• include enough details on expert's notes and paragraphs.
• show close reading marks on any reading homework.

We'd love to be able to create a movie in November about the Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures, but our students must do their most basic jobs the right way first! We believe in you, fourth and fifth graders. Check yourself before you wreck yourself!


This week in Academics:

• We started a new lit study with the book, "Race to the Moonrise."
• We practiced finding dimensions of rectangles and their area and perimeter.
• We practiced a basic fact multiplication short cut.
• We learned about making sentences more interesting by adding more to subjects and predicates
• We learned about Inca quipu and Maya and Aztec codices.
• We researched with QR codes about the differences in Maya, Inca, and Aztec daily life.
• We learned about Inca runners and Maya math through expert's readings.
• The fifth graders continued to practice Taiko drumming with Tony. 

Looking Ahead:

• Next week: 5th grade Taiko performances
• Performance for the public: Thursday, November 5th from 5:30-6:30 (Marshall gym)
• School Assembly performance: Friday, November 6th at 9:30 (Marshall gym)

Have a super fun and super safe weekend!

-Ms. Baker and Ms. Fisher

Week in Review 10.19.15

Hey there Fisher Baker families,

It's back to normal around here this week with our spelling and regular homework routine. As the second quarter starts we're looking out for kids that are already beginning to work toward their second quarter goals. Many of these included getting more involved in class discussions, asking for help if needed, paying attention to details, and watching out for careless mistakes.

Although we're bummed our field trip had to be cancelled (again!) due to lightning risks and lots of rain, we'll go for the charming third try this spring.

This Week in Academics:

• We began a unit on multiplication
• arrays, groups of things, repeated addition
• factors and multiples
• prime and composite numbers
• We began a unit on Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures 
• We reviewed parts of speech and introduced adverbs

Looking Ahead:

• Birthday Friday
• Next Friday is birthday Friday and happens to be the day before Halloween. 
• We will be allowing Halloween costumes that day, however please be aware of our school's guidelines on this matter. 
• MARSHALL HALLOWEEN COSTUME GUIDELINES:

• If you choose to bring goodies for Birthday Friday please remember that our class has 52 students and two teachers. :) If foods need to be cut, please do us a huge favor and cut them up at home. Thanks!

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Fisher and Ms. Baker

Students of the Week 10.23

Congratulations to Haylee, Layne, and Ruby for being named this week's students of the week! These three have certainly earned it. Haylee was spotted picking up trash on the playground, Layne made sure a classmate had friends to play with at recess, and Ruby helped a podmate catch up on some notes. We're happy to have kids in our class that have such considerate and caring hearts.

Week in Review 10/12-10/14

 Well that was fast! Happy early Friday! We've enjoyed getting to meet with each of you for portfolio conferences this week. After reflecting on our strengths and goals both as individual students and as a whole class, we are excited to begin a fresh quarter with our 4th and 5th graders. We hope that you will enjoy extra time with each other over our two day fall break.




This Week in Academics:

• We reviewed and took a quiz on our graphing unit. 
• We created preposition maps
• Ms. Johnson (One of our NAU Praxis students) taught us about theme
• We continued practicing plotting ordered pairs with Coordinate Battleship

Looking Ahead:

• Taiko Drumming starts next week for 5th graders
• Next week we will be back to a normal homework week with vocabulary and spelling
• Tuesday, October 20th: Elden Pueblo Field Trip
• We have garden on Friday.

Week in Review 10/5-10/9

Hey there!

With no homework, a postponed field trip, and social health for the 5th graders, this week was a bit of a wacky one. We did, however, survive and manage to learn lots.


This week in academics:

• We learned about, practiced, and created line plots.
• We created ancient and modern Arizona maps and then took a quiz using the maps we created.
• We created pictograph stories after learning the difference between petroglyphs and pictographs.
• We learned about the three author's purposes from Ms. Keller (our NAU Praxis student)
• We put together portfolios and practiced presenting them for our parent-teacher portfolio conferences.
• The fourth graders got extra practice with writing a paragraph with details that actually support the topic sentence. 
• The fourth graders got extra practice taking surveys and creating bar graphs.
• The fourth graders got extra practice with plotting ordered pairs onto coordinate grids.

Next Week:

• Monday and Tuesday are half days. Students will be released at 12:25
• Wednesday is a SUPER half day. Students will be released at 11:10
• There is NO SCHOOL on Thursday and Friday for FALL BREAK!
• Again we will not be assigning homework next week due to the short week and conferences. After fall break, we will be back to business as usual with homework Monday-Thursday.

Looking ahead:

• Our field trip to Elden Pueblo has been rescheduled to Tuesday, October 20th. (The Tuesday after we're back from fall break)
• 5th graders will begin practicing Taiko drumming the week we come back from fall break.

We enjoyed meeting with some of you today for our first round of portfolio conferences. We're looking forward to meeting with the rest of you all on Monday and Tuesday! Have a great weekend.

-Ms. Fisher and Ms. Baker

Students of the Week 10/9

Congratulations to this week's students of the week! Angie and Leslie are two students with bright, shiny, positive attitudes. Both of these ladies are kind to others and super optimistic. What great qualities to have in our class. Way to go!

Week in Review 9/28- 10/2

Today we shook, rattled, and rolled as the Fisher Baker Earthquakers at the Mustang Gallop! We had so much fun and ran A LOT. Way to go gallop-ers! Bring in that pledge money next week.

This week in academics:

•  We began a unit on Ancient Arizona Tribes.
• We learned about archaeology, artifacts, primary sources, and secondary sources from our expert's readings.
• We began a math unit on data analysis and graphing
• We continued learning about landforms

Next Week:

• There will be no homework next week!
• Tuesday, October 6th: Field Trip to Elden Pueblo! 
• Wednesday, October 7th: Walk to School Day! (Bring signed permission slip if you want to walk and you normally ride the bus)
• Thursday, October 8th and Friday, October 9th: 5th Grade Social Health
• Friday, October 9th: First day of Portfolio Conferences

 Conference Sign Up Link:
http://doodle.com/poll/6mscd5dbpyxdbsbd#table

Have a lovely weekend!
Ms. Baker and Ms. Fisher