Escape from 1983!

On Thursday we split into three groups to do a digital escape room where the premise was to return from an inadvertent journey through time where we ended up stuck in 1983! Roller skates, floppy discs, wild colors, cassette tapes, boom boxes, and Rubic’s cubes! Thank goodness we escaped! All three groups were successful!

Thanks to  Amy Boyden and Deb Fritz for helping me navigate three simultaneous Google Meet sessions! Thanks to Tanya Yero for creating and sharing the challenge!

So far, six students have completed their country report paragraphs and begun building their websites! For a good model of where we are heading with this project, please visit our fifth grade Continent/Countries website!

This past week marked the end of Words Their Way Spelling for the year. Students will be focusing on writing and building their countries websites and on reading and responding to geography articles on Newsela (quiz and written response). There are also written assignments that go with the read aloud sessions.

We have moved on to a multiplication and division review on Khan Academy (and Prodigy), having wrapped up 2-D geometry. The last thing we will do in math is computation using decimals.

There are new chapters of Number the Stars to be listened to (and one more set on the way this week).  There are written responses every few chapters. I hope students are enjoying the book!

Look for information on the Sixth Grade Farewell!  As a reminder, our last day of school will be Monday June 15.

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