Now that's good character!

This week in reading we have been working on character traits and finding evidence from the text to support the character traits. Each group was given a different character from Wonder with character traits. Their job was to find evidence from the text to support these traits. Here is what the students came up with:

Summer

Jack Will

August

Via

Julian

Week of September 29

Reading:   We will continue with our novel study on the book Wonder. We will also be reading nonfiction articles about Buddy Benches, discussing text features, and building our own buddy benches for the playground!

Writing/Language:   We will continue our unit on types of letters by discussing the parts of a friendly letter. We will be writing advice letters to younger grades helping them with their bullying questions! We will also begin looking at letters to the editor.

Math: We will continue to practice our basic multiplication facts and be discussing strategies to subtract large numbers. Students will be required to study multiplication flash cards for ten minutes a night until they master their facts. Please initial their studying log nightly.

Science/Social Studies: In science we’ll continue our animal unit w/ classification & animal senses. In social studies we will continue in our explorer unit by discussing the Columbian Exchange.

Anchor Down these Assessments/Due Dates

• We will have a science animals classification test on Thursday.
• We will have a test on our Wonder vocab set #3 next Tuesday.

100 Book Challenge Goals:
Good- 77 steps

Better- 140 steps

 

Captain of the Week:

         Our Captain of the Week is Ben Mabry!! Ben is a wonderful student and always actively participates in class. He displays the character traits of: sense of
          humor, respect, cooperation, and curiosity on a regular basis. To find out what Ben learns throughout this week, follow us on Twitter @glay_Jessica

 

Reminders from the Marina:
-Walk to School Day: Wednesday, October 8^th
-Chic-Fil-A Spirit Night- Thursday, October 16^th
-School Spirit Day- Friday, October 17^th
-Parent-Teacher conferences will be held Oct. 21^st & 23^rd
-Parents- On the newsletter there is a note that says: sign anywhere on this newsletter for +5 extra credit on lowest test grade. Kids- Shhhh! Show me by Wednesday & don’t tell your friends!

 

 

Help our classroom by donating to our classroom grant to get Legos to learn math with!
http://www.donorschoose.org/
project/build-it-and-they-will-come/1323424/

 

Animal Classification

Today, students used the iPad app called "Pic Collage" to show what they know about animal classification! They were each given a type of vertebrate- reptiles, birds, fish, mammals, or amphibians- to make a Pic Collage on to share with the class. Here are some pictures of the students working and their final products!

 

Choose Kind

Today students used a website called Blendspace to learn more about bullying. Students watched a series of videos- the song "Mean" by Taylor Swift, an interview with Patricia Palacco about her book Bully, a clip from the news about a group of boys banding together to stop bullying, and another video clip about random acts of kindness. As students were watching the videos, they answered comprehension questions about what they were learning. What's great about Blendspace is that students can work at their own pace! Here are some pictures of Blendspace in action:

Arrrrr! Dress Like a Pirate Day!

Today was Dress Like a Pirate Day at school! Thanks to those who participated!!

We even got to see a fun pirate-themed play about conserving energy!! This will go along great with our next environment PBL "Tread Lightly"!

Explorer Memoirs

To integrate our Explorers unit in social studies and our most recent writing unit on Memoirs, today in class students wrote memoirs for our explorers. But there was a catch... the memoirs could only be SIX words!! Here is what the students came up with:


"Discovered land, met Indians, made connections" by Hayden & Graham (Christopher Columbus)
"Born in Italy, sailed to America" by Bodey & Kyle (Christopher Columbus)
"Explored Hudson River, Hudson Bay, Dutch" by Nathan & Dmitriy (Henry Hudson)
"Eric the Red, son Lief Erikkson" by Mason & Devin (Eric the Red/Lief Eriksson)
"Discovered the strait, valley, river, bay" by Brandon & Matthew (Henry Hudson)
"Robert LaSalle sailed the Mississippi River" by Ben & Joe (Robert LaSalle)
"Claimed New York and also Canada" by Colby & Jaxson (Henry Hudson)
"Henry River, Hudson Bay, 13 Colonies" by Ethan & Trenton (Henry Hudson)
"An Indian attack killed Ferdinand Magellan" by Lucas & Nate (Ferdinand Magellan)
"Christopher Columbus went to the Bahamas" by Hunter & Edward (Christopher Columbus)

Off to the Magical Forest!

We had so much fun at the Magic Wood Forest Fair and we learned so much about landfills, recycling, how lumber is made into paper, and more!


Learning how trees go through the saw to make lumber!

Sawdust!

Did you know they use every part of the tree?!

Do you know how plywood is made? We do!

Snack break!

Miss Glay's favorite part- learning bow to make paper! We got to make our own piece of paper!!

Did you know a tree doctor is called an arborist?!

 Jaxson, our tree doctor, checking to see how the trees are feeling! 

 These boys are the BEST!!!

Learning about good fire vs. bad fire and what makes a fire: 

Lunch time! Who doesn't love free pizza!? 

Learning about the gifts of the forest!

 The forest helps with erosion too!

 Learning about the circle of life- everything on our planet is connected!

 Joe, our magician!

Wow, the forest really is magical!! What a fun field trip! :)