Friday, May 25, 2012

Mrs.Randall's class week

Monday
Ms.Yate's taught us for half of the day.

We did a p.o.d which is problem of the day. We used the use or make a table strategy.

We did track and field in gym.

We played math games for math block

We also did a math pg. on The Boston Marathon.

We made Motion graphs and we wrote stories to go with them.

This is Bella's & Abby's Graph

For reading we are doing a chart called: Laguage that signals new learning

We are also reading Storm by Seymour Simon

All of us are reading nonfiction text to practice using language that signals new learning. For example, "I didn' know that!"

Mrs.Randall returns at 11:22

For read aloud we read part of Woods Runner by: Gary Paulsen

For social studies we did a legislative piece called bill passing were trying to agree with the other people In Mr.Botzojorns. The biggest issue for the committee was banning smoking on state grounds and parks.

we passed the 1st part of the bill mabey the second or the third but we will do further discussion

This meeting got heated! A ban on smoking is an issue we all have a strong opinion on!

So does the other class. But should they kill the bill or pass it? Tough choice.

Tuesday

This morning we saw 10 chicks have cracks in them so tomorrow we will have a least 1full grown chick.

We also did a estimation paper consisting of multiplication and division .


We are going over the estimating answers.

Josh is telling us how he estimated this equation.

We are doing a writing project called oh the places you will go. We wrote about what we hope to do or be when we grow up.

At 9:45 am a little baby chick hatched peep peep peep.


Do you see him?

After we saw fireball (the chick). We went to the cafeteria we heard acapella selects from MMU.


When we came back we heard chirping.

 

Here is Josh working on his hot air balloon.

We also read Malian's song by: Marge Bruchac. It was about a young Abenaki girl who lives in the mid-18th century. It is a true story of an attack on her village. We also did postings on this book that showed our reading thinking.

We are reading woods runner by: Gary Paulson . It's about this boy named Samuel who lived in the woods.There are 3 parts to this book.

At 1:20 pm a new chick hatched his name is Anrgy Bird.


Wednesday

Quick share about are speeches for the wax Museum were doing on June 4th.

Almost all the chicks hatched exept one.it might have died. We have 13 healthy chicks!

Playing chess with the student teacher and beating her.but Aaron won!!!!!!


In guidance we are doing crates which is really fun!

We also are reading If you lived at the time of the american revolution. At age 16 you could go in the army.

Thursday

This morning we are going to burry the dead chick and do speeches to represent Johnny.


During math intervention Mrs. Randall showed us a fun game on our class page! We are working on noticing patterns and finding a rule to solve problems. In this site, you have a mission to use mental math and then design a rule.

After Mrs. Randall read us the booK, Oh, the Places You'll Go! By Dr. Seuss, we each made a hot air balloon with what we want to do in the future. They look great!

 

In math we noticed patterns and created algebraic expressions to support our thinking.

we are reviwing our fall unit on interdependence life Science about organisms.

Small groups work together on mini-research projects focusing on our science interpendence unit.

This group is working on butterfly's .

Friday

In Spanish we learned about agreement adjectives.

In math we did math games from our class pages.

In math, we focused noticing patterns and creating a rule to solve. We created algebraic expressions-

(y x 7)+6 = n

In gym we played some soccer. Twe blue and yellow team tied.

In literacy we did a reading survey and some guided reading groups met.



We Skyped a classroom in Burlington to compare and contrast our embryology data.

Good luck to all runners on Sunday! Mrs. Randall is running 26.2 miles, Lily is running 5.5, and Ms. Graf is running 3.1 miles! Come to Burlington and check out the Vermont City Marathon!

Happy Memorial Day! We'll see some of you at the Jericho parade!

Mia and Emaleigh

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Our first born

Our first born! Born at 9:15 am on May 22! Check out our live chick cam on our class web page!

Friday, May 18, 2012

The week of May 14

Monday

We had a bus evacuation drill. We did it in 56 seconds!!

We went to our k-buddies and helped them learn about an animal that they chose before.

We started our science necaps

It is day 11 for our chicks

We started a new unit in gym: track and field.

We finished our element cubes,come in to see them!

Tuesday

We looked at our challenges and went online to strengthen our challenges on math websites

We had our end of unit assesment on volume

We worked on our reports and digital media project for our wax museum

We did our second day of necaps

We watched a video on Vermont. We discussed Native Americans and how differently life was in the 1700s. It was interesting!

 

Wednesday

in math we looked at tempature graphs



In guidance we presented our commercials

In reading we looked at maps of how many thunder storms in a year. We created a chart with the feature and it's purpose.

Thursday

 

Josh shared some cars they were cool


Ms.Randall read us " oh the places you'll go"

We had our third and final day of necaps

 

Friday

We looked at a motion graph

We voted on representatives for our mock legislature on Monday.

It's the end of Friday, closeing off, Aaron

Friday, May 11, 2012

Week of May 7

  • Monday

We went to the Flynn to see Cuentos." We all had a fun time" says Cortland

It was day six for the eggs

We discussed a bill on smoking.We were senators when we discussed the bill

In social studies we worked on our wax museum reports- people choose a person that helped shape or influence VT


Tuesday

Cortland, Cooper, Aaron and Abby were planning for the conference on Thursday at Champlain College.

Some of us practiced our multiplication facts in math

In math we worked on our strengths and challenges, also a couple of us made a movie on imovie with the iPad about math strategies. We also worked on our geometry unit on fitting cubes in a box.

Lily won a 20 runner up up spot for the legacy project which we entered in February.

For a paw celebration we watched a movie called Johnny tremain to relate to our VT studies ''the movie was really interesting'' says Mia.

In writing we went over strategys for necaps. One. Of the strategies is read the question slowly.

In read aloud we are reading Woods Runner . It is about a boy who has a love to the woods and takes place during the revolutionary war

We had indoor recess because it was raining


In social studies we worked on our wax pecies

It was day 7 for eggs


Wednesday

In math we practiced our challenging things in math and some of us planned for the conference
also continued our geometry unit.We worked on volume which is how many cubic units is in a shape.

In guidance we worked on our commercial.


In reading we worked on our element cubes and our wax report

In read aloud we are reading woods runner

It is day 8 for the eggs

In social studies we contined to work on our wax reports and element cubes






Friday

In math we practiced how to measure volume.


Our t-shirt orders came in for our school t-shirt.

In reading we worked on our element cubes and we worked on our wax museum figures

In gym we played a type of baseball.It was really fun
Us candlleing the egg

In spanish we worked on our self discripsons?there coming along.

It was day 10 for the eggs. We also candled the eggs.That is where we look inside the egg with a light."I saw the eyes"says Emma.


Happy Mother's Day!
Cortland and Mia




















 

Monday, May 7, 2012

Our amazing week

MONDAY

In P.E. we played a game like baseball, but you hit the ball with a tennis racket instead of a bat.

In math started a review unit on geometry and measurement.

In writing started working on our reports for the wax museum.

Tuesday

Three people from the Vermont symphony orchestra came and played some instruments all over the world!

During lunch in our classroom, we got to watch a webinar with Rick Riordan.

In the morning we had a page on Vermont government where we matched the people to their branch of government and we went over yesterday's math page.

WEDNESDAY

In library we had our pirate celebration and got to watch a movie, make pirate hats and go on a treasure hunt to find pirate treasure!!!

Mrs.Randall put the chick eggs in the incubator yesterday and when we came into the classroom today, they were there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

During reading we worked on our element cubes!!!

We finished our read aloud, one crazy summer.

Thursday

In art we started self portraits.

In math we played kakooma using negative numbers!

We used unifix cubes to show our work for how much volume was in each box in math.

We looked at a sight about history called "The law of the Land."

Friday

We had morning meeting in the cafateria and read a book. Then we went outside to plant a tree to celebrate arbor day. Each teacher put a scoop of dirt in to bury the tree up.

We had part of our mock legislature and will finish up on Monday.*Pictures coming soon!

We discussed this weeks weekly reader

We had a great week! Sincerely, Lily and Aaron