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October 26, 2007
MATH
We started a money unit this week. We are making a town and it's
called "218 Town." Yesterday we started writing our job
applications. We decided what stores we are going to include in
our town.
WRITING
We have been editing and revising our stories this week. We are
also doing cursive practice, and continue to do spelling
practice.
READING
We finished Henry Huggins and signed up for our new literature circle books. We have a few options including Shiloh, Chocolate Fever, Stone Fox, A series of Unfortunate Events, Bunnicula, Stuart Little, and Ralph S. Mouse.
ART
Wednesday was our last day of art. We made puppets. We cut
out foam heads and covered them in plaster, then plastered them on a
stick. We then painted them and glued felt on for the body.
Then we decorated them and added hands and feet made out of plaster
balls. When were all finished we practiced our drawing skills by
drawing our puppets.
Written by Zakarea, Olivia, and Lily
October 12, 2007
MATH
We are doing rounding. We are keeping up with our math boxes
every morning and our problem of the day. We are also
working on place value and reading big numbers like a thousand, a
million, a billion, and on and on and on up to a google.
Rebecca wrote a google on the board. A google is a one followed
by 100 zeros.
WRITING
We have been writing our cursive letters. We are still working on
our stories with detail and giving our stories a good ring so they
sound good. Our stories are called When I flew Ten Feet, My Great Grandma Ruth, A bike ride to Tin Fish, and When my Little Brother was First Born. We do spelling Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thrusday and the spelling test on Friday.
READING
We are still reading Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary in
literature circles. Some of us have been listening to reading
tapes and following along in the book. Today in Henry Huggins we
read up to page 119. In Wayside School is Falling Down...somebody
forgot to take off their motorcycle helmet in school so Mrs. Jewls
could not understand them. Rondi grew two new front teeth, and
James called Bebe "bebay."
ART
We started our new rotation, art, this week. We are making really
filled in pictures of people. We want to draw it and use the
lines and the colors to show expression. Chloe, from St. Olaf has
been teaching us.
SWIMMING
This week we have been swimming at the YMCA. The people that know
how to swim like to drop a swimming brick down to the bottom of the
pool and then you swim down and go get it. It's really hard
because there is all this weight. You have to do a test to go in
the deep end. You have to tread for thirty seconds and then you
float on your back for ten seconds and then tread for ten more
seconds. If you pass you can go in the deep end because you can
float and swim and tread. It is easy for some people, not so easy
for others. The deep end is nine feet deep.
written by Martin, Gabriella, Olvivia, Blake
NOTE: Next week there will be no spelling or homework due to the shortened week.
October 5, 2007
MATH
This week we learned a new game called "101 and Out." Everyone
has also finished their clock packets. We've continued on math
boxes. They usually have addition, multipilication, subtraction,
and problem solving. Usually the first problem involves
base ten blocks.
READING
We started a book called "Wayside School is Falling Down." It is
about a school that has thirty stories with one classroom on each
story. So it is very tall and skinny. There are thirty
chapters as there are thirty stories. We also read a poem
by William Blake called the Tyger (Tiger). We started literature
groups with a book called Henry Huggins. It is about a boy who
meets a dog and they have adventures. He named the dog
Ribsy. In literature groups everbody has a different job.
During the story when they find an important part or a word they don't
know or a question about the story they put a post-it note with a ?, !,
"Word."
WRITING
We have done more cursive this week adding the letters C,D,A, and G.
We have continued witing stories without using past-tesnse
summaries. We are trying to add more details. We want
detailed seed stories not watermellon stories. We have been
working on writing a good lead sentance.
MUSIC
Today in music we watched a movie called Beathoven lives
upstairs. Beathoven was deaf and couldn't hear. He could
only hear the music in his head. He keeps playing and playing
inside his head and he makes a lot of thumping sounds. We have
also been singing Turn the Glasses Over while playing xylophones, tone
bells, bass, glockenspiel. We have also been singing "Like a
Mighty Stream," and all of the songs we wrote about in last Friday's
letter.
written by Wesley, Saara, Thomas, Savati
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