Week of November 10, 2014

We just watch a live video about a Rosetta landing on the comet! The landing was success and we have landed on the comet! The interviewers said that the success was outstanding and we shall learn some of this information. In the process 20 space agency's helped on this mission, allowing the mission to be a success. Our mission has only just started, next step is to explore our data. We have only just begun... What do you think we will find in the data? What type of rock? Will we find life or fossils? What do you think?

Here is a link to our video!

http://animoto.com/play/CghFcJV8Y8IkMxnMDDiqVQ

Highlights:

Aidan and Mia were students of the week-shared their me bag

Cooper and Jackson finished Fastt Math

We practiced us algorithm and expanded notation

We learned about erosion in Four Winds

We finished our read aloud book. The author read the last chapter to us and we participated in a Google Chat with her.

We started our new read aloud book- a memoir I am Malala.

We participated In another Sumdog competition! It was a national one with over 7,000 classes! We came in 22nd place!

We took a closer look at mentor text in writers workshop and wrote thesis statements and gathered evidence using boxes and bullets to organize our thinking.

We worked with our 3rd grade buddies to conference with responding to text. We also signed them up to participate in Sumdog with us.

Our 1st grade buddies came in to watch some cool Brain Pop videos and we made thanksgiving placemats for each other.

We talked back to the text by asking thoughtful questions

We got some new books for our classroom library!

Mrs. Randall got new gloves that say, "a good book fits just like a glove!"

Isabelle shared her trip to. NYC

We played some fun geography games using the Smartboard!

We used pedometers to track our steps each day. We are working on adding and subtracting large numbers.

Alec shared his hockey stuff

Mrs. Randall read a cool book about what do you do with an idea, and we generated many cool ideas! We hope to dig into them throughout the year.

We tested our thesis-it's ok to be messy and see if we have enough evidence to back it up.

We are responding to text and adding pieces to our Read Box

We took a second look at our math expectations. Together we brainstormed some ways to self-check.

Using the NASA site we used our 3-D glasses to see some cool images!

It was a fun two weeks!

Theo and Cooper

 

 

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Stop the math madness! :)

Students engaged in another fun math contest! This time a national competition!

 

 

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Guess where I am!

Happy Veterans Day

Week of November 3, 2014

Here is a link to our video-a glimpse of our week!

http://animoto.com/play/9aUAhqBgW00rqzoHIqmcgQ

This week we got a new Scholastic magazine. It was very interesting!

In math, we played a game called changing places. We were working on place value. Each card had + or - and we were working with large numbers.

During morning meeting, a reading group shared their work to start a "be a buddy, not a bully " program. Check out their poster by the tv in the front hall.

In writers workshop we used a mentor text called In November. We read through the lens of a writer and noticed the authors craft. After, some of us tried out this technique.

In science, small groups worked to explain key vocabulary so they could explain the relationship between the Earth, moon and sun.

Andrew wore the perfect shirt for this project!

Our JAM Master leads our motor breaks each day. On this day, we were doing a complex yoga move.

We are supporting some third graders on how to make a focus statement and back up their thinking with evidence. We will head back on Monday.

We've heard some great book talks this week! Check out some of them!

Some readers wanted to research more on this invasive species from our news magazine.

We are thinking deeply about books and responding to them.

This chart shows some of the features we noticed.

We played broken calculator. It was challenging!

We worked together to figure out different equations.

Congratulations Mia for becoming a multiplication master!

Elbow buddies were sharing their addition and subtraction strategies.

Owen brought in a baseball magazine and he and Mrs. Randall discussed the Yankees.

Author's Chair is when authors share their writing and ask for specific feedback.

We read and discussed Vermont's physiographic regions.

We made a statement and then backed up our thinking in math.

Miranda was student of the week! These are some of the things she brought in to share.

We had our PAWS celebration and we ate lunch in the classroom and watched some Pixar shorts.

We are persevering on challenging problem solvers!

Playing Muggins and Fudge in math is fun!

We are making connections between all three books in this series. Have you read these books?

We marked up the text in this cover story to better understand what we are learning.

Mrs. Randall read part of this book to us and we discussed some predictions based on evidence in the text.

Thanks for reading our blog!

Alec

 

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Bring on Jeff Kinney!

We got our tickets and new book!!!