Week of March 3-11-13/3-15-13

Monday

We had author's chair. This is one author ( Abe ) who is sharing one of his stories.

We started a new read aloud book called The One And Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. It is a very good book so far. Sam D. Is our "discussion director" and Jackson is our "vocab enricher".

Tuesday

 

We did our JAM we had to do the chicken dance, we also get the JAM results for February. ( JAM stands for Just A Minute, it's were we do a fun aerobic exercise for a minute.)

We are doing a science investigation with Mr. Bouchard and Mrs. Randall, where we have cotton,sand,sawdust,and newspaper to keep the ice cold.

Wednesday

This is Wednesday's P.O.D problem of the day. Most of our class chose a strategy called guess, check, think, and revise. We all persevered and shared our math thinking!

For share Lucas brought in his pugs named Saphira, Misa.

This is Lucas and his pug, Misa. Misa is a one year old pug. ( according to Lucas )

Abe shared his old school's home page.

This is Lucas,Jackson,and Jordan b. presenting their item's for the challenge " City of A to The city of B " But this very year every one in the whole school lived!!!!

This is Sadie's " I say they, They say, I say backs." We are working on creating a strong argument! Practicing on Icivics has helped us understand each step in finding clear evidence to support our claim.

Thursday:

Malina shared a slideshow from when she went to St. John, This is a picture of boats on the harbor.

When we had art today, Mr VanAllen asked us to make four silhouettes of an animal or a land scape.

In math intervention, we work at our own level and at our own pace. Some students are working on Khan Academy, trying out a problem solver or playing a fun math game called Numeracy.

Jackson is planning a trip across the United States using a mileage calculator. If he goes on that trip I'm going with him!!!!!!!!!!

This is Maliek watching a video on khan Academy, to learn a new skill. Khan Academy is a helpful math program that teaches new skills, and helps you master them in a fun way.

 

 

 

 

We made a 10,000's chart, it is very big. To split up the work we gave each 'family' a thousands group.

 

We are writing Letter's to third graders on how know how many 10's are in 1,000.

We are doing Thursday's J.A.M, called Raise the Flag where we act as if we're raising a flag and so on.

Mrs. Randall is reading us a book called Show Me the Money by Alvin Hall. It's about economics and money explanation.

This is a packet of Show Me The Money. Over the next few days we will mark up the text and earn the knowledge of economics.

 

Our experiment shows that newspaper and sawdust was the best insulation.

Friday:

We Went To The State House!!!

This is the beautiful battle of Cedar Creek room. We met with our local representatives. This is Mr. George Till. Can you find a split rock and a cannon ball?

This is the state house. The statue on top is named Agricutlure, for Vermonts farming business.

This is Taylor holding a REAL grey fox fur.

 

This is a fake Samuel Adams hanging in a chair from a tavern's sign. Samuel Adams was seen as a traitor to the green mountain boys, because he thought that we could peacefully settle our differences.

This is supposed to be an old time general store.

When logging was the prime industry in Vermont the loggers went to far and cut down almost all the trees in Montpelier.

This is a Vermont civil war soldiers trunk. Notice the soldiers trunk houses musical instruments, the soldier was one of the many civil war musicians. Although he was in the civil war ( most soldiers died in the war ) he died of a fatal disease.

This is a civil war medic's pouch.

This is a morse code machine, the bottom is the receiver, the top is the message sender.

This is the American morse code alphabet .

This is a unsuspecting photographer (Malina) taking a picture of a farmers ribbon and pocket watch award.

 

Happy Monday!

Bella and Gabe

 

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We met the Governor!

Our visit to Vermont's State House proved to be informative, fun, and exciting! More details to come on Monday!

 

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Week of March 6-9,2013

Wednesday

On Wednesday we talked about notation. Our focus for math was "how can we use clear and concise notation for recording addition strategies"? We solved addition problems and swapped papers with an elbow buddy then we talked about the strategies.

Our desks are in "families" which means that they are in small groups. We created family names and posters.

 

The names of the families are: The Thriving monkeys of the wilderness, The no name baboon, the Pugs, The Bengal Tigers.

In Readers-Writes we focused on our weekly reader or our idea for our reps.

We got our weekly readers today.

In science each family researched a focus question from our properties of matter unit.

 

This is a question a group got.

In this project we learned to work together and how to back up an answer.

 

Thursday

We had a another P.O.D in which we had to make a table to find the running total, some kids got stuck on that. Then we went to art and came back to math menu.

Then we elaborated on the U.S. algorithm discussion.

Then we played close to 1,000 and talked about the strategies we used.

 

We went to the lab and worked on ICivics. We each have accounts so we get to practice creating a strong argument. this helped us practice for our own persuasive letters. We also reviewed a document in our Drive that details the criteria for our social studies glogs.

We had read aloud, recess and lunch. Then in science we continued to work on our question that we had to answer. We then wrote a paragraph, using the ABC format) on one of the questions. We continued the paragraphs Friday. Teams presented using the app Notability and YouTube videos.

Friday

We had a challenging P.O.D. We all learned to persevere, use positive self talk and start with what we know. After, we realized that we could solve the problem easily!

In honor of Jackson, Mrs. Randall danced on his desk. He finished Fastt Math!

Congratulations Jackson!

Jackson is done Fastt math so we got to dance and Mrs. Randall got to Dance on the TABLE ! Jackson picked the Muisic smoke on the water. Yes!

We went to the computer lab and learned a new program called Typing club.com to help us get faster at typing. We gave Mrs. Randall feed back on what we thought.

We had an exciting read aloud...stopping in the middle of a part and now we have to read the second book to find out. We now recommend the second book in the series called The Surge! We had lunch after recess. In science, we shared our paragraph that answered our question. Everyone did a great job!

 

Have a nice weekend!

Yours truly,

Jordan b and Megan.

 

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