Jumpstart Read for the Record!

Thank you American Eagle for donating Llama Llama, Red Pajama to our classroom! And thank you Ashley Stringham (my daughter!) and store manager of the AE store in Charlestowne Mall for reading the book to the students!

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Nature Dan and the World of Insects!

Enjoy!

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Wonderful Wednesday!

Another whirlwind day! We made get well cards for Mr. Ortiz who is in the hospital. Then, Nature Dan from the Bartlett Nature center brought in his insects....wow...did we learn a lot!

Alyssa was our child of the day. Enjoy a video of her reading to the class:

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I will post pictures of Nature Dan this weekend. Ask your student about the Madagascar Hissing Roach!!!!

Tailspin Tuesday!

What a BUSY, BUSY, day!!!!

2 Mystery Readers
2 students reading to the class
1 trip to the library
mealworm observations
butterfly observations
reading workshop
math workshop
writers workshop

Enjoy!!!!

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Dr. Torres Visits our Classroom!

Dr. Torres promised on Friday that he would return with a surprise...and he did! He took time out of his busy schedule to read April and Esme Tooth Fairies by Bob Graham! It was a fantastic (and funny!) book. I wonder who in our class will be the first to read it tomorrow?!?!?



Enjoy! We did!!!

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Thank you, Dr. Torres! Please come back....anytime!

Busy Week

Today we were honored by a visit from Dr. Torres!!! What a surprise! He took a moment to speak to the kids and even took a look at our meal worms. He promised to return with a "little surprise" for us. We can't wait!

We did get our meal worms in this week and the students are busy doing their scientific observations. We are learning about insects.

Today we learned how important schema is to reading...to writing...to math...and more. The more you know, the more you will understand. We talked about how to build schema: reading, going places (museums, etc.), conversations with others--- all our experiences help us build schema.

We continued to work on our personal narratives..another place we use schema. We also learned more about expanded form in math.

Have a GREAT weekend!

Oreo Cookie Count!

Monday we did our 1st online project with Projects by Jen: Oreo Cookie Count.

We first estimated how high we could stack our Oreo cookies. Then we made 2 attempts, counting our best stack to calculate our averages. Our classroom average was 14 cookies high.

We did our cookie stacking with our friends from Mrs. Maha's class during our weekly integration time. We also completed graphs and analyzed the data.

Today students began using a reading response journal to leave "tracks of their thinking" as they read. Writing a response to their reading helps them to go deeper in their thinking about a book.

We also began writing our personal narratives using the pictures they brought in. Tomorrow they will learn more about "show, don't tell" as they write.

In the afternoon, students took their math MAP test. Results of the reading and math MAP tests will go home Oct. 6 with progress reports.

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