School Year Off to a Fast Start

First Quarter Almost Over

by Kayla Lange

October 07, 2010

It is hard to believe that 9 weeks has nearly passed since the first day of school. The 5th and 6th grade students are hard at work here at Glasco Elementary and are learning a lot of new things!

The 5th grade science class is wrapping up a chapter on our Human Body Systems. The students have been exploring how blood flows through our bodies, how we breathe and how we digest food. The students did a few fun activities as they got to observe their pulse resting and then after they exercised. They also did a bubble activity to see what their lung capacities are. The 5th grade has been learning about expressions and multiplication properties in math class. The students made their own checker boards using the distributive property in order to represent the area of a rectangle. The 5th grade math class is a very motivated and determined bunch of kids!

The 6th grade science students are learning about reproduction. We have been exploring the many ways traits are passed from parents to their offspring. The students are starting to notice all the traits they themselves received from each of their parents. The students just finished an activity called “Genetics with a Smile.” Students built their own smiley face child using given traits based upon dominant and recessive alleles. This activity was a lot of fun and their smiley faces turned out to be very creative! The 6th graders have been very busy in math class these days as they have been working on multiplying whole numbers, dividing by two-digit divisors, using problem solving strategies to work backwards to find the answers to their problems and using methods to find orders of operations.

As was stated earlier, the students have been very hard at work, but feel they are having some fun along the way!

6th Grade

Back Row L to R:	Michael B, Karl T, Hailey S, Sarah S, Ruby A, Mandi L and Ethan S
Front Row L to R:	Austin W, Brianna S, Jakob N, Whitney E, Rayna S, Drew M and Kris B. Not pictured: Sara C