Monday, November 14, 2011

This Year is ZOOMING By!

The past few weeks, we have been studying motion by performing tons of experiments! Monday, we learned about "zoomers" and their movement! It took a while to get them all working... and some of us weren't able to get them to zoom but we all had fun trying!



In reading, we have been focused on determine character traits. We read a chapter of "Wayside Stories from Wayside School" and created a chart to describe the first character in the story, Mrs. Gorf. We used evidence from the story to describe her character.


Then, we worked in groups to read a few more chapters - each chapter is about a different student in the school! Each group created a model of their student and wrote about their character traits! They turned out great!

Dana

Rondi

Jason

Paul


Many of these characters did not have very positive character traits - it gave us a great opportunity to discuss what kind of character WE should have!

In Social Studies, we began talking about natural resources. We are learning that we cannot use up all of our resources now... they're not so easy to get back!

In Math, we are learning to complete Missing Part Subtraction problems. These are word problems where some information is missing - for example: Kris has 25 crayons in his box. 13 crayons are broken and the rest are not. How many crayons are not broken?

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Balancing Act

This week we have had a lot of practice finding balance... at least when it comes to crayfish, arcs, and triangles! Our first balance and motion experiment had us learning to use counterweights (clothespins) to balance a crayfish (made of... paper) in many different ways!

We found out we could balance our crayfish...

 on their nose...


on their side...

even on their bellies!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Candy Dandy Read Along!

On the last day of October, my crazy reading friends FINALLY got to read & munch on their hard earned candy corn! I was SO sad to miss this day, but thanks to our wonderful sub for the day I was able to get some pictures to share with you! Enjoy! I'll be back with more from this week soon!





I hope you all had a SAFE and Happy Halloween!!!