Week of September 22, 2014

Happy first day of Fall!

We found the factors of 100!

The next day in math, we focused on how we use the factors of 100 to find factors of other multiples of 100.

Each family group worked together to find factors of a multiple they chose. After, we asked these questions to see if our work was accurate, clear and concise before presenting to the class.

Does my work show my thinking?

Is my work clear?

Is my work organized?

Is my solution circled and labeled?

Is my answer accurate?

We Skyped Rick Riordan! He read a section of his new book the blood of Olympus. From the heros of Olympus the book is out October 7th

We just finished the book Dog Days By Karen English. After each book, one of us creates a bookmark and adds it to our bookmark bin. Mia made a cool bookmark!

We talked about what the them of Dog Days.

We are starting the book, The Fourteenth gold fish by Jennifer Holm.

We are I going to skype people around the world about fourteen gold fish! We are part of the global read aloud project!

Yesterday the whole class went to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergnnes, VT. It was a blast! The whole class loved it.

Today we had Guidance,we learned about bulling.

We just read the book The Juice Box Bully By Bob Sornson and Maria Dismondy. We lifted one of our reading thoughts and wrote a paragraph to elaborate.

We Learned about empathy and respect. Those words mean being caring to one and other.

Mrs.Randall is reading Fire Flies and we are noticing how an author reveals a characters struggles and motivations by showing, not telling. We tried this out in small scenes in our narratives.

Team challenge- our Vermont maps!

Mrs. Randall bought more books and gave book talks on some of them...we can't wait for her to reveal all the new books!

We are working on acting out the problem when problem solving. This is what a few mathematicians shared during POD.

We are talking back to the text to help us better understand what we are reading.

Guess who got their cast off? :)

We have found many QR codes in school, home and around town! Come check out our charts in the hallway!

Have you watched our Animoto video from our trip Wednesday? Check it out right here on our blog!

Maybe we will see you at the harvest market! Have a great weekend!

Aidan and Cooper

 

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Check out our Animoto video!

We spent the day at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum!

http://animoto.com/play/BBDOgc6dDZwXrqkDw4J0oQ

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We made it! Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Week of September 15, 2014

Our student of the week is Adah! These are some of the things we learned about her; she likes hats, drawing, and enjoys skateboarding. Next week our student of the week is Alec.

Cooper ran the color run and loved it!! Mrs. Randall and mrs. Lee were there too! There were over 5,000 runners!

Thank you to Owen for bringing in a luna moth cocoon! We are sharing it with Mrs. Dana's first grade class. They will teach us more about what they are learning in the life cycle. This moth should hatch on Monday!

Math menu has started! Our menu lasts for two weeks.

We spent some time investigating one of our science questions using the. NASA site! Do you know why we have seasons?

These two mathematicians are working together on a problem solver!

We all have a knowledge map on Khan Academy! Part of our math menu is spent focusing on a skill we need to practice or a challenge.

One of our math strategies we have used is acting out the problem. We are using different manipulatives or visual models to support our understanding. This mathematician is using a 300's chart to skip count. She is finding the multiples of a number.

Ask us about how to play the game Multiple Turn Over! We can bring math games home to teach you!

Do you know what a factor or multiple is?

Check out our personal newspapers in the hallway! We also created our first QR code!!

In teams, we created a route for our bus driver that will take us to Lake Champlain Maritime Museum next week! We are learning about Vermont geography!

We wrote bio poems to help share information about each other. Then we created a QR code to connect it to! If you want to read our poem, you will need a QR code reader app!

We continued to read books about caring. We each took one of our reading thoughts and elaborated on our note.

Our inspiration board is getting full! We are all inspiring each other!

We enjoyed a nice walk on our walking path, thanks to Andrew! He helped us earn lots of PAWS points!

In our math journal, we chose 5 multiplication combinations that we're challenging for us. Then, we found a combination that we know as a starter equation.

In current events, we looked at a line graph that showed how much space junk has been found over the years.

This has been a wonderful week! We can't wait to show you our QR codes at open house!

Greta and Theo

 

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