Friday, January 29, 2016

Week of January 25, 2016

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Check out the above link for a quick photo story of our week!

Here are some highlights from our fun week!

* Cool science experiments! Watching how popcorn kernels change states!

* Many new book selfies on our Read Box!

* Practicing the Problem Solving Steps was very helpful! It's surprising how often we use these steps every day!

* Gathering data, choosing how to represent that data and then analyze!

* Multicultural book day- Mrs Randall read lots of books that connected with different cultures. #readyourworld

* Virtual field trip to a conservation place for elephants in Florida. Did you know elephants have four teeth? Check out this picture of the inside of their mouth!

* Do you know which material helps an ice cube melt more slowly? Rock salt, sea salt, sawdust, sand, or cotton balls?

Wondering Wednesday! Mrs Randall brought in a cool building set with motors and some kids brought in Legos to build and create.

Anthony presented his month long visit to China! It was entertaining and informative!

We created survey questions! Next week we will conduct our surveys and gather data. You will see results next week!

Have a good weekend! See you in February!

Taylor and Aidan

 

 

Friday, January 22, 2016

Week of January 19

We reviewed double digit multiplication using the area model.

Happy birthday Mrs. Randall! Evan asked Mrs. Randall to do a super hero pose. #tryingtobefancy

Members of the VSO chorus came to perform.

Math Club after school on Thursday held the Toilet Paper Olympics!

Four Winds- We learned more about squirrels! We felt real pelts and studied real skulls.

We did some fun activities for area and perimeter! We made our name plates with different area and perimeter challenges.

Our symmetrical designs are posted in the hallway! Check them out!

We watched some fun videos and sang songs to help us remember he difference between area and perimeter!

Icivics- Choosing a civics/government topic and building evidence to support our thesis. We are creating a benchmark with strong evidence!

Anthony is back from a month in China! Welcome back!

Taylor was our student of the week. He shared his ME bag with us.

Many readers have read some fun poetry books! This is one that has poems in different shapes!

Did you see us on Cool Schools? We were here early to share with the world how much fun it is to learn at JES!

We did some motor breaks to get ready before getting on the air!

Health class- Just say NO to drugs! Never start to smoke!
One of these lungs is of a smoker. Can you tell which one? Don't smoke!

Cue Think in math- We started doing Cue Think on our chrome books instead of the iPads.

This group presented data about our cheez it creations. We found that the area is always 20.

We found the perimeter of cheez it polygons.

 

 

We learned about problem solving steps.

 

For a celebration, we made worms in dirt pudding.

 

Making the dirt!

 

 

We read some books about trying to convince someone into doing something that they are not sure about.

 

Have a great weekend,

Avela and Anna K.