Frigid Friday

 Frigid Friday

1^st Grade LA

Hamburger Writing: Monday we started the outline for our persuasive paragraph. I showed the students the ‘hamburger’ we would be filling in. The top ‘bun’ was our introduction. The 3 middle ingredients were our reasons to support our introduction. The last section was the bottom bun, our conclusion. We filled this in and will write the paragraph on Monday. I did not see the kids on Tuesday because of their field trip.

1^st Grade MA

About The Same As:  We are still working with 3 bags of 50. Last week the students were trying to find the heaviest and lightest of the 3 bags. This week, our goal was to take the same 3 bags from last week and make them ‘about the same as’ each other. This required the student to take items out of bags and reweigh them. A lot of trial and error went on, but they all got their bags to weigh about the same. This lesson helped reinforce the idea that two sets of a different number of objects can weigh about the same.

2^nd Grade LA

Edward Tulane: Wednesday, we reviewed chapters 11-13 and filled out our settings, outfits, and name sheets. These sheets help us keep track of Edward’s journey, the outfits he gets dressed in and the names people give him. Thursday we talked about connection and point of view. We discussed how connections we have with people, places and things affect our point of view. We looked at the different point of views Edward, Nellie and Lawrence had about Lawrence bringing Edward home to Nellie. We talked about their connection and point of view of this event and the evidence we read supporting it. It was a great discussion. HOMEWORK: Read chapter 14 and finish filling out the settings sheet. On the settings sheet, the children just need to write a short sentence about an event that has happened at each setting we’ve listed.

2^nd Grade MA

Think Beyond: We ended lesson 2 and completed our think deeply this week. Our think deeply asked which measuring tool was the best one to measure the circumference of the egg. We went back and reviewed the four tools they measured the egg with. We then came up with reasons why that tool worked the best. As a class we made an outline of the think deeply. On their own, the students needed to put the outline into complete sentences using PQA form.  

3^rd Grade LA

No class: On Monday all but 3 of the students were NWEA testing. The 3 I had, played Kahoot on their Chromebooks. It was a quiz game over tall tales. Tuesday, the third graders had to switch their lunch time with first grade because of a field trip schedule, we were unable to have class.

3^rd Grade MA

The Yeti’s Pet: We have a Yeti, and this week we found out the Yeti has a pet. In class we started working on perimeter. We will be building a pen for our Yeti’s pet. We measured out the pen we read about in a story; however it won’t fit in the area we have. Next week we will figure out how to build a pen with the same perimeter but different area.

4^th Grade LA

BIO SUMMARY: The biography summaries were due THIS WEEK!!! There are still a couple who have yet to turn it in. I will send out an email if your child is falling behind. With this project, each step builds on the next, it is very important to follow the timeline. Our next ‘big step’ is a list of 10 major events and dates about the students change maker. This will due December 19^th. As all the students have been told, they may come into my class during their lunch recess to work on their project.

4^th Grade MA

3-D Shapes: NWEA testing has mixed up our schedule a bit, but after this week we will be back on track. Wednesday, half the class finished their think deeply, while the other half played triple play and reviewed their polygon knowledge. Thursday, we started our lesson on 3-D shapes. We started the lesson with a list to compare the difference between 2-D and 3-D shapes. Flat and ‘poofy’ were examples given. Needless to say, our vocabulary will be growing immensely with this lesson, 14 new words and ‘poofy’ is NOT one of them. We then went on to the understanding of a polyhedron, a three-dimensional shape whose faces are polygons. We also discussed non-polyhedron shapes such as cones, spheres and cylinders. We ended the class sharing examples of these shapes we’ve found around the room.

Happy December!!

Happy December!!

I hope all my students who participated in the Lion King Jr. Musical had an amazing time!!

1st Grade LA

That’s your OPINION:  On Monday, I introduced the terms: opinion, convince and persuade. I asked the students “should all first graders learn to speak Pig Latin”? They were given a few moments to decide their opinion and think of a reason they felt that way. We then discussed that someone’s opinion, same or different, is not right or wrong; we are allowed to have different opinions. This will lead to us to write a persuasive paragraph together. A majority of the class felt first graders should learn Pig Latin. We will write our persuasive paragraph to convince or persuade others to feel the same way.

For fun, the kids drew a picture of their favorite activity (their opinion), then wrote a sentence on how they may convince someone to enjoy it as well.

1st Grade MA

Groups of 50: Our last lesson compared the weight of 2 items; we are now comparing the weight of 3 items in our new lesson we started. In this lesson we have a few new vocabulary words, heaviest, lightest and transitivity. These first graders knocked it out of the park understanding the concept of transitivity, so proud of them!!! Each student then counted out 50 items to place in a bag for our centers. We discussed counting and grouping the 50 items by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to help prevent miscounting before putting the items in our bags. The students were then placed in pairs with 3 different bags of 50 items, one being a bag of 50 pennies. They then had to weight the bags and decide which was the heaviest.

HOMEWORK: The students were given a half sheet stapled to a zip lock bag. Half the students are asked to bring in 1-5 of the same items that would be lighter than 50 pennies and the other half are asked to bring in 1-5 of the same items heavier than 50 pennies. Please make sure the items can fit into a zip lock bag, even if it has to be larger than the one provided.

2nd Grade LA

It’s been a long time: I haven’t had 2^nd grade LA for over a week so we did a lot of reviewing the past couple of days. We went through each chapter and reviewed the setting, what characters were involved, and the different feelings Edward had developed. Before reading the book we answered 7 questions based on the knowledge we got from the title and cover. This week we answered the same 7 questions again. We wanted to see how our answers have changed after reading half the book; we will do this one more time at the end. We will then compare our 3 sets of answers. We will discuss what information we read that caused us to change our minds. Before leaving on Thursday, we reread chapter 10 and got excited about what is coming next! HOMEWORK:  Read chapters 11-13. Please make sure your child brings their books back to school next week.

2nd Grade MA

Educated guess then measure: Last week the students estimated then measured the length and width circumference of an egg using four different tools, least accurate (centimeter cubes) to most accurate (measuring tape). The students were to estimate a length in centimeters then measure it with one of the four tools going in accuracy order.  The goal of the lesson was to estimate a length then measure. Using the measurement data they just recorded, estimate again and re-measure with the next more accurate tool. Doing this process with our four tools, the students should have seen their estimates getting closer and closer to the most accurate measurement by the end. Going over everyone’s measurements, some didn’t quite understand the idea to use the data from their previous measurement when making their next estimate. We did this lesson again as a class with the circumference of a roll of tape. I made sure the students were looking at the previous measurement(s) and explaining to everyone why they choose their next estimate. This gave the class the chance to decide if ones thinking was correct or not and why??
*Picture fail this week. I am sorry.*

3rd Grade LA

Grammar: Monday we reviewed verbs, nouns and pronouns. The students were then handed out two paragraphs and needed to identify the words. They also needed to draw an arrow showing what noun the pronoun was referring to. Of course these kids were rock starts!!!! Tuesday we started our Modern Legend lesson. We read “The Edmoud Fitzgerald” and will continue this next week and most likely the following week.

3rd Grade MA

Think Deeply:  This week 3^rd grade math finished our ‘In Search of the Yeti’ unit with our think deeply. On Wednesday we reviewed the Yeti lesson to refresh our memory from the holiday break. We discussed the Yeti story that told us how we found the foot print measurement, the foundation of the entire unit. We also went our vocabulary words, the measuring tools we used, who we measured and why, and if there was anything we would have done differently. On Thursday the students spent the class time writing their Think Deeply.

4th Grade LA

The students are working well on their biography projects. All of you should have received an email with the project’s due dates on them; this is to help you keep track of the project at home. I have also informed the students they are able to come into my class during their lunch recess to work on their projects. Below are the instructions for students to work on their project from any computer with internet. All of the parts to the project are shared to their google account, accessible from google.com. The next step of the project is the biography summery, DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.

Logging into your Google account from ANY computer:

1.      Go to google.com, click on the 9 point grid in the top right hand corner.

2.      Click on Google Drive

3.      Click “sign in with different account” OR “add account”

4.      Enter YOUR school email address: First letter of your first name, last name, last four digits of your student ID, @myduneland.org.

Example: jboster6789@myduneland.org

5.      Enter YOUR password: lower case ‘d’ then your whole student ID#

Example: d1234567

4th Grade MA

Think Deeply: On Wednesday we reviewed our Triple Play with shapes lesson. As a class we read over our think deeply and discussed our ideas and questions on what we were being asked to answer. I told the students to make sure and include our math vocabulary words when writing their answer. At that time, a few (almost all) of them, asked when I was going to hang up their vocabulary words on our word wall. I told them if they were not up by Thursday, they did not have to write their think deeply. One of the students came in my room before I got there on Thursday and saw no words were up; he was quite disappointed to see them at class time!!! It was a fun afternoon…….for me. 
*Picture: Half the class (the the other half NWEA testing), obviously VERY excited seeing the word wall!!!



And, when one of your students dresses like you, hair included, you kind of need to capture it!!

Then the younger sister sees it and wants a special picture on the blog too.....

I have the BEST students ever!!!!!! Each of them make my job so fun!!!!