Yay! Friday, September 30

Blogged by Nora. In science we made clouds out of shaving cream. In math we looked at big numbers by estimating the popularity of Ohio. In Word Study we played games. We got sweaty in gym. A fly fallowed Momo from the gym to the class room to the lunch room.    Happy September

Thursday, September 29

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 today was picture day we played a game to learn about glaciers we learned how to show writing in word study we illustrated our words today was a good day

Wednesday, September 28

Today was a good day, we listened to the president's back to school speech. Congratulations to Nora for representing our class in Student Council. In Math, we reviewed subtraction and place and value. We proved our generalization in Word Study, long vowel with a silent e. We finished our collages on the water cycle and discussed the movie that was shown yesterday about precipitation and weather. We are almost finished with our stories about the police officer at summer camp. :) Our book orders came in and books will be passed out tomorrow--sorry kiddos! Don't forget picture day tomorrow!

Monday, September 26

We will be voting for our Student Council representative on Wednesday. Today, we went to the library to learn about the books up for the Buckeye Children's Book Award. We will be voting for our favorite in the next couple of months. For Science, we made a collage representing the water cycle. Our home-made barometer showed a change in pressure today. We played Subtraction Target Practice and Subtraction Top-it in Math. UMMMMMMM, is the sound from the class when asked what else, so I guess we're done for today!

It's Friday, Friday, Friday--September 23

We completed a MAP assessment on the computers today. It will tell Mrs. L where our strengths and weaknesses are in Math. In Science, we inquired about water and ice and learned about the water cycle as well as water as a solid, liquid and gas. We also saw water as a gas coming from a whistling tea kettle. Mrs. Bowers has been out this week so we wrote letters to her today. (With the MAP assessment, it seems we've had a shorter learning day.) Have a great weekend!

Thursday, September 22

On Monday, we will have a new student coming to us from JW Reason! In Word Study, we proved our generalization and wrote stories using this week's words. We continued to work on the writing process with some of us publishing. In Math, we used Base-10 blocks and physically subtracted. This helped us understand regrouping and 'borrowing.' In Social Studies, we went on Google Earth to help learn about latitude and longitude. We found Alton Darby Elementary and The Ohio Stadium. It was very cool! We had a good day...we're still chatty.

Wednesday, September 21

We had a short, good day. We used base-10 blocks in Math today and learned how to explain and write numbers in different ways to help in subtraction. Last week, we finished Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing in Read Aloud and so this week, we began No Talking by Andrew Clements. In it, Dave and Lynsey start a contest between boys and girls that no one can talk to see who can not talk the longest. I'm not sure how our class would do with this competition...what do you think?

Tuesday, September 20

Today, in Science, we made wind vanes and tweaked our anemometers. We tried them out as well but there wasn't enough wind so we'll try again later in the week. We got a new workboard contract this week. In Writer's Workshop today, most people wrote their rough drafts to the prompt, "A police officer receives a letter at summer camp..." which we got by rolling the story cubes. In Math today, we learned about subtraction by meeting some of Mrs. Lambright's friends: Juan, Tim, Henry and Thomas. :) We sorted our words and wrote the generalization for the week. Recess was outside today! Congratulations to Grant and Tori, our Choose to Lead representatives and to Sean, Benjamin and Brianna who will be our ADE News Crew. We will vote for our Student Council Representative next Tuesday after hearing speeches as to why students would be a good representative for our class.

Friday, September 16

We had a very fun day today! We get to bring our Writer's Notebooks home for the weekend--check them out! In Math, we did another good job on Number Talks and finished up our plus sign patterns on the hundreds grid. We finished our first workboard contracts. We had Free-writing today or writing with no boundaries. Our barometer has changed a little...I wonder what that means. Today was Constitution Day so we learned about our rights and freedoms. In Word Study we had our first game Friday! Remember to bring back signed Highlights forms.
TGIF!!

Thursday, September 15

In Science, we made anemometers and tested them outside. Anemometers measure wind speed. Ours didn't work so well so we'll make some adjustments and try again. We wrote stories using our spelling words. We are voting on what the celebration will be when we get our first BINGO for class behavior. In Math, we looked at patterns in the number grid and were stronger with our explanations for Number Talks. We met with more groups in Reading and read and worked on our workboard contract. In Writing, we wrote from our hearts. We were pretty chatty today but hopefully have it out of our systems and will return tomorrow ready to learn. 

Wednesday, September 14

Today was a great day! We had tons of special parts for the fall concert from our class. Kudos to you! Thank you Lauren for the buckeyes! We started our reading groups today and are working on informational text. In Math, we explained our thinking and played games. We learned about air pressure by doing an experiment and made a barometer. In Art, we did our book covers and earned a painting. We proved-it in Word Study. I wonder... we wrote what we wonder about in our new Writer's Notebooks.

Monday, September 12

We worked on Workboard during Reader's Workshop today for the first time. Our EGGsperiment was finished and we can now tell the difference between a hard boiled egg and a raw one by the feeling (jigglyness :0) and using a light. To find out if we were correct, we cracked the eggs and everyone was correct! In Writer's Workshop, we did a timeline of our life for ideas to write about. We worked with addition, 2 different ways, in Math and did another subtraction number talk. Now, hopefully, we'll be playing Homeworkopoly!!

Friday, September 9

We met with our 1st grade buddies today and learned about each other. In Math, we only had a short time so we made Place and Value fortune teller/cootie catchers. We messed up at first, but think we finally got it! We performed our Reader's Theaters for our buddies too! In honoring Patriot Day on 9/11, we learned the vocabulary of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meaning of the colors, stars and stripes of our flag and made flags of our own. Our Writer's Notebooks are complete now and ready to be written in!

Wednesday, September 7

Uh-oh...forgot the blog again yesterday. Oops-sorry!
Today some were excited about a new menu item at lunch that tasted like chicken noodle soup. We continued working/practicing our Reader's Theaters which we will perform to our new 1st grade buddies on Friday. Why do we write? To communicate, for enjoyment, to share and remind are just some of the responses we came up with. In Math, we worked with calculators for the first time this year and played with the value of numbers. Yesterday, we got a new student--his name is Musa! Welcome! Our first indoor recess was today because of the rain. In Science, we did an EGGsperiment with qualitative and quantitative information. LOL! Today was an EGGsiting day!! :)

TGIFriday, September 2

Scholastic Book Club catalogs came home today. If you'd like to order, please go online to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. Our activation code is GPYKT. We are only accepting online orders this year. If you have any difficulty, please let me know! There are even eBooks you can order this year!

We practiced fluency with Reader's Theater. In Gym, we practiced kicking and played Poison. We had another number talk in Math and learned the history of counting. We finished typing our Important Paragraphs. I can't wait for you to read them at Curriculum Night next week! We finished our focus on high frequency words with good 4th grade sentences. It was an awesome end to another great week!

Thursday, September 1

Happy Thursday! This first day of September was really good! We went to Music today and practiced songs for the Fall Concert. Today, in Math, we put "digit" on our Math word wall and learned about place and value. We got on the computers, typed our paragraphs and also learned how to use Pages, our word processing program at school. It was awesome! Yummy cheeseburgers were for lunch! Did you know the ladybug is our state insect? We learned some of the state symbols like that. We also earned more BINGO numbers!