Welcome to Mr. Kiel's 5th Grade Classroom!

In math, I'm trying to help my students with understanding number concepts.  They understand whole numbers, but struggle with negative n...

Follow my class on Twitter!   @kielclassroom My purpose in trying Twitter was for a few reasons.  First, I wanted to introduce students to...

Each day, my students participate in 60 minutes of a small group/independent work time for our literacy block (after our 30 minute shared re...

Once the school year sets in and we get into our routines, I like to start rewarding students for doing their job.  I wanted to use a checkb...

Today, my 5th graders reviewed for a math test.   Not only did I want them to review for the test, but I wanted each of them to start advoca...

For the past month, my 5th graders have been working on character.  My teaching partner and I wanted to take character to a higher level, ra...