Week of October 27, 2014

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This week...

*Jackson shared his me bag as student of the week

*In math Mrs.randall taught us how the us algorithm works and connected it to breaking numbers apart in place value. Using expanded notation is helpful.

*In second step we focused on strong Emotions.

*In readers workshop we focused on,Girls Education. We reviewed what we learned about monitoring our comprehension.

*In our class room there was a mouse in our recycling bin!!!! ## mice are cute.

*Owen brought in a fun game to share.

* In writing we are focused on how to read through the lens of a writer. We ask specific questions of the text. For example, what does the author want us to know about this?

*We invited Mrs. pack's class in so we could hold a writing conference and teach them about how to create cool strikes on Storybird. We each have a first grade buddy to guide all year!

*In our reading letters, we are making statements about one character from our book and backing it up with evidence from the text. We are keeping track of the character's thoughts, actions, words, and what others think about them.

*The book Fox, is one of our mentor text in writing. We read and discussed why the author might have made the choices they did.

*Isabelle completed multiplication in Fastt Math!! We had a fun dance party to celebrate!

*In math, we had a family challenge to create a tutorial video for a third grader showing how to solve an addition equation using different strategies that are efficient and effective. We used the app Educreations!

*In science, we researched questions about gravity and what happens on the other side of the Earth when we have day. We read a cool book called Gravity by Jason Chin.

*Many students are giving book talks!

* One reading group focused on a news article on how to handle bullying. They created a poster and will share it on Tuesday during all-school meeting.

*Mrs. Randall finally got her projector! We are excited!

*Did you know there are 10 rows of 1,000 in 10,000? We created a large visual to understand large numbers. We use it as a resource.

*We worked hard over the last week on Sumdog!! Our hard work paid off!! We won the chittenden county math competition!!! Our next competition will be before Thanksgiving break.

## Mrs.randall is awesome

Ask us about this book!! What do you do with an idea?

An informative Skype with Ms. Fary's science class at CHMS

PAWS celebration-a Halloween web hunt!

Current events-many hot topics!!

Thanks for reading!

Alex and Miranda

 

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