Monday, December 5, 2016
Door Decorating
The students all helped to get our door decorated! They all have a ton of creativity!
Writing Celebration
The students worked in groups to give out writing awards. We now have a room full of award winning writers!
Monday, November 28, 2016
Weekly Happenings 11/28-12/2
Hello! I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I am looking forward to a full week of learning!
Here's what's happening:
Writing: The students will continue drafting their persuasive essays. The essays are due Wednesday. We will begin a personal narrative unit next!
Reading: We will are beginning another fiction unit. We will focus on finding the theme. We will also compare and contrast books with similar themes.
Word Study: They will take their test Tuesday or Wednesday depending on LEAP/Strings schedules.
Science: We will continue to learn about electricity. The students will learn how electric circuits work.
Math: We are still working on long division. I've posted a picture of the chart the students use to learn the process. Feel free to pull this up at home when working on homework. Please continue to practice working on multiplication facts. As of now, our test date is next Wednesday. I will see how the students do with division this week and change the date if necessary.
Important Dates:
11.28 - 12.2 - Helping Hands Campaign
12.7 - Early Release
Here's what's happening:
Writing: The students will continue drafting their persuasive essays. The essays are due Wednesday. We will begin a personal narrative unit next!
Reading: We will are beginning another fiction unit. We will focus on finding the theme. We will also compare and contrast books with similar themes.
Word Study: They will take their test Tuesday or Wednesday depending on LEAP/Strings schedules.
Science: We will continue to learn about electricity. The students will learn how electric circuits work.
Math: We are still working on long division. I've posted a picture of the chart the students use to learn the process. Feel free to pull this up at home when working on homework. Please continue to practice working on multiplication facts. As of now, our test date is next Wednesday. I will see how the students do with division this week and change the date if necessary.
Important Dates:
11.28 - 12.2 - Helping Hands Campaign
12.7 - Early Release
Monday, November 21, 2016
Weekly Happenings 11/21-11/22
Hello! I hope everyone had a good weekend! We have a very short week this week. The students are off November 23-25.
Here's what's happening:
Writing: The students will continue drafting their persuasive essays. The essays are due next Wednesday.
Reading: We will wrap up our non-fiction unit this week! We will move back to fiction after Thanksgiving break.
Word Study: Their test is scheduled for Wednesday, November 29. We have many days off/altered schedules coming up, so this is the earliest we could fit in the test.
Science: We will continue to learn about how static electricity works. Today, we did an experiment which showed the process of static electricity!
Math: We are still plugging away with long division. I've posted a picture of the chart the students use to learn the process. Feel free to pull this up at home when working on homework. Please continue to practice working on multiplication facts.
Important Dates:
11.21-11.22 - Helping Hands: Personal Care Items
11.23-11.24 - Thanksgiving Break: No school!
Here's what's happening:
Writing: The students will continue drafting their persuasive essays. The essays are due next Wednesday.
Reading: We will wrap up our non-fiction unit this week! We will move back to fiction after Thanksgiving break.
Word Study: Their test is scheduled for Wednesday, November 29. We have many days off/altered schedules coming up, so this is the earliest we could fit in the test.
Science: We will continue to learn about how static electricity works. Today, we did an experiment which showed the process of static electricity!
Math: We are still plugging away with long division. I've posted a picture of the chart the students use to learn the process. Feel free to pull this up at home when working on homework. Please continue to practice working on multiplication facts.
Important Dates:
11.21-11.22 - Helping Hands: Personal Care Items
11.23-11.24 - Thanksgiving Break: No school!
Social Studies Review
We played Kahoot to review for the social studies test! The students worked with a partner to correctly guess the right answer for each problem. The team who could answer the fastest and correctly won!
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