Today was all about science! We got our science partners and we went outside into the parking lot and traced each other’s shadows. We noted the time of day and the position of the sun. Later in the day we went and stood in the exact same place and found our shadow was in a different spot! The orientation and shape of our shadow had changed! We finished the day answering our focus question, “How and why does our shadow change during the day?”

We began our day with a lockdown drill at 9:00. We earned 21 tokens for our jar! After the drill we did CNN10 and morning meeting. We also had our first enrichment.

In math we learned about square and cubic units. We also learned about decimeters and kilometers. Lastly, we set the norms for our science meetings and practiced how to disagree …. politely and appropriately.

We began our day by having morning meeting and starting our handshake greeting. We worked in our CNN 10 notebooks and it was our first day taking our own notes for CNN. We got our reading groups and we’re working with a theme of survival. We also began to learn our grammar via Mountain Language

This afternoon we did Math Menu and started our normal routines. In math we learned that EDM is tricky and when they use a capital B it means “Area of the base”!

Lastly, we began science with a photo of star tracks and asked the question, can they help us tell time? We also began to draw our very own scientist for our binder covers!

We had our first all school meeting today! We’re really close to filling Oscar and when we do, that means we’ll have earned a school wide celebration!

We watched CNN 10 and starting on Monday, we’ll begin taking our own notes for discussion. At reading time we listened to Mrs. Buswell read “The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester” and we worked on plot structure. We used our new vocabulary to describe the short stories we read yesterday.

We continued our work on volume and we were introduced to Math Menu Riddler! We finished the day by working more on an art project!

Our day began with CNN, class meeting, and starting a list of writing topics! We saw Mrs. Buswell’s list as an example!

We learned what our learning style inventories meant and practiced more area with fractional units! Tonight we have math homework, math journal page 14! We also played an Everyday Math game online!

Today was a really good day, in the morning we did our morning meeting and we learned about minimal partisan bias in the media. We worked on our foldables and CNN notebooks Oh, and today is our first day with homework! We need to decorate our three theme books.

In math we talked about Math Menu and window panes we also worked on our math journal with area and fractional units. We discovered a pattern about fractional sides. For example, 1/2 inch sides need four small boxes to create a square unit. If we have 1/6 a fractional size, it takes 36 small boxes to create a square unit.

The day began with our first rock ritual for a birthday! We said all nice things about that person, knowing the compliments would flow into the rock. We also earned our class celebration and dropped the tokens into a box that has a clear window shaped like Oscar, our osprey mascot, and we’ll celebrate with a movie and popcorn tomorrow afternoon.

We finished our reading indicators and we practiced bus evacuation. In math we did a team game and then we practiced area and EDM got tricky on us! Lastly, we worked on our learning style inventory!

Reminder: permission slips for tomorrow’s movie!

We began our day with a morning meeting and then we finished up our spelling inventory – there were even some words in French! We worked on our fix it finish it day! We finished our art projects, and then we did our math computation. in math we studied area and we finished the day by talking about our loft rules, fire drills, and lockdowns. Oh, we also got a chance to use our personal fans today!

We began our day with a spelling assessment. We didn’t finish it because it has fifty words – we’ll finish it tomorrow. For our hard work, we earned 7 minutes of choice time. After we had P.E. we had a reading assessment, some of us finished and some of us didn’t. Lunch and recess were fun and we returned to the classroom to learn about fair isn’t equal. Mrs. B had two students reach for quarters and we talked about how it was unfair. We finished our reference book scavenger hunt and we learned about area! It was fun! We finished the day with an art activity!

Tomorrow is fix it, finish it Wednesday!

H. says we had a decent day.
L. says we started to work in our math journal.
C. says we had an extra recess because we were working so hard during our math assessment.
R. says Mrs. B gave us popsicles.
H. also says today was the first day of class leader.
L. also says today was our first day of P.E.
H. also says we did rug math.