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Friday, February 24, 2012
Week of Feb. 20
WE taught a small group our math strategy.
We had ELF which was about birds.
We read about different types of birds.
We wrote a pro paragraph together about why a 16 year old should be able to give blood.
We started a new fifth grade math unit.
We made dances in PE and performed them on Fri.
In Spanish we watched a slideshow about Spain.
We wrote letters to Ms. Minor about an article called Garana's story.
We read a Weekly Reader called Hunger Pains.
Big Change Round Up ends March ninth.
We danced in the halls as a school "paws" celebration.
We read an article called Mask. It was about the history of masks and what they were and are used for.
We danced on the tables as a class "paws" celebration. I thought it was really fun.
We're almost done with our siluettes in Art.
We Researched different types of government and made government posters.
Have a great vacation!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Week of February 13
Monday
In P.E we did Latin dancing and went in groups to do a little dancing skit.
In Math we did fraction and decimal practice.
In reader's workshop, we practiced taking helpful notes and sharing our thinking.
In writing workshop we read the book The Web File by Margie Palatini And we noticed sentence fluency. After we wrote our own short stories using the same author's craft. Short and long sentences.
In Read Aloud we were reading Dark Life by Kat Falls and I really recommend the book!
In Social Study's we talked about the Vermont laws and talked about Pros and Cons.
Tuesday In Music we learned a new song for recorders and it was so fun!
In math we went on edmodo (A website) because Mrs. Randall put on links so we can play games on two websites!
What are readers and writers doing during literacy? Check out the pictures!
We talked about a law (should Vermont ban smoking in vehicles when a child is present) and pretended that two people were our local representatives and two groups to convince the two representatives about there opinion.
In social study's we Skyped a 6th grade class in Glover, Vermont.
Wendsday
At 9:15 we went to music in the computer lab because we were doing music composition!
In writers workshop we had a literacy assessment on a story about a survival lesson in the desert
We learned how to organized our introduction for our persuasive letters. We are writing to our local representatives.
Wendsday
In art we did silhouettes in our mini book
In math Mrs. Hyder came to play games in different groups.
Also in math Mrs. Randall took a small group and same as Ms. Minor. Also we discussed if .90 is equal to 90.0 and we found out that it is not equal.
At the end of math we played a game called math jeopardy .
During reader's workshop, Mrs. Randall showed a group how to up load audio books onto our iPods.
We read and discussed a fun booklet called Under the Golden Dome so we could learn more about our state house.
On Friday we traveled to Montpelier and visited the State House and the Vermont Historical Society Museum.
We were recognized while observing the House.
Bella would like to research Clarina Nichols. She learned about her while at the museum.
Did you know that the House of Representatives has 150members? It is a large red room. The Senate, with 30 senators, is a smaller green room.
We met Mr. Till and Mr. Frank at the state house. We were able to sit in the Governor's office and ask questions and discuss current bills.
I learned that bills have two years to become a law. Out of 1000 bills, 100 of them become laws.- from Bella
At the museum, we saw real civil war artifacts, a train telegraph machine, we could listen to famous speeches on telephones, we saw how Vermonters lived many years ago. We sat in an Abanaki wigwam. We also watched a video about how laws have changed our state, like woem's rights and abolishing slavery.
It was a fun trip!
Josh
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Week of January 30, 2012
Day 1: working on our P.O.D. We Skyped for Where in VT are you? We found out our new friends are in Windsor county! They are in A fifth grade class in Springfield.
Day 2: During music we learned how to do note E on our recorders.
In math we had a great discussion about using decimals. For example, .75 is equal to 3/4.
During reading work shop we read a packet called The Wipping Boy.
We brainstormed descriptive words for this picture before our quick write.
In social studies, we were part of the state government! One person was the governor and some worked in the senate or the house of representatives.
Day 3: During math we took a test on fractions and decimals.
Ms. Minor read us a cool fraction and decimals book about Twizzlers! We got to eat some Twizzlers after! Tomorrow in math we are going to try out some of the math from the book! We learned how you can figure out a baseball players batting average!
We played a game called Decimal Compare! It's similar to fraction war!
We were using base 10 blocks to show decimals.
We have helpful fraction bars that we can move around. They are magnetic!
Game time! We celebrated our pawsitives today! This game was a lot of fun and we got to use our government knowledge!
We brainstormed some sensory words to use in our legacy piece.
We are using Kidspiration to help us brainstorm-the split screen helps!
Yummy! We each got to eat 2.8 Twizzlers!
A group of students writing a funny poem together. We read a great poem called "Sarah Cynthia Stout Would No Take the Garbage Out" to inspire us!
Our K-buddies read to us.
Mrs. Randall read us a book about word choice-Big Words For Little People.
Our k-buddies are good readers!
We wrote stories together! We can't wait to hang them to share with everyone!
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