The Most Terrific Tuesday

Today in guided reading we worked on our Roald Dahl books.  Reese is reading The Magic Finger.  The title of Debbie's book is The Witches. Debbie read chapters 3-5. Reese learned about Roald Dahl's life. Debbie read about how to recognize a witch.  Reese learned a fact about Roald Dahl.  It's Roald Dahl had an unhappy time in school.     

By: Reese and Debbie

Cereal Box Book Reports!

Today the students started presenting their cereal box book reports.  Here is one of their commercials!

The days of the week in Spanish

Today in Spanish we learned  the days of the week.  There are Monday- lunes, Tuesday- martes, Wednesday- miercoles, Thursday- jueves, Friday- viernes, Saturday- sabado and Sunday- domingo. Spanish was great!! We have such fun times doing Spanish!!  Spanish rocks!

by Taylor and Kaela

The Amazing Assembly

Yesterday we had an assembly. Mr. Steve (the person who was doing the assembly) was part of an awesome basketball program called, Totally Courageous Basketball. He had a barbie doll on his basketball team.  Mr. Steve gave us three important messages. They were never give up, believe in yourself, and try your best!  It was the most amazing thing we have ever seen.  We can't wait until the next assembly!   


by Lauren and Olivia

Awesome Wednesday!

In Language Arts today we did Grammar and Guided Reading.  In guided reading we did our independent reading books and had a book chat about what strategies we used.  In grammar, we learned about action verbs.  Some examples are: played, sprinted, hopping, teaching, loving, cried.  There are a lot of different examples.  In shared reading we practiced using onomatopoeia and we read a poem to go with it.  In Mrs. Shephard's class we finished typing our native American stories.  This is an awesome Wednesday!

By: Sydney and Brodie

Epic Tuesday!

Today Mrs.Sullivan's class learned how to write the letter y in cursive.   We really enjoyed it because it helps you with your handwriting.   Cursive is kind of easy in a lot of ways.   Cursive is fun to learn.  This whole entire awesome piece of writing is made for you guys to read.  We think everyone should read this because it's helpful and epic.   Read the title.
      
                                                                                     By: Alex and Thomas                                

MATH

In amazing, awesome, exciting, and fun math time we learned about fractions.  We did unit fractions. We learned the names for the fractions. The top number is called the numerator and the bottom one is called the denominator.  We threw yarny around for fractions.  We had such a fun time in math. When we were done we did math centers for a while.  We had a GOOD TIME!!!!!!! 
by Ethan G. and Emily 

Thursday the wonder day!

On Thursday in math we had a test.  It was not hard, it was not easy you just needed to know your facts!  Art was fun.  We made scarves on are polar bears.  We also made snow fall from the sky!  In handwriting we learned the letter H .  In fundations we had a fundations test.  We love school!

By: McCall and Lola

SUPER SCHOOL!

In the morning we had math and it was a practice test.  In grammar we learned about helping verbs.  In handwriting we did M in cursive.  We read  more from The Castle in the Attic.  Half of the class worked on their independent books and the other half read in guided reading.  We worked on our fiction stories in writing.  In social studies we learned about monuments.

By: Garrett and Tucker

Today's news

Today in math we took our practice test.  Today in music we learned a little bit of a recorders.  In handwriting we learned the letter N in cursive. In shared reading we read a book called, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.   The most important thing we did today was that we leaned about Martin Luther King Jr.  He made a speech that white people and black people go to school together.  He made a speech and that speech was called I HAVE A DREAM. We watched a movie that told us more things about him.  We made our own speeches just like Martin Luther King Jr.  We had a great day!!

By:  Aura and Taylor

What We Did Today

Today in math we learned lesson 8-8.  We just practiced our multiplication and division facts.  In handwriting we learned cursive capital E.  In snack we're reading, The Castle in the Attic.  In social studies we're learning about government.  The Governor is Chris Christie.

by Keith and JD

Playing with Pancakes

Yesterday Mr. Steve came in to talk about pancakes. No, not the breakfast kind. It's a game where you have to get a number of circles in a certain amount of moves. The rules are simple: You can't put a bigger circle on top of a smaller one. And you can only move one at a time.

Yesterday we played, "Around the World" in the classroom. That means we played a division game,where we try to beat each person in the class.  It was FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Carissa and Kaela

The amazing day

Today in math we used the scale to match up even numbers and odd numbers and to make the number sentences equal. In music we learned a four part cannon to Scotlands Burning. We learned how to write a cursive D like in December and Debbie. In Fundations we reviewed words. In shared reading we read Sarah, Plain and Tall.  In our Guided Reading groups we read the books, Amphibians and Secrets of the Rain forest. We had to write about Mrs. Sullivan in our journals.  In social studies we learned about the capital of our country, Washington D.C.. In Wonderful Writing we learned about pushing our thinking.

By: Ethan A. and Zsofia

The Incredible Monday!

Yesterday in read aloud we started a new book called, The Castle in the Attic. In gym we started badminton. In math we learned about Hidden Questions. In handwriting we learned the uppercase O. In shared reading we started Sarah, Plain and Tall.  In history we learned about state government. In Mrs.Sullivan's class we started short stories. In Mrs.Shephard's class we learned a web about garden. We started to push our brains more! 

By: Vincent and Debbie

Puppet Shows!

Last week in shared reading we read the book, More Than Marionettes.  This book talked about the use of puppets all over the world.  The students spent last week developing characters, drawing story maps, and writing their own puppet show scripts.  Below are some pictures of their creations!

a ROCK'N school day :)

The most fun thing we did today was learning about the mayor.  A mayor is a person that tells people in a community what to do!!  Also we learned how to write in cursive. I want to do that again. We did a times test of all numbers we learned so far.  Art was so awesome because we had a substitute that was very nice and his name was Mr.V.  Our journal entry was a spontaneous prompt!!!! Now that's a ROCK'N school day.
by: Alex and Cullen

Yesterday

Yesterday in math we practiced division.  In wonderful writing we were living wide awake lives and we observed things around the school.  In handwriting we traced the letter z.  In guided reading we read our books. In shared reading we read the book, More Than Marionettes.  In writing we did our puppet shows.  In social studies we learned about government, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner.

By: Brodie and Reese

We learned...

In math we are learning fact families using multiplication and division. In social studies we are learning about what government is and does. Wonderful writing is good too.  We are learning how to live wide awake lives.  Music is our favorite subject and we are learning how to sing in rounds.  In Fundations we had 3 sound alike words and learned the schwa sounds.  I think our class has really been bucket filling lately. 

by: Lauren and Olivia