Friday, September 30, 2016

Week of September 26, 2016

Annabelle was our student of the week! She shared her me bag.
Word study groups met and sorted their pattern. We work with patterns for two weeks. Ask us about a game we played on Spellingcity.
Reading partners buzz about how they mark up the text using post it notes.
We started writing reading letters to Mrs. Randall.
We reflected on which multiplication combinations we are working on.
Then, we used the area model to use what we know to figure out combinations we don't know. Cd
As writers, we are thinking about how we delelop a character that is complex.
Book talk

In math, one strategy we use to find all the factors of a number is a factor rainbow.

We also use the area model to break apart numbers into arrays we know. We use square units when finding area.

Math menu- problem solvers take time to complete!

We use tiles to model our math thinking.

Wondering Wednesday! We innovate, create, design, or research our ideas! Her are some examples of students using heir questions to spark ideas!

Building community at morning meeting.
Vermont studies- geography and symbols

Have a good weekend,

Parker and Eliza

Friday, September 23, 2016

Week of September 19, 2016

Our classroom family lead our all-school morning meeting! We shared our book talk video. If you didn't have a chance to watch our video, we posted it last week on this blog.
In science, we planned an investigation on how to use kinetic and potential energy when making a roller coaster. Watch Here
We are focusing on habits of mind and rated ourselves to help with individual goal setting.
#characterday. We watched a couple of videos that helped us see how valuable it is to focus on positive character traits. We then discussed which ones we value most and created posters to highlight our top 5. We hung them up in the classroom.
Magic beads!! As scientists we explored the power of energy both inside and outside. We have a theory that they change with uv rays.
Check out Mrs Randall's reading gloves! Reading a just right book does fit just like a glove!
Here are some book talks from the week!
Look at all of these thoughtful post it notes! Talking back to the book helps you better understand what you are reading.
Book talk
Berkeley was our student of the week! She is sharing her me bag.
This is a slide greeting!
Focus-Gaining a better understanding of the characters in our books. We watch for their thoughts, words, actions, and feelings.
Author's Chair!
Other writers are listening with attention to show respect to others.
Using a model to show how we save multiplication equations.
We played a couple games to find factors and multiples of numbers.
Tommy's birthday!
It was a fun week! Have a wonderful weekend!
Alex and Caleb

Friday, September 16, 2016

Week of September 12, 2016

Here are some of what we enjoyed this week!
-Worked with Mr Barry! We were inspired by his book talk video so we asked him to come in and help us inspire other readers! Here is our video! Watch Here
-You ask who is Mr Barry? He is the former principal of Richmond Elementary and now works for our district.
-Monday we had library and Spanish for the first time
-Science- we are working on learning more about energy. One of the activities we did was make rubber- band race cars.
-Friday was whole school celebration for hat day! We posted a video we made in our last post.
Here are some photos Annabelle took this week! https://animoto.com/play/EkYKpwS4UyS7KlLYN0SBkA
By Annabelle and Jason

Check out our JES celebration video!

JES celebrated our PAWS points today! Here is a glimpse of our hat day! All photos and video were done by Annabelle and Jason! Great teamwork!

https://youtu.be/GInKtjXh290

Friday, September 9, 2016

Week of September 6, 2016

Hot Topics:

PAWS celebration- classroom family soccer game

We made Google Spreadsheets for our usernames and passwords

Scholastic News digital version is great!

Narrative writing- creating personal newspapers

Reading nonfiction text

Letting others know we care- listening with attention

Finding factors of numbers using a factor rainbow and making arrays

Read aloud- the Hot and Cold Summer

Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon- check out our advice wall

Growth Mindset

Planting in our school garden

Bedtime Math challenge

We practiced talking about a book "buzzing"

Here is the slide show we created for our pictures this week!

https://animoto.com/play/1HsXcZTurNnrIeAFM8hJ2g

Have a good weekend!

Peter and Berkeley

Friday, September 2, 2016

Our first 3 days!

These are some of the many books we read over the last 3 days!

Morning meeting- focusing on how we greet others in a respectful way.

We got to know each other better by doing a fun Nearpod lesson on the iPads. We were inspired by this video!

Working together!

Choosing some inspirational quotes!

Making our ingredients list on what makes us.

Here are some of of our inventions!

We wrote time capsule letters to ourselves! We will open them on the last day of school!

Helping nurse Amy make basil pesto!

Choosing class jobs!

Using Google Drawing to illustrate how we were feeling on the first day of school.

A class scavenger hunt.

One of the ways we can take a motor break during the day! Here is our stair master!

Working in family groups to develop a team name. Then we created a poster for our desks.

We got writer's notebooks!

Sharing our hopes and dreams. We helped each other develop plans and asked for support people.

Have a wonderful weekend!