The last weeks of school

Math-We've done quick images! We were trying to find the volume of different buildings. It was awesome! We also reviewed strategies on how to find the volume and took the assessment. Another fun things was playing math games from our class web page. One of the games was called "X Detectives". First you have to drive around in a car and choose from a lot of different math games to play. Each time it gets harder. We also played a game called "Point of View". In this game, you had to use different points of view to figure out what the character saw (of a building). We finished an end of year math test! Some of the problems were challenging, but we did well! We all have something to work on over the summer!
Reader's Workshop-We finished Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen! It was a very exciting book-it takes place in 1776. We had Popsicles during read aloud (it was very hot that day) because we turned in all our books to the library. We wrote letters to our buddies about our books and they wrote back to us. We learned about the summer reading programs at the local libraries. We also finished our DRA assessments to see how we've improved as readers.
Writer's Workshop-We wrote reports on our important person to our state. We also completed posters, power points, brochures and great speeches! We shared well-written paragraphs to help inspire other writers.
Social Studies-We had a very successful wax museum, Mrs. Randall said we were one of the best! We learned a lot from each other who made an impact on our state. Some of the people were; Ira Allen, Seth Warner, Col Will Roy and Clarina Nichols. We Skyped Col Will Roy in Afghanistan and Madeleine Kunin in Burlington. It was fun!
Science- We made food webs to see how different organism connects in the food chain. We took a fun field trip to Preston Pond for a hike and to explore the environment. We had a our last ELF lesson at the beaver pond and observed many cool organisms! We picked partners that had dependent organisms. Together we researched them and created field guides. Some people made power points (which will be on our class web site) or did a paper format (which was put together as a class book). After, we wrote a letter to the conservation commission (Mrs. Gilbert) to protect our organism's habitat. We also got into science groups to conduct a properties of matter investigation. We wanted to see what would melt faster; a plan ice cube, one with salt and one with sand. We noticed that the salt worked best.

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Happy Summer!
Kyle, Sam, Shawn, Nate, Austin and Lindsay

The week of May 17

Welcome to the week of May 17-21.
On Monday we skyped colonel Will Roy and it was a lot of fun. We went to the whale of the sale in Mrs.Larabee's class. They had a lot of stuff to buy there. We discussed the weekly reader topic Allergy Attack.
On Tuesday we had an echo field trip. Everybody had a lot of FUN, especially at the jeopardy game. On the Spirit of Ethan Allen 3. It was a 2 hour ride, but we all had fun.
On Wednesday we wrote about what we did, learned and favorite part at the Echo field trip. At readers workshop we saw a deer and it was trying to jump over the fence. At writers workshop Lauren came into help.
On Thursday we did math and Sal's sub shop. Wyatt did a presentation on the book he read The Lord of The Rings The Fellowship of The Rings. At the end of the day we had Library and that was the last Library we could check books out of the Library.
On Friday we did flash cards and figured out how many boxes there were in the 2d shapes. Then we had Guidance and our class made the record of 41 seconds.

By Emma and Bliss in Mrs.Randall's class!

We will create a smilebox and post it on Monday!!:)

Week of monday the 10th in may.

Monday:math- We played the fill 2 decimal game in which we add decimals.
Break-Brandon brought in cupcakes. we had a science NECAP test.

Tuesday: Math- Adding decimals reviewing homework We played a game called Quizville where you put decimals on a number line, we went to an MMU concert in the gym. Readers/writer's workshop- guided reading groups share, wax person

Wednesday- for P.O.D we were making tables in math we reviewed our homework and played the fill 2 decimal game. science NECAPs readers and writers workshop- we worked on typing up our report. We also worked on responding to text. Group 2 had composition.

Thursday-P.O.D-we made a grid. math-reviewing homework and we had a math assessment readers writers workshop-Wax figure and book responses. In place of read aloud-skyping the tech group who is a small group of people explaining how we use technology in the classroom, we also had sharing.

Friday- math- In math we reviewed our test and we did an online rice game- guidance we used crates to get over a fake lava pit. We had science NECAPS at 10:15. and then we had read aloud.
Lukas and Aurora

Week Of May Third

Monday- We had concert practice for Tuesday's concert. It was hard to get back to our normal schedule! We have had a week off for April break. In Elf we went to a local river (Brown's river) to examine what organisms live there. We found cray-fish, insects and snails. We'll be uploading pictures of what we found on Monday. We also watched a webcast from Scholastic. We watched 5 authors like Gordon Korman compete head to head on their knowledge of kid's books. The winner chose one class (who registered) to give books to. I thought it was pretty cool to see how they were competing. The questions were interesting!

Tuesday- We had our concert. We sang and played recorder songs and the gym was full! We didn't have art because the concert took longer than we were expecting. In Spanish, we learned more about a different language and played a game called "Swat". We also took a test. In math we played a game that taught us more about decimals and fractions. We skimmed and scanned for fractions and decimals in Math To Know and the Burlington Free Press.

Wednesday- We had music and sang songs and played games like stop and drop. We also picked a slide show for different topics and technology. In math we played a decimal game that was like War. It helped everybody understand decimals. In composition, we made songs to go with Hot Cross Buns.

Thursday- We planned what kids are going to show at the technology presentation next week. Like making movies, Google Earth and how we use the Flip camera. Wyatt and Lukas made a movie that they showed us for a book response. We also had a reader's theater group present. Lindsay and Kathleen presented the book The Perfect Pet. We also have an incubator with 24 chicken eggs inside. We are going to raise them until they hatch and then we'll be giving them to a farm. When we candled the eggs, most of them were stuck to one side. Mrs. Randall said that this is the first time she has ever seen this. We hope for the best! We are going to be Skyping Madeleine Kunin next Tuesday morning so Eleanor can ask further questions for her wax museum figure.

Friday- In guidance we played a game with crates that involved a lot of team work. We are getting our pictures taken this afternoon! Eleanor and I will be Skyping our K-Buddies this afternoon to talk about what they've been working on this week. Clara gave a book talk today. The message of her book was to never give up and the main character travels a lot. If you're looking for a good book, check out our class wiki!

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Eleanor and Brandon

Week of April 19

Monday-We are brainstorming ideas for our technology presentation. We are looking forward to presenting what we do in the classroom! In math we added fractions to equal one-whole. We also played fraction war. It was very fun! Mrs. Andrews class came in to watch the Smilebox we created with them. They really enjoyed it! We started a new read aloud book called Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen. So far it is very good!
Tuesday-We did a book-jacket write on My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig. After writing our pieces, we realized that telling a teacher is important when you are being bullied. In math we compared our main dishes that we ate the night before using bar graphs. A lot of people chose "other" than the chicken, beef, pasta or tofu. It was also t-shirt day for our school spirit week! Fourth graders wore the color orange.
Wednesday-In the morning we created another bar graph to compare our data to yesterday. We noticed that "other" and "pasta" were both the mode. After, we went outside for Jump Rope For Heart. We jumped 40 minutes straight! We had music in the afternoon to practice our songs for the concert.
Thursday-In the morning we had an Earth Day special issue of Weekly Reader. We learned different ways to protect the Earth. It was crazy hair day and we saw a lot of great hairdos!
Friday-In the morning we read Weekly Reader and look forward to discussing the articles later today. We will also watch the movie Johnny Tremain and talk about the history and how that effected our state. We can't wait to watch it! This afternoon we will go out and play with our K-Buddies! It will be fun!



Have a nice vacation!
Isabel and Alexis

Week of April 16

Monday: We got a great new book called The Way To Go! The book was donated to our school by Washburn's Autobody in Williston. It's about making good choices. We are creating a bulletin board with our reflections. In math we practiced adding fractions. Isabel and Bliss were this week's K-Readers and read the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold. The kindergartners really enjoyed it! In reader's workshop we had a fun time sharing our literature circle books. We made bread crumbs...attempting to make bread. We all enjoyed tasting what is "close" to bread.

Tuesday: Today in art we chose the piece we would like to go in the art show. We had a mystery person bring in cheese for Eleanor's presentation. We heard all of the photo stories and books. They were all very interesting. We reviewed homework on fractions and that was very helpful.

Wednesday: We rehearsed all the songs we will sing in the concert. Wyatt and Lukas shared an awesome game to help us with fractions called Guide the Gecko. Today in writer's workshop, we had four main groups. The groups were comics, The Way To Go, Science and Wax Museum. Did you know that an 100ML ice cube and water have almost the same exact mass?

Thursday: Visiting author, Tracy Campbell Pearson spoke with us in the music room. Did you know that she was born in 1956? Her cat is named Zuloo? We made a Jing for Mrs. Soule about fun fraction sites we like. We played a game called Frosty Fractions-we had a blast!

Friday: Another successful day of bread making! YEAH!!! Finally!! We made another Jing for Mrs. Andrews so she can make photo stories with her students. In reading workshop we read Weekly Reader. We will discuss the articles this afternoon. Half of our class will be dancing with Ms. Duplissa this afternoon. We can't wait!

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Kathleen and Shawn

the week of April 5 th

On Monday today in pod we did a problem using the work back words strategy. Also on Monday we started our fractions unit in math it is lots of fun. In reading we continued literature circles. In science we are learning about matter. We watched a video on the states of matter and their properties. After, we did a what is it? game and described the objects (using their properties) to guess.

On Tuesday we reviewed our addition and subtraction math test. We also discussed our literature circle books. In writing we continued to work on our VT economy pieces due on Friday. In read aloud we are reading The Time Travelers in the Gideon Trilogy. It seems like everyone likes this adventurous story!



Reviewing double-digit multiplication strategies.

On Wednesday we continued to work on fractions using an array who's dimensions were 5x12. Our group had a great discussion on the book Captive of Pitsford Ridge by Janice Oveka. In music group 2 started composition. Those of us in the classroom are doing algebra.


Dividing an array into fractional parts.

On Thursday we started adding fractions together. It was hard to get at first, but it got easier. We will present our finished pieces for Vermont on Friday to Mrs. Randall and to our class and K-buddies next week.

On Friday we helped out our k-buddies in the library as they researched an animal. We are looking forward to the rest of the day and the weekend! We have finally made bread...hope it goes well! :)

C-ya! Bye!
Wyatt and Bliss (photographer)