Week of November 3, 2014

Here is a link to our video-a glimpse of our week!

http://animoto.com/play/9aUAhqBgW00rqzoHIqmcgQ

This week we got a new Scholastic magazine. It was very interesting!

In math, we played a game called changing places. We were working on place value. Each card had + or - and we were working with large numbers.

During morning meeting, a reading group shared their work to start a "be a buddy, not a bully " program. Check out their poster by the tv in the front hall.

In writers workshop we used a mentor text called In November. We read through the lens of a writer and noticed the authors craft. After, some of us tried out this technique.

In science, small groups worked to explain key vocabulary so they could explain the relationship between the Earth, moon and sun.

Andrew wore the perfect shirt for this project!

Our JAM Master leads our motor breaks each day. On this day, we were doing a complex yoga move.

We are supporting some third graders on how to make a focus statement and back up their thinking with evidence. We will head back on Monday.

We've heard some great book talks this week! Check out some of them!

Some readers wanted to research more on this invasive species from our news magazine.

We are thinking deeply about books and responding to them.

This chart shows some of the features we noticed.

We played broken calculator. It was challenging!

We worked together to figure out different equations.

Congratulations Mia for becoming a multiplication master!

Elbow buddies were sharing their addition and subtraction strategies.

Owen brought in a baseball magazine and he and Mrs. Randall discussed the Yankees.

Author's Chair is when authors share their writing and ask for specific feedback.

We read and discussed Vermont's physiographic regions.

We made a statement and then backed up our thinking in math.

Miranda was student of the week! These are some of the things she brought in to share.

We had our PAWS celebration and we ate lunch in the classroom and watched some Pixar shorts.

We are persevering on challenging problem solvers!

Playing Muggins and Fudge in math is fun!

We are making connections between all three books in this series. Have you read these books?

We marked up the text in this cover story to better understand what we are learning.

Mrs. Randall read part of this book to us and we discussed some predictions based on evidence in the text.

Thanks for reading our blog!

Alec

 

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