Recording our k-buddy reading!

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Week of November 7

Bella is reading deeply in her book that she picked, her just right text.

Our class created families. Each family chose a family name and crated a poster.

The family names for our desk groups.

We are reading about The Eagle Has Landed. We are trying out a reading strategy called Questioning! The more we question, the deeper we understand.

We are dancing for our jam.

Nice!!! Good job Avrie showing your work and nice organized and showing your think clear and neat.

Ryan is showing his work that is about his math he used big array and small array. His idea is a conjecture!

We are counting by 3's and 30's. It is like the same thing but you are counting by 30 you add 10 to every thing. We skip count using a factor. The numbers we land on are the multiples of that number.

Taylor is 630 tall! We created a multiple tower of multiples of 30. OMG he is taller then me and maybe the whole class.

Abbey and Jack are working together they are going to do a great job.

This is a picture of us cleaning up the path!

We are picking up trash.

Abbey and Sydney did a p.o.d work. We noticed a pattern!

These are our math towers.

Kate is a multiplication masters!!! Good job Kate.

We are doing our narrative writing. We got to watch part of a scene from Toy Story and tried out perspective taking! Wide scene or close up!

Today Justin finished his multiplication on fast math good job Justin!!! Mrs. Randall dances on your desk! We can't wait to finish Fastt Math too!

The boys are doing a good job not being funny.

We shared our writing with our buddy class in NJ via Skype! We gave each other comments on pieces on Edmodo.

25 + Club checkpoint! 5 books read and responded to. Mrs. Randall gave us new book and pencil.

Have a good weekend!

Caitlyn and Madison

 

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Week of October 28

We started our week with a substitute because Mrs. Randall was in Washinton, D.C. Running the Marine Corps Marathon! Our guest teacher was Mrs. Irwin. We are working on morning problems. It's hard work! You have to persevere and use your habit of mind to finish the math and show our thinking!

We are estimating the size and weight of our pumpkins, and then using adjectives like orange, round, plump, stripy, bumpy, short, and small to describe the pumpkins. At writing we are going to write a poem about our pumpkins.

At reader's workshop we are doing a Reading Well sheet. We are working on staying focused on our reading, and leaving our comments and thoughts on sticky notes.

Mrs. Adams is coming in to paint pumpkins with us. We paint our own pumpkins and are looking for creative designs.

After the thinking about pumpkin designs we paint the pumpkins with great ideas! Here are some pumpkins from our class.

We are finishing our Math Menu today. Mrs. Carry is taking some students to an intervention game. This is a game called Fudge which is on our Math Menu. The objective is to get four of your colors in order.

We are still working on our VT maps. We need to finish all the Cartographic Features. We are finding important geographic features in our state.

Working on reading and thinking with packets like this and getting to know you is a reader to help us do better.

In writing, we are learning to Show not Tell. It is going pretty good so far!

Talking about math strategies.

Mrs.Randall ran a marathon in Washington DC for the marine corps. Caitlyn's brother is a Marine!

This is our JES Jam, for after snack. It's squats!

This is the marvelous mathboard. It is a board with benchmark math. It helps us check if our math is neat, organized, labeled, and shows our thinking. Madison and Justin each got pieces up this week! Nice job guys!

We are learning new words in our read aloud book, Out Of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper. Nolan is the keeper of our words.

This is some active thinking on arrays. We are working on the arrays 15x6=, and 90/6=, showing our work with the cubes.

Today's Halloween fun jams make it better! Our class members were pretending to be one of the spooky dancers, and following the moves of separate creeps!

Nolan used his strong math thinking to solve p.o.d, it's problem of the day.

We had a slim but good reading time.

Fun skype with our New Jersey buddy's. We skype our friends from California, and Wisconsin. We're reading narratives to them and they're reading them to us, too.

Checking math work with our 11:00 buddy. We are connecting our learning with friends and learning their strategies.

Mathematicians use base ten blocks as a visual model!

We played a fun game in math! It's called Missing Factor.

 

Writers use our writing benchmarks and rubrics to check the criteria for our writing.

Have a great weekend! Don't eat too much candy!

Sydney and Troy

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