Today in 5th grade we...

- Celebrated the start of the school year by participating in our welcoming mass.

- Completed our first interactive math journal lesson about place value decimals.

- Pretended we were archaeologists by studying "artifacts", categorizing them, and making observations and inferences about where they came from and how they were used. 

- Explored how scientists learn about the natural world by making an origami weather predictor and comparing it with scientifically measured weather predictions. 

- Signed our classroom constitution. 

Homework: 
Math - Workbook p. 6 
Social Studies - Write a paragraph comparing the difference between a historian and an archaeologists (textbook p. 11 #5)  

 Here are some pictures of our class participating as the choir and alter servers. 

Here are some students preparing their decimal tool.

Here are the 5th graders showing me they know how to place decimal numbers in their correct columns.

Here are some students categorizing their artifacts. 

Here are two groups presenting their observations and inferences about their artifacts. 

Here are some students creating and using their origami weather predictor.