Our Classroom-2024-2025: Week of December 2

Katelyn joined our classroom today! We are happy to have her join our classroom family!

During reading we are working on our element cubes with our just right text. We are finding evidence from the that as we analyze the main character.

This year our helper teacher is Mrs. Mccuin.

During math we started a new unit , which is geometry,

We are looking at different ways we can measure things

For social studies we looked at our geography of the green mountain states test and listed what we need to work on.

Also we slit up into groups and played a Vermont geographic game!

Today for Math are focus question was how can benchmarks help us estimate length accurately . We measured Mrs. Randall's height.

Also we did some measuring and persevered in our math work.

For second step we learned how to solve problems and reviewed our lesson STEP.

Also today in calm we are learning about Germany and learned about the 3B's and we did some games from Germany.

Julia is the student of the week so she shared her me bag

During reading Bella and Nolan both had a goal to read to page 100 and 105 and they both went past their goal, also Abbey found a really strong sentence "sunburn on my heart".

Mrs. Randall read a book called Happy Endings. It is all about suffixes, we listed all of suffixes that were in the book. Word study groups are focusing on adding suffixes to base words.

When we were in the computer lab we revised our secret knowledge of parents piece, this is our working progress that we put on the board.

This is our finish progress

At the end of the day we went to the computer lab and did a Vermont puzzle which was a web scavenger hunt!

Today was our last review of S.T.E.P . Also we did a paper which was called Solving Playground problems

If you don't know S.T.E.P this is what it means!

During reading we got our Weekly Reader with news articles and we worked on thinking stems to house our deep questions.

When we were at the computer lab we typed our letter to self (My Unstoppable Tips).

Today for math we were working on perimeters and perimeter problems

This is Mrs. Randall's presentation of perimeters

Today Mr. Lane came in and we did an activity and we learned about joining in on second step.

During the starting of reading we glued in problem solving steps and the checklist for solving a problem, also we wrote how to make a plan in our writers notebook .

During reading the boys were reading 39 clues. This is a popular series!

Also Taylor , jack , Nolan and Justin collected the 39 clue cards

For math we started off with a math page to get our brain warmed up! We reviewed what to do with remainders in division.

Jack made this poster to remind us of our weekly PAWS goal! We keep our posters on our class door to remind us how to show respect to self, others and property.