Our Classroom-2023-2024: January 2015

Friday, January 23, 2015

Week of January 20, 2015

An informative webinar!

Lunch and learn! We participated in a webinar with a researcher from Antarctica! We learned about this continent and the penguins she studies!

We did go noodle for our jam, the jam was called kitty high five! Each day our jam master organizes motor breaks. Go noodle is a fun site!

Have you ever done a web quest before? We learned more about our state by traveling around specific websites to answer an interesting riddle.

It was a fun team challenge!

Congratulations to Aidan, Greta, Celia and Theo for working hard on fact fluency!

Dance party for Celia!

A special request...a cape and cool sunglasses for a dance party!

A plan for your hands.

Edmodo- a news article from VPR, Malala speech, and book responses!

After, we post our reply and discuss on line.

Readers work responsibly during readers workshop.

This book club are using "be the teacher" bookmarks to guide the discussion.

A group playing the game "Inference" where you need to read between the lines.

Svieta was student of the week!

In math menu, some of us are making subtraction tutorials on the app Educreations.

We got together with some fun first graders to decorate our handshakes!

What are you passionate about? We have been writing about causes we want to support.

We are learning more about our government.

Someone turned 10 today!!!

Congratulations to Greta! She finished multiplication on Friday!

Our fabulous photographer this week posing with mrs. Randall for her birthday!

Your friendly neighborhood bloggers,

Alec and Greta

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

School-wide celebration

Our whole school created handshakes to celebrate showing respect to self, others and property so we can have fun learning together!

Giving a handshake is one way to show respect to others!

We worked with a first grade class. They thought the plaster felt funny.

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Week of January 12, 2015

Ms.Johnston was our sub teacher for part of the morning Monday when Mrs.Randall brought her children to the dentist.

Andrew got a class celebration and the class got to watch a video called Mouse for sale. Thank you Andrew!!

Four winds focused on air! We did four fun experiments!

After four winds, we created diagrams of our investigations. We also recorded all of our questions to use for future experiments!

We also wrote in our writers note books about an opinion that we had. This one is about pandas!

Here is our opinion chart that we have.

Many of us shared our strong opinions!

In math we did a team challenge to show the effect of double/halving.

We have been exploring habits of mind all year. We are now taking a closer look at managing impulsivity.

Greta read I am Malala for us. Sometimes we choose a guest reader to give Mrs. Randall a break.

We did a many fun JAMs this week!

We conferenced with third graders! They are researching China. We learned a lot!

We presented our independent research projects on A Vermont product/industry and how it supports VT economy. After, we posted them on Edmodo so we could all take a closer look.

We gave a demo to the other fourth grade classes for our school-wide handshake project. This is what it looks like. We can't wait for Tuesday!

We had a lively discussion on current event topics!

Students are working at the inspiration table.

This is a fun game we have been playing as part of math menu.

In readers workshop, we are trying out a strategy called inferring. We are inferring meaning of unknown words while reading a news article about the Titanic. Mrs. Randall added a cool blog post fom National Geographic on edmodo for us to explore and build background knowledge.