Friday, November 30, 2012

Week of 11/26/12


This is a picture of some of our math work. We are connecting our multiplication equations to an array.
This is a picture of a Vermont state puzzle made by Jackson,Sam,Maliek,Taylor.

We finished reading the book Epossumondas by Coleen Salley and talked about how and why an author chooses words. We then created our own word list in our writer's notebook to use as a writer. Did you know that writers choose words to be accurate or to help the reader create a vivid image?

Today we had are first day of snow at school!!!!!

We are working on Vermont maps for our class Skype and test.

We had visitors from Rumney school.

Mr.lane told us that people have different perspectives and we should respect that.

On Wednesday we had Mrs.Johnson for a guest teacher for the afternoon. Mrs. Randall had a meeting in Richmond.

We are almost finished our book at read aloud, The Circuit. It's from the perspective of the author "Francisco"

In Mr.Bouchard had an Ah-Ha moment in class during math!

This is the problem he had that Ah-Ha moment.

We are learning how to use a new multiplication app on the I pad for math menu time.

People in Mrs.Randall math investigations group played a math game called Guess my Number.

In ELF, we took a closer look at the parts of a Lima bean. Did you know the seed plumule is next to the stem?

We had a visit from our K-buddies today and showed them are solar system project.

We organized our schedule to read to our K-buddies throughout the year. Once a month each one of us will spend time reading with our buddy!

 

 

Have a great weekend

By Jackson and Taylor.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Week of November 12

P.O.D was challenging this week. we are learning about a new strategy called "guess, check, and think/revise". It's helpful when the problem gives you only the total number and that you have to split it the way given. Also if it says one person has twice as much as the other person and you don't have a clue, it gives you time to "think and revise" .

We shared our informational presentations and we wrote interesting facts from each presentation to write about after we finished. So far our pages are cramped up with cool facts!

We also did a "night sky observation" where we learned how to use a night sky locator and where the constellations are in this time of the year and what the planets look like. Some people are keeping logs on what they see in the sky so they can share it with us.

For our read aloud book were reading " the circuit " a memoir by Francisco Jiménez. Mrs. Randall appoints two people to be our " discussion leader " and our " Vocab enricher " the vocab enricher helps people build there vocabulary and in this book it seems there Spanish vocabulary. Our discussion leader asks people to recap so people can know what happened last if they weren't here.

In our Vermont study's we're doing a Skype project called " Where in VT. Are you?" It's very interesting because you gather questions in different groups and when we did the project on Friday our " Question commanders " ( Abe and Sam D. ) ask the person were Skype-ing questions to give away there location. It's quite fun!

During intervention we split up into groups and work on strategies and then come together and use those strategies to do our work and make Mrs. Randall proud of her work. This week we're learning a game called Missing Factors . And learned that a divisor is a " number by which another number is divided" and a dividend is a " number divided by another factor."

During snack on Tuesday J.P. shared his chickens and he and his dad told us facts about them, I noticed one that it looked like a cheetah and Jordan P. said that it's its name should be cheeka ... Which is Spanish for a girl.

We also did writing prompts about November . They were beautiful and really said stuff about what the person thought of November and thanksgiving.

We got to chose our " Paws points" celebration it was theme day! And the theme was ( drum roll please ) Career day, I think we might have to add the chart it's so much fun!

 

We played a fun Vermont geography bingo game to learn more about our state.

Sadie brought in her puppy Levi for share and through the ooo's and ahhh's we managed to take a picture of Levi and Sadie together.


Happy Thanksgiving, Isabella M. Souza and Jacob Scott M.

 

Friday, November 9, 2012

Week of November 5th

Last week we voted on our new desk arrangement for the month of November!

We discussed different ways to show respect for property in the coat area. There is a lot of stuff in there!

 

Authors chair!

Vermont

We labeled maps

In social studies we are reading about the regions of Vermont

 

A paragraph

Going to mt philo. The view was amazing! We completed a scavenger hunt, ate lunch, wrote poems about belonging, and shared how it feels to belong to a community.

 

The top!

We created a video of some of our pictures using Animoto.

Lunch on my philo was fun and J.P and Sam.d(who's face is half covered) are having lunch in this picture.

 

It was classroom and mt philo

Mt.Philo was fun and 968 ft tall

 

Science questions about the universe! Black holes,Pulsars,Planets,Stars and more!

Lunch choice. We discussed the importance of making a decision and sticking with it. This shows respect for others who have signed up as well. The lunch ladies only make enough food for those who have signed up.

 

Trip to M.T Philo

We did lots of division stories and multiplication towers stuff like 28x5 and 40 divided by 3. Some of us used an app called Educreations to make tutorials. We will share these!

 

Have a good weekend,

Abe and Mia

 

Week of November 5th

Last week we voted on our new desk arrangement for the month of November!

We discussed different ways to show respect for property in the coat area. There is a lot of stuff in there!

 

Authors chair!

Vermont

We labeled maps

In social studies we are reading about the regions of Vermont

 

A paragraph

Going to mt philo. The view was amazing! We completed a scavenger hunt, ate lunch, wrote poems about belonging, and shared how it feels to belong to a community.

 

The top!

We created a video of some of our pictures using Animoto.

Lunch on my philo was fun and J.P and Sam.d(who's face is half covered) are having lunch in this picture.

 

It was classroom and mt philo

Mt.Philo was fun and 968 ft tall

 

Science questions about the universe! Black holes,Pulsars,Planets,Stars and more!

Lunch choice. We discussed the importance of making a decision and sticking with it. This shows respect for others who have signed up as well. The lunch ladies only make enough food for those who have signed up.

 

Trip to M.T Philo

We did lots of division stories and multiplication towers stuff like 28x5 and 40 divided by 3. Some of us used an app called Educreations to make tutorials. We will share these!

 

Have a good weekend,

Abe and Mia

 

Friday, November 2, 2012

Week of Oct. 29

 

We are talking with a NASA Scientist to find out about asteroids. We Skyped him! We found it funny that asteroids are just lumpy shapes.

We didn't have school on Tuesday due to hurricane Sandy.

 

Mrs Randall started a new book called The Circuit. It is a memoir about a family traveling to California from Mexico.

 

At guidance mr. Lane talked about feelings.

 

We earned our paws points so we watched a movie about the solar system.


We are working on mini research projects. This is a picture of a science notebook. We are researching different topics.

 

Each of us changed one variable to test.

 

Bumpy surface.

 

A slope

 

Working on our Friday Morning POD. We are using the strategy-make a picture or diagram.

At math we are solving division stories.

 

We are celebrating Jackson's birthday by eating BIG cupcakes.

On Friday we eat lunch in our classroom. We get to eat with friends anywhere in the classroom.

 

We discussed the news articles in our Weekly Reader, used the digital version, and learned about the different question types. Some questions you use the text-right there or think and search or on my head-author and me or on my own.

Have a good weekend!

JP and Skyler