We brainstormed things that scientists do on index cards and then used them for our first STEM challenge

We reviewed nouns and adjectives today! Each student wrote and exchanged post-its with random nouns/adjs. We had some silly quick write prompts: purple mold, gloopy paper, sad giants, and many more!

Our first hands-on science lesson had us collaborating, measuring, calculating, and jumping as we explored the effects of gravity. Tomorrow, we will compute and compare our jumps on different planets! Thanks Mystery Science!

Community building isn't just for the first weeks of school! We keep growing and trusting each other all year with games like "Stick Friends" #d25itspersonal

Learning how to do the WIN Time challenges created by Jen Lynn! Use mathematical reasoning to explain your Would You Rather answer

When the weather is this nice, taking literacy work outside is really the only option 🌤

Working on our creativity as writers by doing speed round inspiration sentences! Ideas were flowing!

Sometimes the power goes out so we get to do a spotlight read aloud in the LMC. #seethegood #d25itspersonal

Leave it to 5th graders to discover that you can use Goldfish® as sidewalk chalk #d25itspersonal

Got a lot of pictures of the class that I INTENDED to put on Twitter for the last month or so. Get ready for a photo dump. I swear we didn't just have one incredibly busy day 🙂

We practiced writing with evidence from the text by joining the #FatBearWeek debate. Students wrote persuasive paragraphs with evidence from each bear's bio!

Starting off DEEP in my photo gallery with some candids from Sunrise Lake! We learned so many leadership and collaboration lessons that day!

As our narrative unit comes to an end, we say goodbye to our writing partners for this unit! Students have built trusting relationships that enable healthy writing feedback! #d25itspersonal

Before starting our final narratives, we learned from the best by doing a Patricia Polacco author study! Students identified examples of high quality writing for us to learn from!

We learned all about the colonies by reading mystery letters and cross-referencing them with text evidence to determine where the writer was from!

A Palmieri tradition for the week of Halloween...using estimation skills and sampling using Google Maps, estimate how much candy is in the entire neighborhood!

I never even posted all of the amazing costumes from our Halloween party! I'm almost caught up now! More classroom joy coming

One of my favorite warm ups is "What did they do right?" We use our #mathmindsets to identify and count all of the correct math moves we see and then end with the one error they spot and discuss why the error may have been made. #d25itspersonal #d25mathrocks

Getting so excited for the big Chompers' Day Parade. The Balloons Over Broadway inspired #STEM activity had us designing balloons and driving them using our Sphero "engines"! Can't wait to host a parade for the 1st and 2nd graders that will rival Macy's #d25itspersonal

We had so much fun hosting what I hope could be the first annual Chompers' Thanksgiving Parade! Sphero balloons were a success! 🦃 #d25itspersonal