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.

Personalize a picture slideshow

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!

Slideshow customized with Smilebox

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!

Check out our photo story!!

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)

Week of March 29

Monday: We had ELF. We learned about the White Tailed Deer, habitats and how it sustains the animals. We started a new math unit on fractions and talked about equal fractions using a 4x6 array.


A white-tailed deer skull.



Tuesday: We divided an array into fourths.




Wednesday: we had the last day of composition group and the science group. We worked on our Vermont economy piece and set a due date. we meet in our literature group.


vermont economy

Thursday: we voted for our red clover books in library. I hope the book I voted for wins.



Friday: Wyatt's dad came in to show the pictures they took while on their Africa trip. Next week's bloggers will share Flip Clips of the Africa presentation! We had guidance and did our presentation on the product that our group made and the class would vote if they wanted to by it and Mr. Lane would add up all the hands and tell the group how much money they earned.

Thanks!
Aurora and Marco

the week of the 31st

Mrs. Graf reading to us

Monday: Mrs.Graf read OWNY THE MAIL POUCH POOCH to us. It was about a dog that helped the US Postal Service over the years. The dog will be visiting another school after each classroom has heard his story. We also watched a movie called Justin Morgan Had a Horse and there is a literature circle group reading this book.

Tuesday: We started making our VT Economy books and our group is working well gathering pictures and facts for our book. We look forward to sharing the book with our class! In Spanish today, we had a test about what to call grown-ups and your friends.

Wednesday: In math we had an assessment that everyone seemed to do well on! We look forward to starting fractions. We got our book orders! Some of us got many books! I can't wait to read mine! In music we learned a new song on the recorder called Chinese Song. We also have composition, which is very fun! We get to make our own songs using a program on the lap tops.

Thursday: We had a 1/2 day today! We walked to the post office to mail out our letters to our state representatives. We look forward to hearing back from them! At the end of the day, we did a science investigation that was very fun! We wanted to find out what the temperature was for an ice cube as it melts.

Walking to the post office.


Handing the envelope to the post master.


Having fun infront of the post office!

Friday: Today we had another 1/2 day! (conferences) We met with our literature circles and discussed what was happening in our books. We have learned many new words! My group is reading Cave of Falling Waters. It is about an Indian girl who is trying to survive a time period where illness is usually fatal. At the end of the day we discussed what we had learned about our science investigation and put our data into a line graph. We had fun doing Brain Builders at the end of the day!


Sharing evidence from the text in literature circles.


Our groups work well discussing!

Hope you had fun reading our Blog!
Clara and Brandon

Week Of 3/15/10

Monday

Today we had a P.O.D (Problem Of The Day) On a big fish tank. After that we had P.E and played hockey and played a fun game. After P.E we wrote a writing prompt on the book "The Sandman" Then we shared some of them during authors chair. We used the Mimio a lot today. Also today we started to make books about a book using the same authors craft as the book "The Bee Man".

We used the Mimio to take notes.


We are creating story boards to plan our VT economy stories.



A story board up close!

Tuesday

We had art this morning and made clay faces of us. We also made our persuasive writing piece to the VT legislators and we'll be finishing them on Friday. Shortly after that Ms.Lee came in and we got to see her kids. Then we had Spanish and finished our web scavenger hunts.


Wednesday

We had a P.O.D this morning about a secret number and it was 315. Then we went to music and played recorders, then we came back to review our math homework on division stories, then we went out to recess at 12:20 and when we came back in there was no power. Because of that we had a lot of twists in our afternoon. Half the class also goes to composition in the music room, since there was no power, we couldn't use computers so we did some fun worksheets.

Thursday

In the morning we had outdoor hockey. It was also Alexis's B-day! Our read aloud book is getting more suspenseful with every chapter! In the afternoon we had Library and then pack up dismissal.

Friday
At 9:15 we had Guidance and started to work on commercializing our items that we made up. Our persuasive letters are due today! A lot of people are working on finishing up today we have our last day of word study in the same classes.

Have a nice weekend,
Isabel and Nate

Sugar House Trip

We had a fun time going to the sugar house in Johnson, Vermont! We interviewed one of the sugar-makers, Deb. We found out that she taps at least 500 trees each year. They sell their maple syrup to friends and family from their sugar house. They don't advertise, but they make a good living doing this each spring.

Create your own free slideshow

Did you know?
1. You need to cut wood all year round.
2. It takes 86 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.


Happy Sugaring!
Kathleen and Lindsay

The week of March 8th

Monday;
Today in gym we started our hockey unit. We also read, "The Beeman" to help prepare for writing a vermont book as a class. We finished our game of, Close to 1,000.


Tuesday;
In library we are doing pennies for peace, we have found out that we have raised,
$453.58. We also read some parts of the book, "The Worlds Dumbest Laws" they were really funny laws! One of the laws was, It's illegle to look at a moose from an airplane. In spanish we did a web scavenger hunt on Spain.

Wednesday;
Today in music we learned how to play, Lady come, can't you see?, and, Rain, rain go away, on the recorders. At the end of the day we did some Brain Quests. Half our class went to composition and the rest of us worked on our VT economy research.

Thursday;
Today in gym we played a hockey game, and Mr.Steinman said that we played great! We did not have Library today because Ms.Burroughs was not here. In science, we shared our ice cube investigation and brainstormed/planned our next investigation. For homework we found different solids that could melt.

Friday;
Today we used the guess, check, think and revise strategy for our problem of the day. We used the Mimio to explore the digital version of the Weekly Reader. We learned about 3-D effects. We thought that the music was cool! We also have a very busy day, Morning Meeting, Library,Guidance!

Create a slideshow

We get to go to a sugarhouse together, and will report out to our class on Monday.
Bye!


Lindsay & Kathleen

Feb.March

Playing with the Mimio tools!


Playing a coordinate graphing game! I thought this was cool!


Shapes we made.


Element cubes hang in our classroom. We liked decorating them!


A few of Mrs. Andrews K-kids gave us a tour of the animal barn house.


The Kindergartners made a really cool sculptures with Legos!

Monday: we did moodle. We wrote what our stance is for our VT persuasive letter to the legislators. Then we went to interview kindergartners.
Tuesday: we went to art and watched a movie.We went over homework and math.
Wednesday:we went to music and played recorders,we did a big since experiment at the end of the day.
Thursday:We went to p.e and practiced basketball.
Friday: We read our WR news and filled out the brain builders on the back,And we went over our since experiment.

This week, we got back from vacation (Wyatt's still on vacation) and everyone had a great time. When we came back, there was work to be done and a cool new white board in our room. Mrs. Randall has been having fun, and so have we! We get to write on the board with the Mimio pen! We also got our book orders! Some of us got a lot of books!
Mrs. Randall made a Jing that showed us how to get to our math homework on Thursday night. Our class discussed what we thought on the Moodle.

Your Bloggers,
Kyle and Clara

Update from Wyatt

Hello everyone! Hope you are enjoying your school break! Wyatt sent a neat site for you to check out! Post a comment about what you think after. Can't wait to see you on Wednesday!
Mrs. Randall

albums.phanfare.com/isolated/ieDUKLeN/1/4576755

Our Friend in Africa!

An update from Wyatt and his family!

We've been in Africa for 1 1/2 days now and are having a ball. All is well. Smooth flights.


We just saw a pack of warthogs wander through our friends yard! Picture attached. I am also attaching pictures of us walking this morning (also near our friend's house). We hiked through the bush for a bit and then hit this dirt road, which we took back to their house.


We are going camping for the weekend in South Africa on a game reserve. Hopefully Wyatt will have more wildlife to report on Monday.

Week of Feb. 8

Football and baseball cards-100 of them!

Tuesday was the 100th day of school! We had all-school morning meeting was held in the gym so kids could use the stage for skits about the 100th day of school. Marco and I went to Mrs. Munson's room to take pictures and video of her students' collections of 100 things. In writer's workshop we chose from 3 cool prompts do do a short write on. We continued with health class and learned about not smoking or chewing tobacco.



This is what your lungs look like after smoking over a long period of time.


This is a bubbly lung. After smoking it fills with tar and looks like this! Gross!

On Wednesday we had the science fair and got to see some good experiments. I learned that wool can create static electricity with a comb and some paper.
On Thursday we had our end-of-unit math assessment on geometry and measurement. I thought it was pretty easy!

On Friday we had an early Valentine's Day celebration! Some of us gave out Valentine's. Mrs. Randall gave us much needed pencils! :)Mrs. Randall read us a book about a little pig who persuaded a fox not to eat him. The fox did so much work that he didn't have the energy to eat the pig! After, we helped each other create strong statements to support our stance for the persuasive letters to our legislators.

Have a great next week!
Emma and Marco

Week of Feb. 1

Welcome to this week!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

On Monday in math we continued our study of polygons and found definitions. We switched our desk pattern. We put together our element cubes and they turned out well! Once they were all up we had a museum walk to take a closer look at them. If you wanted to read one, we put it in our "books to read" section of our reader's notebook.
In science had a question-what are the states of matter? The states of matter are solid, liquid and gas. There is also another state of matter called plasma. We did a lot of science. We discussed if certain things were matter. For example, dust is matter. It takes up space and it has mass.
In art we sculpted our faces out of clay. It was pretty hard because we had to put water on it to make it soft again.
In math we have been doing Logopaths on the computer. We also played "guess my rule" which we would find a shape and give three clues for someone to figure out what the shape was.
In Reader's Workshop we watched an awesome trailer of the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief! This inspired us to create booktalks and responses that catch people's eye!
In health we reviewed what we had learned k-3 and we learned more about bacteria and viruses.
In Spanish, Senora Rena started a book about Pablo Picasso.
Also this week, Mrs. Randall showed us a picture prompt of her daughter, Sofia, in a crying fit! We could write about her point of view of what we thought happened that night or the last time you cried that hard. I thought that she was crying because she didn't get enough sleep, but Easton took her pen and that REALLY upset her!
We took a cool field trip to Montpelier and had a really good time! We got to see a bill pass, took a tour of the State House, visited the VT Historical Museum, and interviewed our legislators.

See ya!
Lukas and Clara

Week of Jan. 26

Emma was the student of the week this week. She brought in her "Me Bag" and her VT teddy bear.

Math-We are working on shapes, area and perimeter. We have used many different benchmarks to help us estimate! Some fun activities we did are finding the perimeter of our classroom and mapping out 100 feet. Using our hand-span to measure is a cool tool!


For our POD we have been working on reviewing our double-digit multiplication strategies. The two strategies that we use most often are partial products and distributive property. We also use the lattice method. I like partial products best!

Specials-In art we worked on our clay sculptures of our faces. In music we are learning how to use the recorders. In PE we are doing a dance unit with two cool songs.

In reading we've been working on our element cubes. We are excited to put them together! In read aloud we are liking it because it's cool how they travel back to 1763.


Social Studies-We are working on tracking bills and learning more about what happens at our state house. Mrs. Randall has been taking small groups to explore what bills are being talked about and if we would like to write our own. We are learning more using a booklet called "Under the Golden Dome" and using web sites. Today we will be getting a booklet called "The Adventures of a Bill". I learned that the state's motto is "Freedom and Unity".

Elf-I took a video of the puppet show (check out our wiki to see this video. It was took long to upload to my blog), learning how animals migrate and live and stay warm in the winter. We also watched a slide show of different kids of animals. Some animals camouflage into trees to stay alive from predators.




Science-Last week we did an experiment on bird beaks and how many different pieces each bird beak can pick up. We made a single bar graph on how many pieces of food each beak could pick up. This is a video we took of the experiment happening.


We are having fun learning about what is matter and the properties of matter. We did an experiment on air to see if it was matter and it turned out that it was. I know air is matter because it takes up space inside the balloon and you can feel it inside the balloon.

Hope you had a great week! We can't wait to visit our K-Buddies this afternoon! They are learning about poetry so we will be sharing our favorite poems with them. A poem that I've written is called "Candy".
Sweet sugar melting in your mouth
candy
colorful and sour
candy
little big chewy or hard
I love candy!

Eleanor and Nate

Week of Jan. 18

Some of our math questions.


We presented measurement questions using the elmo. Each group shared evidence to support their answer.


We created measurement benchmarks to help us estimate when we can't find the exact measurement.


We watched a VT counties video. We learned about what each counties history was.


Some of us added to our class Wiki.



Book jacket prompt-Big Words for Little People. It was fun to make different stories!



Wyatt shares his "me bag".



Creating the bar graph using the elmo.


This is the bird beaks inquiry experiment bar graph.


Have a good weekend!
Shawn and Lindsay

Week of Jan.11

Make a Smilebox slideshow

In science we tested how many pennies it would take to move a dish with different weights in it. It was pretty fun! Dropping the pennies inside the cup a challenge!
In social studies we went on a fun VT web scavenger hunt! Did you know that a beluga whale was found in Charlotte?

Have a good weekend!
Kyle and Austin M.