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

There's nothing worse than feeling like you are only assessing kids... am I right on this one?  I really don't have any issues with ...

My district is looking into creating formative assessments that will be aligned to our Enduring Understandings.  Because of this, my team cr...

We've been exploring the themes of stories- through our "just right books", read alouds, as well as the stories we enjoy toget...

Sorry for the delay, I haven't been on here in a while.  I'll update some things over the weekend. For the past few weeks, my 5th ...

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...