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?