Week of Oct. 17

Free slideshow made with Smilebox Monday- We practiced our bus evacuation We Skyped our buddies in Illinois and asked them some questions about their school and state. We decided to create math videos to share with so that other students can learn more about math. We started with how to divide and how division connects with multiplication. One thing that was interesting about our Illinois buddy class, was they don't have a hot lunch program at their school. Each student (k-5 school with at least 5 classrooms in each grade) brings their own lunch every day. They were very impressed with our lunch program! Tuesday- We continued with our NECAP tests. "I thought it was easy!" says Will. We played a fun game called Missing Factors in math. It helped us by using arrays to find the quotient. In music we sang songs. We got a new student named Ceilidh. We are happy to have her! Welcome to our class Ceilidh! Wednesday- We went to the library to get new books. We played tennis! It was very fun! This was a celebration for exceeding our pawsitive goal. We practiced getting to the closest multiple in math. Ms. Minor taught a lesson on creating multiple towers. I thought it was fun to see how many multiples my body was! Mrs. Randall invited Mr. Bouchard in to tell a cool story about the legend of the Wolf Cow. It helps us remember the 14 counties. Groups worked together on our science models to show rotation and revolution. Thursday- In art we learned about radio symmetry In math we played division math games from our class web site. There is one really fun game that you have to put a bunch of numbers in a division equation to make it work. Our class chose a news reel for our math video and we put it together and posted it. We worked on using our spelling words in Spellingcity. We typed sentences using our words. In social studies we are researching a county that we chose. It was fun to use GoogleEarth to walk the streets in our county! We don't have school tomorrow! Have a great weekend! Will and Josh

Week of Oct. 10

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We had an awesome week! Together we did a great job raising hands to be respectful to others! We exceeded our goal of 250 pawsitives! We helped Mrs. Randall notice 257 pawsitives!
Here are a few of the things we learned this week-

• how to write division stories
• what to do with remainders in a division equation
• more about the sun-did you know the sun is 93 million miles away from Earth?
• what does revolve and rotate mean
• Vermont's land is broken up into 6 physiographic regions
• "I am learning more about Addison county" says Josh
• "I learned that Blackbeard, the pirate, was real" says Emma
• "I learned more about Washington county and how it has our state's capitol within it" says Abby
• "I learned more about Orleans county" says Cortland

Here are a few of the things we did this week-

• Completed the reading section of the NECAP test and the first math session
• Mrs. Randall gave a book talk on a book called Smile.
• Ms. Minor came in on Wednesday and helped us with math.
• In PE, we played a game called Colony ball (it's similar to kickball).
• In Spanish we learned how to say some weather words.
• We completed a couple lessons in our cursive books
• We played a grains of rice game on the computer to practice math and give back to others.
• We played a math jeopardy game.
• We created a notebook page of all our county information
• We worked with our science buddies to plan our sun, moon and Earth model.

Have a great weekend!
Emaleigh and Mia

Week of Oct. 3

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Monday-

• Mrs. Randall shared that she qualified for the Boston Marathon last weekend!
• We learned about how to divide-we multiply and subtract
• We switched our desk arrangement to the "Queen's Walkway"
• We made a list of what to show our families during open house

Tuesday-

• We created our VT county maps and worked with a buddy to learn more about one of the counties. We created a table that showed the shire town, the shire town has the jail and the courthouse
• we had a guest teacher named Ms.Cole she was very nice.
• In music we sang a poem called "Farmer of Leeds"

Wednesday-

• We met with a buddy and then revised our "I am..." piece.
• In guidance we looked at communication blockers
• We took a closer look at division problems with remainders

Thursday-

• We hiked Mt. Phio! The hike was tiring, but the weather was nice!
• We looked at invasive species of plants-Buckthorn and Knotweed, signs of wildlife, human impact, and we sketched leaves and discussed signs of fall
• We wrote poems about what it means to belong to a group

Friday-

• We rode scooters (a four-wheeled platform) in PE
• We had a clear the halls drill
• Abby (our student of the week) shared her "me bag"

Rock on,
Will and Aaron