Week of May 23, 2016

The chicks have hatched!

We created a short iMovie that we will post next week!

Keeping watch over our chicks and remaining focused during reading.

Another beginning hatch!

Our brooder box. 8 chicks have hatched.

Our new books arrived from local author Chris Tebbitts!

Our official sign arrived for our Little Library! Adrian's grandmother will be coming in next week to help us paint it! She is an amazing artist!

This is what it looked like while being built!

Lots of peer conferences this week on our informational writing!

Working on our visual presentations

Observing speed over time in math.

Multitasking in math menu...split screen-chick cam and Sumdog!

Giving our motion graphs context!

Science- interdependence

DCF readers Skyped BRMS with Mrs. Babbitt!

One of our class greetings this week! Do you know how this worked? Think circuits...

Final book club presentations! Historical fiction readers discussed the importance of knowing what is fact and what is not.

Thank you Mrs. Adams for being a book club facilitator and guiding this wonderful skit for Green Mountain Hero! We will post he video next week!

We enjoy eating outside when the weather is nice!

Track meet- we made a video we can share next week!

Happy Memorial Day! See you at the parade!

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Week of May 16, 2016

Congratulations Alek! He is now a multiplication master!

 

Eva is learning the importance of bees!

Friday cafe! We ate outside today! We all had so much fun!

Today we set up the chick cam. To watch, go on our class page and click "chick cam", and watch and see if any of the eggs hatch!

Two students worked on their presentations for the wax museum. Good luck!

Anna K. is working hard on her poster for the wax museum. It's going to turn out great!

Friday we had a math talk with Mrs. Reinhardt. We thought hard and did some great math work.

Have a great weekend!

Emmy and Anna K.

 

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Week of May 9, 2016

These are some of the recent book talks. Adrien was the lucky reader to put his hands on this new book!

Choose your own adventure book!

Chris Tebbetts and Liza Woodruff came in and we asked them about the writing process. It was awesome!

Mr. Bill Frank and Mr. George Till came into our classroom to respond to our argument letters. They also shared the results of some of the bills in legislature.

We received feedback on our American Revolution historical perspectives videos. You can check them out on one of our earlier Blogs.

Scientists working attentively so they don't procrastinate.

For Ms.Pratts last day we watched a Peter Pan movie.

We wore our VT t-shirts for a surprise.

Ms.Pratt and Avela passed out pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and she got presents for teaching.

For a reading lesson one group of people read one book and another group read another book and then we discussed about the main idea of a each book as a group.

We presented our field guides and went on a museum walk. We learned more about how Vermont organisms depend on each other.

Easton brought in his drone to share. Mrs. Randall was scared it would land on her head.

Book clubs met multiple times this week to discuss their historical fiction text.

We participated in a Skype with Kate DiCamillo! We asked her a few questions and she answered one of them.

Have a great weekend,

Beck and Natalie

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