Friday, February 19, 2016

Week of February 15, 2016

Check out our Animoto video! https://animoto.com/play/MG9wTnxalTgCfWNCTEkbOA

Here are some highlights from our week!

* We had a snow day!

* We brainstormed some problem solving strategies in Second Step. We know it's important to be safe and respectful.

* We learned more about helping people in need- heart health!

* We played with fraction bars and used arrays to divide fractional parts.

* We mailed our letters to our local representatives.

* We did a science lab to see which material melts the ice the fastest.

* Ms. Pratt read us a book called Hope for the Flowers. We then did some fun activities! Have you ever done a Chalktalk? You don't talk, you just write about a topic. See what we did below!

Have a good time on February break!

Kate and Anthony

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Knowledge is power! February is heart health month!

We invited Hannah Wood into our classroom to teach us more about heart health! She brought in lots of material! We learned how to check, call, care! We even practiced with the AED!

For children, give two breaths and then 30 chest compressions. For adults, 30 chest compressions then 2 breaths.

This is a kit we used. For more information, check out the section titled "It's your body: Staying Healthy" in the book It's Your Wold by Chelsea Clinton. Or the website www.heart.org

We know how to help ourselves and others! Go out and learn a life-saving skill too!

Your friendly bloggers!

Friday, February 12, 2016

Week of February 8, 2016

One of the beautiful chandeliers at the State House.

We talked to our guide about the state houses and the 3 branches of government.

Governer Anna signed our bill as we learned about the stages (and acted them out) of how a bill becomes a law.

We stand in front of the State House after our tour!

Anna V. was are governor and signed our bill.

This is a civil war painting that is in the main hall of the State House.

We met Governor Peter Shumlin in the hallway! He is a very busy worker.

We felt real animal pellets in a wigwam.

Waiting for the train!

We learned about the morse code and how it works.
We explored industries in Vermont and their history.

This building is a model of a nineteen forties home in World War 2.

This is the House. This is where the bills are passed and turned into laws.
We choose an issue, and pretended that we were the senates discussing weather we would turn it into a bill that the House would turn into a law.
This is a real bill that is being discussed currently.
This desk was signed by each senater that sat at that desk.

We played government jeopardy in social studies.

 

We watched a video about kindness.

We painted rocks that had an inspiring phrase or word on it. We keep them on our desk for encouragement.

We had a class PAWS celebration and played together outside!
Our K Buddy class came in and we read a book to them, exchanged cards, did JAMS, and they taught us a song.

We had a awesome time listening about learning about how bills become laws.

We have many more pictures! We will make a video and share them next week!
 


 

 

Just met the Governor!

 

An amazing experience at Vermont's State House

Our State House!

The House of Representatives.

Our big idea is read on the senate floor!

We met our Lieutenant Governor!

 

Friday, February 5, 2016

Week of February 1, 2016

Mrs. Randall, Ms. Pratt, and Mrs. Stone have been writing us hearts with kind words and inspirational words! We get one each day building up to the 12th. Then, each of us will shared kind words with each other!

Then we put the hearts in our envelopes on our desks.
Ms. Pratt read us a book that connected to our second step.
She gave us real life scenarios that we had to solve without blame.
This week's scholastic news main article was about the Redskins team name, and if it was an honor or insult.
Reading quietly with really good books!
Ms. Pratt started a book group. Ask us what it's about. It's called The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L Going. Mrs. Randall's book club is reading Chu Ju's House by Gloria Wheelan.

This science group made Flubber, we added glue, liquid startch, and warm water.

We did a science project, and checked our data with a rubric. We self checked and reflected on feedback.

In math we took surveys and represented our data with different types of representations.

Congratulations to our new multiplication masters!

This reading group presented their book about matter to us.

We watched a video about matter on Brain Pop and then took a fun quiz!

Eva finished multiplication!

Easton finished Divsion! He has now completed all big grids!

Working on our surveys required us to think about how we can share our data with others.

We did a long jam to get our energy out. This was part of our class PAWS celebration for exceeding our goal last week.

We revised our argument writing with our writing buddy.

We have some strong writing pieces! Check out the bulletin board outside our classroom.

 

Ms. Pratt started reading a book to us, Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate.

You can make a difference in our state, if you write to our legislators.

Avela and Beck made a line plot for their survey.

We did a bedtime math problem solver. We learned that the tallest snowman is 122 feet tall!

Happy Birthday Anthony! Thanks for the yummy fruit roll ups from China!

Have a great weekend,

Avela and Kate