Week of April 15

Monday-

We are writing reading letters to a buddy this week! We choose a topic and write to a friend. They respond to our letter!

On Tuesday, we learned more about a scientist who collects data and writes scientific papers.

 

Wednesday-

 

We are playing with fun Vermont facts! Ask us about Vermont's history!

Mrs. Randall made a fun game to help us learn more about the people in Vermont who work in our government.

We have been working over the last few days on a question we have about Vermont. The more we learn the more questions we have! We worked on our individual mini-research starting with our question, then our claim and evidence to support. We thought of fun ways to share this knowledge with others and presented our findings Thursday and Friday this week.

 

After we presented, our classmates asked us further questions!

Mrs. Randall read us a Vermont history article and then we read it on our own to record more reading thoughts and questions. After, we met with book club friends to discuss our notes so we could dig deeper into the informational text.

Did you know that the Morgan Horse is Vermont's state animal? This was my (Skyler) question and we watched this movie to learn more!

We are now back from break-April 29th!

Skyler and Jacob

 

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Coverage of Boston Marathon-Monday

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4/8-15

Monday

Mrs. Randall started a reading group with certain people . One group is reading What is Scarcity of Resources ? And the other group is reading what are goods and services?

We are starting a unit about Vermont history. We are learning about the Abenaki and Ethan Allen.

 

Jackson shared a new museum web site that we can visit in New York called Museum Intrepid .

Tuesday

Today in math we were working on how many steps to 10,000 in our investigations math book .

Today during read aloud Mrs.Keller read the one and only Ivan partly because Mrs Randall was in a meeting. Before we read Sam. D (discussion director" called on hands for recapping .

Wednesday

In math some kids have their multiplication test.

We went out side and played tennis and basket ball to celabrate beating our paws points

Thursday

Today in Social studies Mrs. Randall introduced a new game called where do they work?

Friday

Today in morning meeting Sadie shared about her quad pod, a quad pod is a mini house.

Math

Today in math Mrs. Randall read us G is for Google a math alphabet book. By David Schwartz. We played a fun smartboard activity on place value.

Reading

Today during reading we were reading our weekly reader and some people are writing a letter to their 8:00 buddy that are due on Friday .

 

At the end of our reading block we went up to the kidney shape table and sorted out our exit slips we had 4 exit slips we put them in a organizer to discuss next week.

We finished The One And Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate .

Sadie is our new vocab enricher. Our new book is Home Of The Brave by Katherine Applegate .

Today we had inside recess because it was hailing out .

At the end of the day, we have current events. We debate issues and use the digital version. The cover story for our weekly reader is "Here to stay". Some topics are cats meow, Who owns history?, the debate of the week is should there be no more printed books in libraries?

Have a good weekend! Good luck to Mrs. Randall who is running the Boston marathon on Monday! Do you know how long a marathon is ?

Lucas and Mia

 

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Week of April first

Monday

 

Today Jackson and Sadie showed their subtraction problem. The problem is Jackson has 99 marbles. He gave Sadie 58 marbles. How many marbles does Jackson have left? Can you solve this problem?

We got a new math bingo work sheet at math intervention. Together we added some choice items and will be working on our sheets for two weeks.

We are reading an article about girls education. Did you know over 121 million people don't go to school, Almost 65 million of them are girls. Some countries don't even think girls should go to school. I don't think that's fair that only boys should go to school, do you think it's fair?

We also read about a kid called T.J. He helped raised $1,325 for the less fortunate people. UNICEF is helping 158 countries and territories get food supplies, clean water, vaccines to protect people from diseases and school supplies and emergency relief to children and their families.

Today in science we talked about properties of matter.

Tuesday

We have a guest teacher today. Her name is Mrs.Cole. Mrs. Randall was at a meeting about literacy. She was excited to share all that she learned!

We read about tigers and how in 1994 scientist predicted tigers would be extinct by the year of 2000, luckily that didn't happen.

Wednesday

 

Some fourth graders are doing a bike helmet safety survey.

We're playing a game called close to 1,000 in math.

Thursday

We got new books for our class library.

We have been working on using the habit of mind -perseverance. Two students are working on a challenging problem solver and not giving up or asking for adult support!

 

We are reviewing are stratiges for subtraction for our end of unit assessment on Friday.

We are reading a new weekly reader called "A fighting chance"

We are watching Night at the Museum today to celebrate our paws points!

We had are end of unit assement today. They were all subtraction problems except for the first problem.

 

In reader's workshop, we worked on reading a text more than once. The benefit is amazing! The text was challenging and was taken from the informational text called Show Me The Money. We read it last week and this week. After buzzing with a buddy, we went around the class playing "give one get one". We give a fact and get a new one from a friend. We now have a better understanding of the facts!

These are some of our questions.

Some of our topics from our Weekly Readers work this week are-

-A famous art museum highlights video games

-Scientists finally film the legendary giant squid

-Should females in the military fight in combat?

-Should singers lip-synch?

 

Thanks for looking at our blog! Have a nice weekend!

Jackson and Aspen

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