Week 24

HAPPY VACATION!!

Week 23

Thank you to all of our families for your contributions!  Our earned party was a GREAT success!  When students arrived on Thursday morning they were thrilled to find our classroom transformed into an enormous fort!  We enjoyed a long, cozy read aloud.  After, we struggled through eating donuts on a string and then enjoyed an exciting game of charades.  The food was festive and delicious!  We also got in some good learning this week!!  During writing we continued our work on preparing for the SBAC.  In reading workshop we began character studies.  Each student shared about a character from their independent reading book.  We talked about finding evidence in our stories that tells us about the type of person our character is.  On Wednesday we had Dartmouth students help the class explore energy by setting up a fun potato  experiment.  In math students took an assessment.  We are now beginning a new unit on multiplication, division and area.  

Week 22

We had a busy and productive week!  In math we concluded our work on unit four.  We worked on ordering and comparing fractions.  For writing this week we began to prepare for the SPAC (a reading and writing test the students will take this spring.)  In preparation of this assessment we read 2 different articles, took notes on the main ideas and supporting details.  Next students were given a  graphic organizer to plan an essay incorporating a thesis with supporting details from both sources.  This was HARD work!  The class took this work on with great focus and confidence.  On Friday students shared their non fiction teaching books with classmates, then we set up a book museum for everyone to enjoy!  Our reading focus this week was exploring Hartford history.  We ended the week in the sunny and cold forest with fire-side s'mores!