4/29/13

-Today we skipped science to go to cyril the sorcerer who talked about recycling. If you are interested in magic go to the society of young magicians.com. In math we worked on our story's about prisms. In daily 5 we got new spelling words.

written by Bryce and WEAHANINOAH

April 17  Ask your students about our 5 minutes of doing nothing as we learned how to clear our minds and relax!

Today we....

- Checked mountain language from last week

- Added weight to our vehicles in science

- In math we did real-world word problems with volume

Blog By Laura!!!

Today we.....

-Finished our volume greenhouse projects in math

-Got our spelling words for the week

-Tested our vehicles again in science

-We got a daily 5 challenge in honor of Noah Webster: find the fake words in a list of 10 words

Blog By Laura!!!!!!!!

Week of April 8-12 

Mrs. FV is back to teaching full time and the blog is back, too!

April 10th

Today in math we decided on ways to find volume. In science we built a vehicle from a design.

In reading The Giver a new lit. circle group meet.  

April 9th

Today in math we learned about what volume is. Today in science we built vehicles and tested how far they went using gravity.

 Today in reading one new literature circle group meet. 

One day in March 2013

Today in math we learned how to use number lines to help us visualize how to mutilply whole numbers by fractions. Today in science some people presented their newspaper article about the respiratory system.   In reading Miss McBride read us a book called "Number the Stars". 

By: Keyona and Ava

2/11/13

Today in science we read words in different colors then what the word was and we got timed.

In math we reviewed adding and subtracting mixed numbers with unlike denominators.

In daily 5 we got new spelling words and Arcoss 5 Aprils the lit circle met.

By:JP and Scott :)

2/7/13

Today in science we learned about smooth muscles, cardio muscles, and skeletal muscles.

In math today we learned how to add and subtract nixed numbers such as four 

and two tenths minus two and three fiths. Today in daily 5 we worked in groups on describing characters

from books and how they feel about a topic, the topic being slavery. After that we drawed cards from a bucket deciding

wich side we are on for slavery because we will have a debate

By: Bryce

2/6/13

Today in science we learned abouth the bones in are body as well as the parts of the bone.

In math today we worked on simplifying and unsimplifiying fractions with unlike denomenators adding them and subtracting them. 

We read a read aloud about world war two and talked about the main idea then we did that in our own books.

By: Bryce and Cade

2/4/13

Today in science we learned about the different human body systems.

In math we did problems on adding and subtracting unlike denomenators.

We got new reading logs and spelling contracts.

By:Bryce and JP.

/n28/13

today we...

came to school at 12:15

we took the math case 21

got new spelling words

Today we...

We had silver trout and the puppeters showed there shows. In math we learned about plotting coordinates on grids.

Our special was drama again, Mrs. Glenn leaves tomorrow! In social studies we reviewed our questions about the civil war. In science we played another game called who has I have. What we do is everyone gets a postcard with a science term and a different definition. When someone reads a definition that matches your term, you read your defintion and the game continues until we get back to the word weather.

Becca, Cade, Bryce.

Today we... started with silver trout

Then we had science and we played a game where we had to guess our type of weather word by asking three questions and if we didn't we had have the class give us clues while we had to stand at the front of the room.

Today was Ms. McBride's first day teaching math.

Our special today was Drama. Mrs.Glenn, the drama teacher is leaving for an 11 day rescue trip to India!

By Cade

Today we...Finished sharing our science projects.

Also we split into  our groups for silver trout.

We had a math test today.

our special today was Band and all the band and strings people brought their instruments and shared them with the class.

By Cade

Today we...

continued on our science project. 

The View From Saturday literature circle group met with Mrs. Fitcher-Venners

In math we got partnered by matching numbers an we wrote our own equation and had somebody else solve it

Libbie, Becca, Lauren and Isabel performed in theater production for K-2

By: Hannah and Ava  

January 4, 2013

Today we......

-read more of the yellow fever epidemic book

-did 3 experiments in science all related to air pressure

-turned in our science journals

-had an assesment in math

By Laura

January 3,2013

Today we......

-made New Year's resolutions

-reviewed multipying/dividing decimals

-learned about fronts in science

- finished our 2012 in Pictures papers

-we got science homework

-lit circles met

by Laura and Keyona

January, 2, 2013

Today we...

had a PRIDE assembly

we had science in the aftornoon

In math we learned to divide decimals by decimals on base ten grids

We looked back at 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR

By JP and Scott

december,20,2012

today we...

holiday performance (super cool),in science we learned about cloud types,and we drew clouds with chalk,in the morning we made a poster for what we are thank full for,for daily 5 we typed our reports,and of course we went to lunch and recess.

by:Lauren and hannah

Today Mrs. Fichter-Venners lost her voice, AND three people lost their teeth.  (Scott, Isabel and Ava)

In science, we learned about weather instruments and the atmosphere.

In math, we worked on area models and standard algorithms for multiplying decimals.  In math, we had a one question assessment.   

In Daily 5 we worked on Social Studies group projects and reviewed Mountain Language.

We held our class meeting while Mrs. Fichter-Venners typed our blog.

The funnest part of the day was when we did our Brain Breaks.  We did the Frankenstein walk down the hall to the tune of "Thriller".  It was thrilling!

~written by Mrs. F-V with input from the class.

Today we went over rounding in math and the area model method.

In science we learned about the atmosphere

In reading we watched a video about "Yellow Fever" and compared it to the book were reading now which is called The American plague.

By :Noah and Cade

Dec.11

Today in math we learned the area method of multiplying decimals

During science we learned that soil heats and cools faster than water

Today was Mrs. F-V's birthday. 

By Manuel and Eliana

The week of Dec.3

today in math we took a test.(No Homework!)

in science we wrote a conclusion for our investigation about do seasons affect tempatures around the world .

Today was Noah's birthday so we ate popsicles.

The wemeek of November 27

today we played a game called capture the aliens (like battleship)

we are starting the holiday hope chests so make one!

we read a narrative non-fiction book about yellow fever

By:Noah, Scott, Bryce, and Cade

We learned about coordinates and finding them in Math

In Science we started our weather unit

Last Tuesday we had our Thanksgiving Feast

By: Noah

The  week of November 12

today we learned about human growth and development

we watched videos and they were about growing up into an adult.

today we...

• had the Unicorn Trot! (and completed 234 laps!!!!)
• learned about being classroom meteorologists
• In math we worked with partners on making hierarchy

        diagrams with different polygons 

• had extra recess!
• we read a time for kids (TFK) magazine
• brainstormed weather words 



By: Laura C.

It's already the last week of the quarter/beginning of 2nd quarter  -- week 10!!

We met in the computer lab this morning and did Study Jams, or Edmodo.

Today are speacial is science, and we are making prezis for are science.  The prezis are for human body, ecosystems, motion and design and weather.

We did Case 21 reading tests today and Case 21 math tests yesterday.

In math, we learned more about polygons. 

We learned about the electoral college.

we made a list of what a good leader needs.   things like courage, respect, experience.

we read about the candidates on laptops.

--jacob a.

TODAY IN MATH WE LEARNED ABOUT POLYGONS 

sometimes rectangles can be squares

I learned how to make polygons on Geoboards.

We went to Literature Circles.

We learned about voting--sometimes people vote without knowing what they are voting for.

Over time, people got voting privileges based on their gender and/or race.

People don't always know what the issue is when voting. 

Students are reading about Nadia in The View from Saturday.

This is the 9th week of school!

Wednesday

today we skyped noah  to see how he was doing. :) had pajama day. pollooted ecocolymes. and used laptop\dialy five-jacobk

Tuesday

today we used laptops in science for the first time! had crazy dress day at school,had been extra quiet. we also used the laptops again in writing to finish our stories. -jacob.k

Monday

we all poulloted our ecocolyms and went in groups and did point-of-view. did a review in math about decimals. We all had a part about what happend in the war of colinies(which invoved a lot of money!)and saw how we reacted when our m&m`s(money) got taken away because of taxses. on the 9th week of school we are doing better and better!-Jacob k.

Week 8

Wednesday

Today in math we learned about decimals and how to use a 100's grid to represent a decimal number.

In science we tested the pH of our terrariums and aquariums.then we tested the pH of our pollutants fertilizer, salt, and acid.

We learned about metaphors in writing and how much more sufistocated metaphors are than similies.

During daily 5 some groups of literature circle met and were introduced to the jobs in the literature circle.

by Scott and cade

Tuesday 

Today in science we learned about the pH scale 0 meaning acidic and 14 meaning base

We learned about adding decimals using base ten blocks in math.

We wrote poems using similes.

During Daily 5 some literature circles groups were introduced to their jobs and books.

--started by Scott...finished by Mrs. FV, Laura and Isabel

7 weeks of school already!

today  in reading we worked on our daily 5

today in math we worked on rounding 

In spelling we worked on prepositions

we wrote down unnatural causes that could effect the earth  

Here's what we did today, Tuesday.

today in math we put decimals in order and we rounded them to their  nearest numbers

we observed our ecocolums and we talked about photosynthesis and plants today we talked about how the crabtree riverbank was poluted and what could have happend to it!

by keyona and neftali 

Monday 

for homework we have math worksheet

we changed jobs

we learned how to divide and multiply using decimals and exponets

we played ghost in the graveyard for recess and we also played 4 corners

we read peoms/poetry

today in science we took the temps. of our teririums and aquriums and recored them! (FUN)

by keyona and neftali

Week 6

Friday

today we had a spelling test

mountain language

reading logs were due

we came up with are unicorn trot team name go f-vs freballs

by Jacob poteat

today we switched desks. we had a sub in math.

 in writing we worked on our opinion assay.

 In science we made a food chain then we contected them and made a food web.

by JP and Jacob

taday we got our spelling contracts and

we switched our jobs 

we did daily 5 

we changed the recycling teams

we worked on our mountian langauge 

we learned about New England and

we worked on multiplying by !0 and moving over the digits

we went to the computer lap and researched our ecocolumn organisms

by  Keyona and Laura

This is the 5th week of school and here's what we are doing...

Thursday-

in math we put decimals in least to greatest and vise versa

in science we observed our ecosystems

in social studies we looked at who conquered different parts of North America

we did not have school on Wednesday

tonight we have a worksheet for math

Becca and Kate

   Monday-

in math we learned about comparing desimals

in science we observed are ecocolum

we had lunch

went to recess

we sorted our spelling words

we went to our electives

we read to self at the end of the day

as always we did snack

By: Hannah and lauren 

It's the 4th week of school  Friday is an early release day.

Wednesday/Thursday

We added house crickets to our terrariams.

We learned about Marco Polo.

We got put in groups, and got assigned an explorer to research and we shared the information that we found.

In math class we used flats, skinnys and bits to help us understand decimals and money.

Today Kaitlyn turned ten.  Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!

--Hannah and Ava

Tuesday

Put pillbugs (rolypolys) in our terrariums.

Mrs. Hill came to our classroom to talk about who she is.

In Mrs. Peadens class, we learned about decimals and fractions.

It was the first group for recycling's last rotation for these three weeks.

We created a list to show how to read to someone.

We read a book about different forms of libraries.

We received our spelling contracts for spelling homework!

By Laura and Sarah

Monday 

 We got new classroom jobs

No math homework tonight!!

In spelling we learned when a word has a e at the end  the vowel  makes its sound

Today we has a 6 question assmeent in math

Our word of the week lsackadaisical

By:Tyler, Libbie ,and Laura

                                                                 9/17/12

Week 3 already!

 Are students council representives for the year are Noah and Becca

Picture day 

Our Speical today was dance

The air conditoin was shut down boo

By:Tyler

Our first day of eleictives!

We meet in the media center

Our class put two types of plants for our aquariums

In reading we learned how to Inferinace

In writing our class went over cirle maps

By:Tyler and Isabel

September 11

     Our speical today was dance

Some people in our class were choosen to do recycling

Today in math we worked on word problems with division

Today in reading we did vizuling in reding with our Independent readers

Today we have our first spelling asienment

We had a fantastic day!!!!!!

By:Isabel&Tyler

9/10/12

Today in math we learned the two digit division with estimation

Today we had a code yellow lock down

Today we had mrs.calahan for our speical
Today we made aqauriums and eventually we will have fish,plants,and snails

by:Tyler and Isabel

The second week of School

9/7/12

We almost earned all of our marbles.

We traced sillhouettes of our heads and added magazine cut-outs that describe us.

In science we learned about ecosystems and made terrariums.

We were assigned classroom jobs (government themed jobs)

We learned mountain language (grammar practice)

Our speical today was drama

In math we learned the block meathod in math with pictures

by Tyler Becca and Laura 

9-5-12/9-6-12

In Social Studies we made a puzzle about some American Indian tribes with pictures and facts

We had band today and learned about vibrations

In math we learned long division with Mrs. Peaden

We are building our stanama, and today we were reading for 10 minutes

The word of the week is behoove

Yesterday we had P.E. for our special

Yesterday we we watered our terrariams for the eco-systems unit

Yesterday in math we worked on word problems with Mrs.Peaden

Today is the 8/180 day of school

We've had trouble in the hallway walking in a straight line and talking and Mrs.F-V has to breathe and cool off

by Sarah and Isabel 

9-4-12

We are the recycling team and we did it today

We did math with Mrs.Peaden and we learned how to do our homework

We learned a stratagy in writing called sketching

Our special today was science with Mrs.churchill

In science, we planted seeds in out turariam

We learned what our jobs are for this week

We learned what the word of the week is

                                ~typed by Sarah and Isabel 

First Week of School

Here is what we learned during the first week of school:

August 31, 2012

Today we started the science investigation about what happened to the riverbank environment that is now Crabtree Mall

We signed up for electives

We learned the fluency strategy - a good fit

We started building our terrariums

Our special was Art yesterday and today our special was Strings

We cut out pictures from magazines of words that describe us.

Yesterday we had a substitute (Mrs. F-V was at a science workshop)

We learned a bunch of methods to multiply 2 digit numbers

We traced our faces

Mrs. F-V had to breathe to calm down because of all the talking.

We earned a sweet reward for reading

We worked on our time capsule

We are ready for the weekend!

8/29/12

We set our reading journals

In Math, we learned the partial products method

In Math, we multiplied using rectangular sections

We took a spelling assessment

In Science, we learned that Orbit gum holds its flavor the longest

We tried to build stamina reading to self

In reading we learned what CAFE means

We went to a special today, Media and created a PRIDE matrix for the media center

We earned 35 in 3 days

Yesterday we went to a PRIDE assembly

We took a recycling tour because we are the recycling team

We learned new signs to sign the Pledge of Allegiance

8/27/12 

We created our PRIDE matrix

We learned our schedule

In Math, we learned expectations from Mrs. Peaden

We learned about classroom jobs

We did an experiment on bublegum in Science

We toured the classroom and learned where things were

We listened to Mrs. F-V read First Day Jitters

The reading strategy we learned was Check for Understanding

Our special today was Music

Chewing gum is okay in class, but water bottles must stay in cubbies

Snack is at 1:35 and we can only drink water with our snack.