Week of November 7

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This week we...

• In our social studies assessment, we wrote about how a county is affected by a specific physical feature. For example, the Winooski River has an affect on the town of Richmond because it helps keeps the soil moist. A downfall is that it can easily flood the area and have a negative effect on the town.
• Making Mathematickles is fun! They are words in equations that link to the theme of "fall". I liked adding the illustrations. Our bulletin board looks good!
• Our Glogs are looking good! They are posters we are creating on-line. We each have our own account and are adding information we've learned about the county we chose. It's fun to use all the different tools!
• We helped our K-Buddies with their senses assessment. We brought them on a 4 senses (not taste) walk on our walking path. They noticed a lot of little details about touch, sound, sight and smell. We heard/saw tennis players playing on the courts.
• A fun and challenging assessment in math this week was, measuring the length of our classroom. I used measuring tape and used feet and inches.
• We had many authors share their work this week at Author's Chair! We had topics on everything from "In November..." (a writing prompt after Mrs. Randall read us a book called In November by Cynthia Rylant) to fiction stories.
• We continued to use the strategy "Use or look for a pattern" in our POD. One of the problems was, "The Monsters of Muzz opened on Monday. The first day there were 25 people who saw the movie. Word got out and on the second day 42 people came, 17 more than on the first day. At the end of the second day 67 people had seen the movie. On the third day 59 people came, 17 more than on the second day. If each day 17 more people saw the movie than the day before, on what day would 500 people have seen the movie?" **Challenge-post a comment on this page and let us know if you could solve this problem!
• We have begun our project "Where in Vermont are you?" We are skyping different classrooms around Vermont and trying to figure out their county, town and school name. We have developed specific questions and are using GoogleEarth to narrow down. Some of our jobs are Question Command Center, Tech Crew, Messengers, etc. This week we found a classroom in Addison county. This is much easier than our first project-Where in the U.S. are you? :)
• Using yard sticks/foot long tiles in the hallway, we measured 100 feet. Did you know that 100 feet begins at the recess door and extends through the first door on the opposite side of the fourth grade hallway?
• We found many body benchmarks for measuring. One of the most useful is our handspan! We had a variety (from pinkie finger to thumb) of lengths from 7.5" to 6". We measured four different objects with our hands.
  
• We read a book called How Many Days To America by Eve Bunting and discussed the book's theme. We are keeping track of our understanding while reading and sharing our thoughts and I wonder statements. It was about a family who left their country by boat to come to America for a better life. Two of the themes we discussed were perseverance and immigration.
• In this week's Weekly Reader we read and discussed articles about which famous American has our stamp of approval and how a U.S. veteran received a top medal for his actions.

Have a good weekend!
Abby and Cooper