The week ending February 16

A big thank you to all the adults who made our Valentine's Day party such a success. 

Photo booth fun. An extra thank you to Mrs. #16 for taking such great pics, and to #18 for sharing her instamax camera with us.

More party pics 

In addition to the party fun, we've been working hard and learning. Here's what we did this week.

READING:  We read The Extra-good Sunday by Beverly Cleary.  We looked for details about the main characters to which we could connect. For example, most students connected to the main character's attempt to avoid punishment by being extra-good in the hopes that our parents would forget.  For those of you who remember reading the Ramona Quimby yourselves (I remember my third-grade teacher reading them to my class) here is a link where you can find more information about the writer.

Common Core State Standards

WRITING: We learned to identify key ideas in multiple texts as evidence to support our opinion. We learned to write brief notes in the margin as reminders for why the text evidence is important and how it responds to the prompt and supports our claim. One group of industrious students was able to take the next step and collaborate on a draft that incorporates the evidence and the reasoning to support our claims. We will continue this process after the break.

spelling-r controlled vowels, science words
grammar-object pronouns, past tense verbs, future tense verbs,
cursive-capital A, O, and D.

Common Core State Standard

MATH: We continued our work with multi-digit addition. We explored using expanded form to help us see what is really happening when we are regrouping (borrowing and carrying.)

Common Core State Standard

SCIENCE: We assembled wheel-and-axle systems and rolled them down slopes to observe the paths of motion. Then we made changes in the design to see how the paths of motion of affected. The data showed that the standard wheel-and-axle system rolls down a ramp in a straight path. Changing the size of one of the wheels results in a path that turns towards the smaller wheel. Other designs resulted in wobbly paths.

Click here to see a rather unique wheel-and-axle system in action.


Next Generation Science Standard