Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Short Week, Big Fun!

Here are some highlights!

* baking pancakes- lots of toppings and maybe multiple helpings!

* Adrien's grandmother came in for two days for amazing art and crafts!

* Minute To Win It games- lots of challenges!

* Crazy sock day!

* Creating our own show! Once a week on Fridays we will host a morning show!

* A holiday movie and a surprise from Mrs. Randall! Yummy popcorn from Essex Cinemas!

* Pokemen Math!

http://animoto.com/play/Jph289ExUAY07ucWm7gl4w. This is a glimpse of our two days!

Happy holidays!

Emmy and Anna K.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Week of December 14, 2015

We made a slideshow to send to our friends in Argentina. After, we put the slides together with video we made (we spoke Spanish in the video)!

Focusing on our reading letter. We are finding evidence to back up our thinking to help our audience better understand.

This is an example of an ABC format paragraph that we wrote together.

Readers focused on their jobs. This reader is using one of our telephones to work on fluency.

This book club is sharing their text.

This week's second step was about Managing anxiety.

Working hard to complete this week's problem solvers. These teachers are working hard correcting papers.

Thinking hard!

Kate is working hard to keep track of student progress and which small groups she needs to meet with.

This week's P.O.D. We are working on area.

We made models of 3x40 after a fun number talk.

During wondering Wednesday Avela Skyped a scientist studying penguins in Antarctica.

This book group presented about the book Scarcity of Resources.

This is the solution to another P.O.D.

On Monday next week we will make pancakes. Anna is planning what we will bring in.

We made shapes out of polygons.

We did a museum walk of our products/industry.

We started part two of our non-fiction read aloud book.

Adrien was student of the week. Next week it will be Eva.

Mrs.Stone brought in some gifts for our classroom! Thank you Mrs. Stone!

As writers, we tried out the boxes and bullet structure. We also explored student examples.

Team challenge in math!

Mrs. Randall played a fun song in math- just a boring square.

Have a great weekend!

Natalie & Beck

 

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Check out our Glogs!

Below are links to some of the Glogs we made using Glogster!  We focused on a specific VT county and a product/industry that makes an impact on that area.  Let us know what you think!

Ben and Jerry's Industry

Farming

IBM


Friday, December 11, 2015

Week of December 7, 2015

We got a cool video from our new friends in Argentina! We learned a lot about their country!

Have you ever heard of the Heifer program? We are learning about economics and poverty in social studies and in our read aloud book! You should check it out!

We watched some videos about economy. The first one is about the dollar bill, and we learned that the two symbols on the back of it are the two sides of the great seal.

On Friday, we did bedtime math and learned about a person who printed counterfeit money. We did math about $50 and $100.

We have been working on hour of code this week!

On Friday it was sports day. Lots of people wore their jerseys!

We work on our #bookselfies.

More ways to reply to text!

We started our geometry and length/width units.

Anna K. and Alek finished multiplication! Congratulations!!

Our student of the week! She had a very large "me" bag!

Our Jam Master has been busy leading some break motor breaks and calming exercises.

We participated in a virtual field trip to China! We gathered questions for Anthony so he can answer them when he Skypes us from there!

Mrs. Pratt taught us a new game called Collaborative Cards. We worked our brains really hard and figured out the answers.

We checked our work with friends and taught each other new strategies.

After we do our math work, we use this template to self-check.

We watched this calming down video on GoNoodle. It was about not giving up and we thought that it connected to Mrs. Randall's group.

We are doing opinion pieces in writing. Below, we are working on I wonder opinion pieces.

We use this template for our opinion pieces.

To show what we are thinking some of us drew pictures for our I wonder pieces in writing.

We are writing bullets of things and people that we love and are important to us.

We are calling and E-mailing our businesses.

Mrs. Randall's reading group is learning about taxes.

We write in our notebooks about things we love. Owen shares his cool mechanical toy skateboards.

We started a new math unit! Geometry and measurement!

To learn more about geometry, we used glow sticks to make shapes. We started with basic geometric shapes, then got more challenging. Mrs Randall is starting an after school math program where you can do fun stuff like this!

We are making continuous squares!

This group made lots of small squares...60! We also use styrofoam balls to make 3-D shapes.

We use triangles to make hexagons.

We use the glow sticks to make a base and stick tiny glow sticks in the balls to make them glow and make a pyramid.

This group made a 3-D cube!

From Emmy and Owen