Friday, September 18, 2015

Week of September 14, 2015

We are learning more about Vermont's physical features!
We continued to explore Vermont's counties and what specific features impact that area.

Once a week we test our multiplication fluency. After we graph our scores to notice improvement and celebrate!

We took a closer look at multiples and factors. We played a game called multiple turn over. Ask us about it!

We are buddy checking! We have specific questions we ask each other to help us work carefully.

Our Second Step focus for the week is listen with attention. There are 4 parts to listen respectfully to let the speaker know we care. Let us show you!

We did some role playing in class to practice listening.

Math warm up! This is one way we warm up our brain for math block. We love Bedtime Math challenges!

In writer's workshop we are focusing on how fiction writers think about the plot of their story. We tried out how to use story arcs to think about the plot of our story.

Finding a comfortable spot to write in my notebook.

Thinking about our character helps us create a believable protagonist with internal and external features!

This is one of our mentor text for reading and writing. We are noticing how the author's craft focuses on building background knowledge so we better understand the main character.

In our own text, we are reading intensely to grow ideas! Look at how we use post it notes to track our thinking!

We buzz with our reading partner.

This is one of our anchor charts.

In math menu we are using some fun iPad apps like math duel!

We are using models to hold our thinking as we problem solve.

Adding marvelous math to our class board!

Check out this work!

Sharing math strategies

We joined Edmodo! Ask us to show you our online discussion board!

Fun news!

Mrs. Randall was student of the week! Next week Anna V. will be student of the week! Don't forget to bring in your "me bag"!

First time geocaching

Ask us about our digital version of Scholastic News!

We participated in a mystery Skype! We figured out they are in New Jersey! We will collaborate with them throughout the year!

Happy Friday!

Anna K and Aidan

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