Week of Feb 16, 2015

Today we worked on a problem of the day. We used information from the problem to find out how many kilometers OSHA traveled. We used 44, multiple of 4, and divisible by 5 and 8.

In readers worked shop we worked on infer meaning throughout features

Mrs.Randall gave us a article that was called community life. At closing meeting we each said how the text features helped us infer in the Maya community life.

We did a where in Vermont Skype. Mia, Porter and Owen are figuring out what questions to ask Mrs.Cioffi's class at Mallets bay school. They are our question command center and use a flow chart to pick questions. We asked them qustions to find out where they are located.

We Skyped Mrs.Cioffi class at Mallets Bay school. She used to teach with Mrs. Randall!

In math we used a cool site! It is called visual fractions.

A bunch of people have added to our tweet board, ask your child to bring home a tweet sheet and we post it on are tweet board!

We are writing argument pieces on a topic we feel strongly about. We are sending these amazing pieces to Mr.Till and Mr.frank (our local representatives).

This week we focused on fractions!

Congratulations to Greta! Her work is highlighted on our Marvelous Math wall this week!

This is what happens when Mrs.Randall steps out of the room#selfie.

 

On Tuesday we did wondering Wednesday. We are making some cool things. Aidan and Amos

Aidan and Amos are making a maze for Aidan's lizard and Svieta and Theo and Alec are making some armor.

We love Four Winds!! Mr. Burkins came in and taught us a lot about sound!

Ending with a song...priceless!

In math workshop we explored fractional parts of a group. We shared our strategies and backed up our thinking with visual representation.

Weekly Reader Magazine- we had a great discussion and debate. This is the "sticky situation". What advice would you give?

Book clubs presented their text and made connections to what we are learning in our civics/government unit.

Mentor text! We have explored many text that use the craft of opinion. Today we self-assessed our draft and will hold peer conferences when we return from break.

Our math launch today was a fun Nearpod lesson!

We use visual models to help us compare and add fractions! Fraction bars, a number line, or the area model are helpful!

Discussion directors lead as we explore Weekly Reader magazine.

We also play a fun game that requires players to use what they know from their reading.

It was a great week! See you in March!

Mia and Adah

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Our Tuesday ski selfie!

It was a cold and fun afternoon!

Week of Feb 9, 2015

Reader' Workshop:

Today in reader's workshop our focus was to infer the meaning of words. We read an a non-fiction poem on the moon. We asked many questions, used our background knowledge, and buzzed with our reading buddy to better understand the text.

Aidan and Cooper are reading about the moon.They talked about how the first people landed on the moon.They also talked about their books.

Math Workshop:

In math we talked about angles and played with protractors and power polygons. This is one lesson we did to measure angles.

We also hade a cool brain warm up where we use power polygons to find our answer.

This is an example of someone's math strategy to solve a division equation. We always start with what you know.

This week we practiced finding the area and perimeter.

Second Step-we are creating comics to show what empathy is.

In second step we did a review on all the skills we have learned! We are also getting our family to participate in using these skills at home!

How are you doing practicing these skills in your daily life?

In social studies we try our best to ignore distractions while we work as a family in our Under The Golden Done Booklet. Mrs.Randall set up a game and she called the people who were focused. The game is called On The Road to Congress.

Read Aloud: our new book is inspiring us to complete random acts of kindness! What have you done lately and expected nothing in return?

Good job drawing this art work Amos.

Mrs.Randall is reading a cool book called the boy who loved math.The main character is Paul. Did I tell you about him loving math? Oh right that is the cover of the book.

The people who finished under the golden dome worked in a small group on understanding how a bill is created and what happens to make it a law. We worked in a booklet called The adventures of bill.

In math We hade a team change it was stressful, but fun. One of them was measuring the whole class room! We measured the dimensions and then multiplied them to find the area.

We have two more multiplication masters!! Keep practicing! Great effort everyone!

We have some new vocab enrichers and discussion directors for read aloud! Aidan and Greta.

We read these books they are all about civics and government.

We worked on Geoboards we mached the shape and found the area.

In writers workshop, we are writing opinion pieces. We have been building a strong argument to support our thesis.

We read an awesome book! It is my favorite book that she has read this year. I think the ground hog is a one sided Sid. We are reading many different books that are written with a strong opinion.

We all know that Mrs.Randall is the person with the big red book. Miss Books convinces her students that they should keep reading until they find the right book for them.

We participated in the world jam contest.

Conferenced with a buddy to share our introduction paragraphs and our plan for evidence.

These are some of our book recommendations!

We took time out of our math block to revisit our habit of mind, seeking accuracy and precision. We each reflected on our previous word splash and chose one to focus on. We shared how important this habit of mind is in life, at any age! How does this habit of mind come up in your daily life? Please comment on our blog!

We played some fun games to learn more about our science unit, properties of matter!

Happy Valentines Day!

Your friendly carnivores,

Mia and Owen

 

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