In honor of, I ♥️ to READ month! 5th graders helped their 2nd grade buddies make corner bookmarks!! #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Wednesday was GLOBAL PLAY DAY! So of course our entire 5th grade class worked together to construct the ultimate fort! ⛺️🌎💛 #theMESway

5th Graders are working hard to meet their reading fluency goal!! #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Students participated in an #AVID Classic Philosophical Chairs to debate #shouldkidshavedebitcards #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Wrapped up a week of flashlight reading with our buddy class! #theMESway #AVIDatMESI 🔦📙📚

This week we talked about all the ways to organize and analyze data! Each day we added examples to our notes to help us keep track of all of them! #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Marking the text has become an everyday reading strategy for these awesome fifth graders it’s helping us become more organized readers! #reading #science #math #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

5th grade students have been exploring Sphero Robots… today we even used them to… PAINT!! They were inspired by Jackson Pollocks drip/splatter paint technique! #sphero #STEAM #theMESway

Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster??? These students practice a passage all about “Nessie” then they took what they read and turned it into a one pager! #AVID #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Students collaborating with their peers to demonstrate their learning to answer questions about matter! #matteriseverywhere #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

5th grade students worked with their 2nd grade buddies to mark the text, find details and determine the main idea of a story about eagles and eaglets! 🦅⁉️ these students even challenged their buddies to think of a higher level question! #buddies #mainidea #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

“Should You Have Naps In School?” was the discussion of our philosophical chairs debate today! Students stepped out of their comfort zone, shared their thoughts and challenged each others thinking! #whatsyourvote #theMESway #AVIDatMESI #AVID

Today we did a Scholastic News Scavenger hunt! Ss had to identify different text features, cut them out of a Scholastic News and paste them around the room on the coordinating poster! #AVIDatMESI #theMESway #ScholasticNews #Scavengerhunt

Played a little, Products 4 in a Row with some highly engaged 5th graders! They had to think strategically about the moves they made while competing against their classmates! #theMESway #4inarow #mathworkplaces #winnerwinner

5th grade students participated in a gallery walk of the construction of their buildings for BRADco. Loved how Bridges used this as an introduction into expressions, equations and volume! #math #theMESway #AVIDatMESI

Loved watching these awesome students share their thinking about rectangular and composite rectangular prisms with a Bridges Math Forum! #collaboration #theMESway #AVIDatMESI #5thgrade #volume

Do The Belong in Zoos? We had a great speed philosophical chairs last week! #AVIDatMESI #theMESway

#MarkingtheText Fifth graders are practicing critical reading skills while marking the text for important information #AVIDatMESI #theMESway Montrose Elem (MESI)