Week of 1-7-2013

Monday

We got to chose what we want on the math menu. This is what we came up with:

Muggins is a fun math game we added. In this game we are putting together different equations.

 

Multifactor is another math game that helps us with multiples.

 

This group is playing Counting the Tape to work on multiplication and supporting your thinking with evidence.

 

This group is playing a Quizmo game focusing on geometry! This is our current unit of study.

Mr. Bouchard and Mrs.Rinheart came in today for math.

At snack Megan, Lucas and Sam D went to read to their K-buddy's.this is the book Sam D read to Gunnther.

Megan read Click Clack Moo to Eliza

Today Mrs. Randall read yesterday I had the blues.

We did a writing piece about how we felt Monday morning and what color matched your mood.

There were many different colors with different moods.

 

We watched a video in social studies about how our state and local government works and got a booklet called Under the Golden Dome.

This is the packet that we got.

Citizen Brain video.

Tuesday

In math we discussed if a square is a rectangle or if rectangle is a square.

We continued to work on page 30-32.

 

After that we played quizmo.

It was fun and we had many "QUIZMO"s

Our class took a test about what a quadrilateral is.

A scientist came to JES and we got to listen to what she does. She works with emotions. She tests things on kids. Her name is Jamie.

This is Jack a baby people tested on.

We tested how many Beats per minute our heart beat.

Wednesday

Mr. Lane came in today for guidance .

We did a free write today. Mrs. Randall taught a lesson on how writers use voice. She read the book The Frog Principal. It was funny! After, we wrote with our voice to continue the story.

 

We explored our Under the Golden Dome books for our VT studies!

Mrs. Randall gave a challenging POD on Thursday! It took us a long time to work. We all showed preservance because we didn't give up! We used the strategy guess, check, think and revise.

This is us working hard!

We went to the computer lab and a new site called kidsperasion 3. it was a fun. :)

We had a guest teacher she used to work in middle school. Her name is zieiemski.

 

The whole class played geometry quizmo.

 

Mrs. Randall came in a little before 11:00 for reader's/writer's workshop. She read an informational text called Surprising Sharks. It was so good! We noticed that she had strong voice that was engaging and gave us new information about sharks. After, we brainstormed what we were passionate about and/or knew a lot about and practiced using voice and Nicola Davie's authors craft to write a non-fiction piece.

 

We got a new weekly reader this week it's tell you to stand up for people that are getting bullied.

Have a great weekend

Jordan P And and Megan. :)

Jan. 2-a short week

 

We made polygons with certain sides.

Jackson and Kip made a polygon with all of them put together.

In guidance we relearned the unthinkables and then we acted them out.

In reading workshop we did a reading theater on the civil war. Everyone did great.

We had a discussion about are Weekly Reader.

We learned about robots and how they will help people in the future.

We worked on dividing as our warmup problem.

This is the problem we did can you figure it out?

Abe made a Educreations video can you solve it?

Everyone shared their polygon creations that we made yesterdayt

 

We had authors chair again. We haven't had it for about 2 weeks.

This was are math warm up for today can you figure it out?

Taylor's favorite part of the week was inguidance when we learned the rest of the unthinkables.

Mia's favorite part of the week was in art when we drew animals.

Sadie's favorite part of the week was playing hopscotch with our Vt riddles and naming polygons.

Happy 2013 from Sam and Kieley

Week of Dec. 17

We played a hockey game in gym

In math a group measured the hallway to see how long 100 feet is

 

Also in math we found out how long our spam is a spam is from your thumb to pinkie .

Fact to know- if you wanted to measure a raisin use a centimeter

Today kieley and jorden p read to their kindergarten buddy.

These are the books they are bringing .

Finally we did our social studies assessment on VT geography.

After we were done with the assessment if you finished early you could write in your notebook.

 

Some people were still finishing up the assessment

 

At the end of the day we did a skype with people in Windsor that lived in the pomfret town

Then they asked us questions to find where we live like we did to them right before.

We are getting better at finding where people live on our Skype

After we had time so we worked on our 10 riddles for VT geography.

In math we worked on page 14 in unit 4

Then we worked on a page called power polygons with our family.

 

It was fun

 

At snack Skyler shared his me bag

In whole school meeting we sang a bunch of songs

They were good songs and got us in a good mood

In reading we filled out a work sheet if you had not done it before so we could expand our vocabulary.

In library some people are reading DCF books . some people almost have 10 or 5 like Sadie , Mia , Taylor and Megan have almost 5 or 10 DCF books that they have read . These are some of the books they have read

Happy reading and writing

We did authors chair instead of read aloud there were good stories these are some of them

These are pictures of Sadie's and Mia's story and Bella's story.

 

In social studies we finished our riddles that we made for Vermont

In music we listened to the nutcracker and saw a slide show of it.

We talked about our home work the night before

At reading we decided who would be in a play that was in our weekly reader

Now it's WONDERING Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The question for today....Is air matter?

Some people will do it on Thursday because not every one can do it at once

It's "I wonder...Wednesday"! We did a fun air investigation to find out if air is matter.

In math we made our own tangrams

Those are two big tangrams

These are the directions

In the end we had seven different shapes .

We did a write about your favorite holiday

 

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Jordan P. and Sadie