Friday, September 27, 2013

Week of September 23

Author's Chair!!

Take a good look at our chair because it will change! Our classroom family will be painting our special author's chair this week and decorating it next week.

We had a dance party to celebrate our class exceeding our pawsitive goal! It was fun!

We are all having fun doing J.E.S jams!!!

We are reading some crazy awesome read aloud books in our class.

We are all working on very hard on our writing.

We practiced some strategies for writing in our writing notebook. Readers are noticing when meaning breaks down and then we use a fix up strategy to help us better understand the text.

Math is challenging this week so make sure to ask your son/daughter some math questions for our multiplcation test tomorrow!

Ask us about creating a factor rainbow to track factors of a number.
Making arrays!
Using manipulatives in a respectful way to support our math thinking!
Three students shared a response to text they faced timed on their google docs and came up with an idea so they made a I movie and came to mrs. Randall. She showed them how to put it on edmodo. Now we can all watch and reply.

Our student of the week shares his "me bag".
Writers created a heart map to house memories that are close to their heart. Some lifted an idea to begin a new entry in their writer' notebook.

On Wednesday some of us sandpapered our author' chair so that it's ready to paint tomorrow!

On Wednesday we had elf and we learned about spiders and arachnids. The word arachnids came from a Greek god. " spiders have terrible eye sight even though they have eight eyes" there are a bunch of different kinds of spider webs all over the world. Elf was very fun and we got to go outside and search for spiders and play spider games.

On Thursday we skyped another state in the U.S.. We asked each other some questions about their state. And they asked us some questions.

 

This is our teacher and their teacher skyping

We have a multiplication test every Wednesday and these are the people who got 30/30 two times!! Congratulations!!!!

We focused on how we get help in our class room on Thursday

On Friday we had a debate on wether animals should be kept in zoos or not.

I hope you were interested in what we did this week

Have a good weekend!!! Abbey

Friday, September 20, 2013

Week of September 16

On Monday we had to tell Mrs.Randall in writing about how good what we were doing in reading at home and at school.Then we had take closer look at our weekly reader. In our math packet practiced our multiplication.

Our math focus: using what we know when are solving a multiplication equation. If I don't know 9x7, I ask myself what I do know and start there. We will be bringing these cards home to help us study our facts.

Next we learned how to use kahn academy! We took a pretest and Mrs. Randall set up our math lessons. Each of us is working at our own level and pace. After, we typed on are google drive accounts a bio-poem about our self personality.

Word study work! Here some students are working on a job in Spellingcity.

This student is using their list to notice patterns and sort. He is working with prefixes!

After we finish a text, we think about how we want to share the book with others. This student is writing a book review. He will add this to our class recommendations binder so we can get book ideas from each other! Some kids have sent their responses to New York City to be published in our Weekly Reader magazine!

Some are reading biographies! We are learning a lot about other people.
Do you know what factors and multiples are? Ask us!!!
Our Jam Master has lead some fun Jams! This is us taking a motor break.
We have school spirit!! Our school celebrated our pawsitive behavior with school color day!
Check out this marvelous math work!!

We have been working on our factors with a factor rainbow.

We were comparing even and odd numbers with multiples.

We also in math started working on our math menu.

We also started working on a problem in the math menu called the window pane.

We have been also working on or P.O.D/problem of the day.

Look at these invested students in math.

We started in social studies about Vermont Geography. We try to find like what we know about Vermont about what places are in Vermont like Towns,Cites,and Lakes.

 

We had to look on a map and see if we can find like Vemots state capital,State parks,and more.

 

The line leader get's to bring in a me bag the line leader of this week is Nicholas

It's picture day!
We are learning how to be support crew to our classmates. We ask them questions to help them think aboutthe math and give them encouraging words!

We watched a video and looked at a chart to know empathy. Then we worked on a sheet to help us practice.

 

In math we used act it out or use object strategies to find the factors of 100, 200, and 300. We used 300 charts and manipulatives to help us!
These two students are playing a game called multifactor.
This student is working in his knowledge map on Khan Academy in math menu time. We are each working on our own skill level at our own pace. Ask us to show you what we are working on!

We looked at this weekly reader about around the world and what people eat in pass the bugs please.

 

We also have been reading a book called the hot and cold summer by Johanna hurwitz.

Have a good weekend from avire and Justin.

Friday, September 13, 2013