April 22,2016

This week: In keeping with the hands on - minds philosophy, students have been self directed and on task as they continued to monitor and record the progress of their mummification experiments. 

 Students are excited to be mummifying their oranges. Now they  are  getting grossed out or goofed out with some of their observations!

   

When all the data is in, students will have to summarize their experiment and make their conclusions about Mummification.
Some of our mummified oranges may not make it to the afterlife : (             Those unworthy will be devoured by the goddess Ammut  known as the devourer of souls.

                                                                                                             

Recording their observations

Designing their death masks for their mummy

This one is growing mold!

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Decorating the tomb!

TIME LINE POSTERS

Once their observations were made, students used their class time to research the pharaoh's and achievements which made the Middle Kingdom Great! (or not so great, as we learned about slavery and the consequences of empire building)
Students have begun making a Time line poster about this period.

Up-Coming Events:  Egypt's New Kingdom

King Tut, Ramses II, Hatshepsut, Valley of the Kings, Decoding the Rosetta Stone and PARCC Testing

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Ask your child about their proposed product!

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days.

Last week:  Students have been researching mummification. Slide presentations started last week on Mummification are due Monday for A groups, and Tuesday for B groups. (I placed a slideshow self check up on Google Classroom

Students are responsible for their own presentation, however, they are encouraged to collaborate with one another.  It is great to see students helping one another, solving problems, and sharing discoveries.

This week:  Students were excited to begin mummifying their oranges. Working individually and collaborating with a team, students had to prepare, measure, and perform observations of their individual mummy.   

Pictured are students using the triple beam scale to measure the initial weight of their mummified oranges. Over the next days we will be weighing and making observations of their mummy's progress. When all the data is in, students will have to summarize their experiment and make their conclusions about Mummification.

Students are expanding their understanding about some of the Egyptian gods and goddesses involved in the mummification process and the afterlife.

Up-Coming Events: 

Next Week students will be learning about some great Pharaohs of Egypt.

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Ask your child about their proposed product!

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days.

Ancient Civ

Friday, March 11, 2016

This week:  Students completed and turned in their completed posters!  Below are some pictures of their work.  Wednesday and Thursday students completed a Research Simulation Task which asks the students to decide if it is OK to remove historical objects from other countries. We discussed the movie "The Monuments Men"  which was about an American military unit sent out to recover, protect and return artwork stolen by Adolph Hitler's forces.

Students thought this was an interesting topic to write about

Mr. Vogel, is this good?  There's more on the back!

Awesome!

Proud of their work!

We have the smallest poster! (Pages fold out)

Tallest poster!

We are smiling!

Very cool design!

Up-Coming Events: 

Next Week we will be learning about pyramids and how they were built.
We will have a quiz Thursday (A groups) and Friday (B groups) on vocabulary words and big ideas covered in class. 

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Ask your child about their Candy Bar Challenge

Mr. Vogel's Corner:

 SUPPORT THE BYRAM TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION TRICKY TRAY

  This great (adult) event will be held Saturday, March 12, 2016 

The best part is the homeroom with the 

Biggest & Bestest Basket 

will receive a prize!!!

Mr. Vogel's Theme is 
fun in the kitchen

(kitchen goodies)

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Ancient Civ

This week:  Students prepared for their vocabulary and BIG ideas quiz. These grades should be posted today.

In class students discussed symbols which represent our culture, and our government. Students then began to research How the Egyptians set up the worlds first Unified government.

Vulture goddess and Cobra Goddess

         A war led to the Unification of the two lands

They discovered that there were actually two Egypt's,  Upper and Lower each with its own special symbols and kings.

Up-Coming Events: 

Students 

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Students are cooking up ideas, deciding which products they want to sell, learning a lot about how to be successful in their business.

Mr. Vogel's Corner:

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days

This week:  Students began work on their posters. It's great to see students excited about what they are doing in class.  The nuts and bolts of this assignment are posted on Google Classroom, the final product is more hands on, combining researching, writing, and artistic challenges.  

This was not sent home to be completed as homework (yet). However, several students asked if they could continue working on this at home. 

Up-Coming Events: 

Students will complete their posters, and develop another set of vocabulary words and big ideas.  No quiz date set yet. Wednesday and Thursday students will be working on a Research Simulation Task which asks the students to decide if it is OK to remove historical objects from other countries.

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Ask your child about their Candy Bar Challenge

Mr. Vogel's Corner:

 SUPPORT THE BYRAM TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION TRICKY TRAY

  This great (adult) event will be held Saturday, March 12, 2016 

The best part is the homeroom with the 

Biggest & Bestest Basket 

will receive a prize!!!

Mr. Vogel's Theme is 
fun in the kitchen

(kitchen goodies)

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days.

Ancient Civ

This week:  Students prepared for their vocabulary and BIG ideas quiz. These grades should be posted today.

In class students discussed symbols which represent our culture, and our government. Students then began to research How the Egyptians set up the worlds first Unified government.

Vulture goddess and Cobra Goddess

         A war led to the Unification of the two lands

They discovered that there were actually two Egypt's,  Upper and Lower each with its own special symbols and kings.

Up-Coming Events: 

Students will be creating posters in class explaining what  role their government played in creating one of the worlds most advanced and stable civilizations in human history.

What's Happening In Interdisciplinary?

Mr. Vogel's Corner:

 SUPPORT THE BYRAM TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION TRICKY TRAY

  This great (adult) event will be held Saturday, March 12, 2016 

The best part is the homeroom with the 

Biggest & Bestest Basket 

will receive a prize!!!

Mr. Vogel's Theme is 
fun in the kitchen

(kitchen goodies)

IS THERE A TIME FOR EXTRA HELP?
When possible, the fifth grade staff has made our rooms available to students looking for an opportunity to work on assignments during our shared lunch period. Students can find Mr. Vogel in his room on most B days.