January Learning Events

This week in Mrs.Whitley's classroom we have been working on a new project. We are setting up the Water Step project at our school. The Water Step project is a non profit organization that collects donated shoes and sells them to an exporter and the money they get from that goes to giving water to people in 3rd world countries. We did this because every 60 seconds a child dies from unclean water. Our project will start on February 1st and end on February 28th. We hope to fill 4 WaterStep boxes with shoes.  

 

 

Our class made posters to put up around the school telling people to donate old shoes, we had people tell about it over the announcements, and we had people write a script to tell about it on newscast.  

 

This week we also did an activity where we had either a nonfiction text feature or text feature definition taped on our back. We had to give each other hints about our text feature and you had to find the person that had the  matching feature or definition. 

Our class made posters for the third annual Fifth Grade vs. Teachers basketball game. The teachers have won for the past two years but this year the students hope to change that. We have a great team this year and they want to win badly. Us, fifth graders are determined to win. Last year the fifth graders lost by 1 point so we think we can beat the teachers.