Friday, September 30, 2011

Week of Sept. 26

  • Monday: POD-we learned how to make a table to help us solve a math word problem
  • Finished up our personal newspaper
  • In reading we opened all our fluency stations
  • In PE we focused on fitness and health
  • In math we practice solving story problems
  • We had a class basketball game outside on the courts to celebrate meeting our pawsitive goal
  • In read aloud we are reading the book School of Fear...
  • In morning meeting Mrs. Randall read us a book called A Chair For My Mother and we talked our Pillar of Character-Caring
Tuesday:
  • In music we sang a birch tree song
  • In word study we used a fun site called SpellingCity.com to play games using our new words
  • We had our pictures taken in the library
  • Mrs. Randall taught us how we can talk with eachother on a site called Moodle. We watched a cool science video and then posted our thoughts. We could also reply to someone's post. It was awesome!
Wednesday:
  • We had ELF and learned more about bugs. We caught some bugs outside!
  • Ms. Minor came for the first time today. She is our student teacher and will be here on Wednesdays.
  • We did Fastt Math
  • We had a class meeting and created "positive peer paws". This is for us to give positive comments (fill someone's bucket) to our classmates. Some expected behavior we are noticing is keeping our mouths resting in the hallway, buzz quietly, include everyone and keep our hands to self
  • We had our multiplication assessment. It was very exciting because a lot of people got 30 out of 30!
Thursday:
  • In art we made mandellas
  • In math we broke numbers apart and created arrays
  • We played a game called Big Array/ Small Array
  • We learned about a program called Kidspiration. We had a chance to explore it and some of us are using the graphic organizers as a way to respond to text
  • Mrs. Randall taught us how to elaborate by using a format called the ABC Format. We wrote one together from our read aloud book
Friday:
  • We did a cursive lesson in our books
  • We did a pacer test in PE
  • We did over 100 jumping jacks in Spanish because we were counting to 100 in Spanish
  • We read this week's Weekly Reader and will be discussing it this afternoon.
This was a fantastic week!
Cortland and Mia




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