Friday, March 27, 2015

March 23, 2015

 

To start off our week we had 1/2 day. Many of us led our conferences.

Adah gave a book talk on Black Beauty.

Be yourself! In this story Sam learns to be himself! The Tales Of A Redhead presented by Mia!

Working together on a challenging problem solver!

The fourth grade participated in a Skype call with Senator Leahy. He was busy voting on bills in Washington, DC.

We have brainstormed many of our ideas for Wondering Wednesday.
This is one of our Edmodo posts
This scientist brought in a nest she found and then researched to find out more during Wondering Wednesday.

Some worked on creating comics.

Andrew shared a book response

We connected our prior knowledge of fractions to decimals.

New multiplication Masters for the third trimester

Motor break! We love Just Dance!

Koo Koo Kangaroo is also a fun one!

Using a number line to help us work through multipliying fractions is helpful!

Our Jam Master is choosing a relaxing yoga motor break.

We each have our own bar graph to keep track do our growth in multiplication.

Digging deeper into news articles.

Author's Chair! We have many experts who are sharing some of their informational pieces.

Science was fun today! We had a group from Saint Michaels College that preformed chemistry magic! Here are some photos of these mad scientists.

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In math we are doing 10x10 squares and filling in fractions.

Here are some of our mentor text for our informational writing. We are looking at different text structures.
Good luck Alex in the big game!

Your science loving reporters,

Greta and Porter

Friday, March 20, 2015

Week of March 16, 2015

In P.O.D I used a chart to organize my thinking. We used information from the problem to notice a pattern. After, we applied the pattern to find out which day they noticed over 90 snails.

Math block- looking at data and creating a line plot
We ask ourselves these questions as we work, to show respect to self and others.
Using or creating visual models as we work with fractions is helpful!

On Tuesday we all had our class PAWS celebration! We chose tech time!

Readers are writing letters about what we are reading to Mrs. Randall.

Do you understand the adventures a bill goes on while at Vermont's State House?

Readers workshop focus: using text evidence to infer themes. We pay attention to our gut reactions.

Mrs. Randall is reading us... Cheyanne Again.

Using visual models with fractions

Using a fun program called Icivics!

On Wednesday we had inside recess because it was so cold!

Do you need a book recommendation? Check out our Read Box!

We sent in our inventions! Wish us luck

 
Do you know an of these people? We hope to meet some of them on our field trip on Friday!
Focus questions for property of matter unit

We worked on the POD before math menu and we discussed what strategy we used.

We worked in math to find answers for subtracting fractions.

We did math on the whiteboard.

We worked on a lot of fractions this week. Can you see how we used a number line to multiply fractions?

This is Greta's work for YWP! We wrote to some cool prompts for Vermont Writes Day!

This is one of the jams we did this week

We had Four Winds.It was about clouds!

We are reading Pay It Forward

We had a great time at our field trip! Check out our previous posts!

We watched the House discuss different bills introduced.

We went to the VT History Museum and went on a tour!!!!!!!!!

Your Friendly Bloggers,

Miranda & Andrew :)

#weareboss!