Friday, April 29, 2016

Week of April 25, 2016

Exciting Skype session with amazing author/mathematician Greg Tang! We played fun math games with him and challenged our math reasoning!

Playing Kakooma!

Ask one of us about this number play math game! We would love to teach you!

After, we explored his website and started his spring math challenge.

Publishing Party! We shared our literary essays with kids all over the world on Writeabout. After, we read comments made on our pieces and wrote comments on other writer's work.

Our new reading and writing units focus on historical fiction text. Our new read aloud book takes place during WWII. In reader's workshop, we are a reading a second text to look at a different perspective on the same time in our history. That book is called Number The Stars.

Since we completed our reading unit on reading historical fiction, we celebrated by watching Johnny Tremain!

After each read aloud book, one of us makes a bookmark for our recommendation basket. This way we will always remember all of the books we've read.

Wondering Wednesday! Each of us wrote our plans for what we want to learn more about, create, design, or investigate. These are some of the things we did!

A small group worked together using a computer program to design a house. It is a three story house so each of them designed one of the floors.

Beck really wanted to figure out a mystery in his book. He used the time like a detective!

This group took Mrs. Randall's drone challenge! They learned more about how drones work.

This is one of the drones our school has.

This student is learning from one of his video mentors. He is learning how he created Mindcraft tutorial videos so that he can create his own YouTube channel and make videos too!

Finally...nice weather! The soccer goals we ordered came in and we had sunshine! We are proud of our hard work!

Reading and following directions is an important skill!

Working together- we put two soccer goals together in 30 minutes!

Sucess

Reading miniLesson-

Interactive anchor chart
Scientists sharing their observations. Different ecosystems!

Different habitats- check out this t-shirt!

In pairs, we chose different habitats to learn more about!

We taught Mrs. Reinhardt a fun number game! Ask us to teach you too!

K-buddies! It was a beautiful day!

Playing soccer with our buddies- a kindergartener scored the first goal!

What do you think is important? Ask us!

We participated in a large group Skype with Jeff Kinney! He relvealed the cover of his next book! Book 11 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

We were VERY excited!
Here it is!

Have a great May,

Beck and Evan

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Bringing History To Life! VIDEOS

Check out the videos we created!  In research groups, we worked together to present four different perspectives about our focus (French and Indian War, Taxes, Boston Massacre, or Boston Tea Party).  Our focus question was, How did this person feel/what did they think about the event?  Why?

French and Indian War

Taxes

Incident on Kings Street

Boston Tea Party

Please comment on your thoughts and/or questions!

Friday, April 15, 2016

Week of April 11, 2016

Congratulations Taylor! Finishing Fastt Math deserves a dance party!!

Social studies debate- two sides to every issue.

Short-focused-independent research projects based on what we are wondering about.

We have been using some strategies that help us better understand complex text.

Congratulations Anna! A multiplication master!

Finding factors of multiples of 10!

Movie production! Final edits before presentations. We will post videos soon!

Google Expeditions!! Google arrived at our school and we used these goggles to visit many locations! Traveling the world is amazing! Virtually...

Underwater adventure in Austraila!

Angel Falls

Antarctica

Using fractions to help celebrate Ms. Pratt's birthday! We made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Yummy!

Many hands make light work...

Breaking apart large numbers helps us work efficiently! Ask us about cluster problems and partial products!

How do you find the main idea in text? How does the author's perspective play a role in the information you are reading?

Receiving feedback on our debate arguments.

Groups reflecting on feedback.

One of the judges.

Our final Four Winds Lesson! We learned more about birds!

Getting ready for a challenge! Bird beaks ready...

It was tough competition for food!

Making smart estimates reminds us to always ask, Does my solution make sense?
Mathematicians applying what they have learned in a problem solver.

Nearpod lesson in social studies! Perspectives and team work! Anthony is using speech to text for efficiency!

Happy vacation!

Alek and Owen