Our Short Week

What's New in Room 3:

Landform Posters

Our class made little posters that told about a kind of landform. Some of the landforms we learned about were delta, canyon, archipelago, and peninsula. We found the information by researching in atlases and on the computer. Each poster contains a picture of the landform, a good definition and tells two places where that kind of landform can be found. Landform posters look great on our wall!

Decimals

Today was our Unit 4 test on decimals. Before the test, we did some decimal riddles and we measured different Thanksgiving objects. For example, we had a paper turkey, string beans, a bag of nuts, some dried corn and a can of cranberry sauce to measure. We measured each object in centimeters, millimeters, decimeters and meters. It was a good way to review for our test.

Sequencing

In reading, we are focusing on sequencing important details from a text. We read some chapters from two books and we organized the important events in a planner. Then we answered questions about the chapters. The two books we used were Stone Fox and The Egypt Game.

Narrative Writing

In writing, we are learning how to write personal narratives. Personal narratives are stories that really happened to us. We started out with organizers. To learn about setting the stage and writing thoughtful endings, we looked at examples from picture books and told how they started and ended.

This was a fun, short week! Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

by Hunton, Tommy, Olivia and Nate

Our Busy, Busy Week

We had popcorn yesterday. The popcorn maker was not working well at the last school store, and so after someone fixed it, we tried it out. It worked really well! The popcorn was delicious.


Today we showed some of the first graders our retelling plays. We've been working on the strategy of retelling in reading, and we chose picture books to retell and then turn into plays. It was really fun!



This morning we had rock and roll Friday. We also had school store. It was a very busy day!

by SHANNON and Drew

Our Busy, Busy Week

This week in social studies we are making a map of our classroom. All the boys are in one group and the girls are in another. We measured all the parts of the classroom. The maps are going to have a map scale and a map key and a grid with an index. We're almost done and adding color to the maps.


One morning this week, each group got a thesaurus and looked up an emotion word. We made lists of synonyms on the white board. Then we wrote poetry about a certain feeling. We came up with really long lists!


Sometimes on Friday mornings, we put on music and dance to it. Today was rock and roll Friday, and lots of the kids were dancing. (The teachers were, too!) It was a lot of fun to watch. Last Friday was disco Friday (and our fall party).





Unit 4 in math is about decimals. Today, we made designs on hundreds-grids and then counted what decimal of the whole our design covered.



In reading, some of us are doing retelling plays. We retell a story from a book in a short form and we act it out.



We finished reading the book Bud, Not Buddy. It was our read-aloud book. Everyone loved it. Some of our favorite parts were the funny events in the book, the strangers who were so kind to Bud, and the way Miss O'Reilly read it in an accent.

This week was very exciting! We learned a lot. Who knows what next week will bring?

By Sophie and Claudia