This year seems to be flying right by! Another month over! We started this week with a trip to the brand new Public Safety building. Officer Maganello gave us a great tour. Next we filled our marble jar and we were able to have our class reward. We enjoyed our "beach" day as we worked. We started a new investigation in science this week: magnets! We did some testing inside with different materials to see what type of materials would interact and stick to magnets. Then, we went outside and tested materials around the school. We were amazed by some of the items that stuck! In writers' workshop we have been working on revising and editing our work as well as peer conferencing! These narrative stories are turning out great and I am proud of all the hard work these students do! This week I wanted to share some fabulous are work brought in as a Halloween decoration for our class. We were all very impressed with Sonya's hard work! Today we enjoyed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow read by our mystery reader, Lila's mom! Thank you for helping us get in the Halloween spirit!
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We started this week with a great math lesson from Mrs. Wells, our math specialist. She came to help us kick off some great strategies to use when multiplying multi-digit numbers. In reading, we are still working on characters and character traits. This week we spent time thinking if we could choose character traits by thinking about a character's actions. We have been using our Global Read Aloud, Pax by Sara Pennypacker, to start our conversations and practice. Here is a glimpse of our independent reading time, what are you reading? We are wrapping up our social studies unit on map skills with an independent project. Students are creating a treasure map of an island. Through this project the students are applying their learning of latitude and longitude, directions, map keys and symbols, oceans and land and many other skills we have been learning about. I would like to thank Jackson's dad, our Mystery Reader these week for a great wizard story, perfect for this time of year. The students are loving trying to guess who might be coming in! Last but not least, we have exciting news this week! We have had so many awesome days this year that we filled our marble jar and are ready for our reward. On Tuesday we will be having "beach day". Students may bring in a beach towel or small blanket to do their work on and wear sunglasses or hats. The kids have the opportunity to earn 2 letters for each subject in the day, to spell out "Awesome Day." At the end of the day we add up the number of letters and that's how much marbles go in the jar.
These last two weeks have been very short, so I combined the highlights from both for this post. We have been working on hard on our narrative writing. In this activity we were working on our descriptions and word choice. Groups had to secretly choose a monster to describe and at the end we all shared and tried to guess which one it was! In reading we have been working on point recognizing 1 st and 3rd person point of view. We have also been getting to know the characters in our stories. In Social Studies we have been working on map skills. We have learned about the continents and oceans, latitude and longitude, and about cardinal and intermediate directions. To practice our learning we did an investigation using nearpod on the ipads. We also had a great time using our ipads in the makerspace!During this time the students chose an App to investigate with a teacher lens and rate. They took this seriously and did a great job with this investigation. I would like to give special thank to our first mystery reader of the year! Isabella's mom! The kids enjoyed a great story and discussion.
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February 2018
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