Please consider coming to Barnes and Noble tonight for the PTO event. If you are unable to make it, you can still support Bailly by shopping online using code 12566295. Purchases made in the cafe also count. The schedule is as follows:
- 5:30 PM Snowman Scavenger Hunt
- 6:00 PM Roles Poetry Cafe
- 6:30 Stories with Mr. Zeck
- 7:00 PM Crafts
11/22- Barnes and Noble Night 4:00-8:00 PM
11/26- George's Gyro Give Back Night
11/26- George's Gyro Give Back Night
11/27-11/29- Thanksgiving Break-No School
12/5- E-Learning
LANGUAGE ARTS
We read the Disappearing Alphabet by Richard Wilbur this week. We discussed how changing just one letter completely changes a word. Students began learning about word ladders. In a word ladder you change one letter of a word at a time to create a new word. We will continue on this next week.
In math this week, students weighed the objects they brought from home against other items using a bag of 50 pennies as a benchmark. We are working on understanding the property of transitivity. We will continue this lesson after Thanksgiving break. 
LANGUAGE ARTS
We continued our lesson on A Pen Pal For Max this week. Students worked together to summarize the story. They did a great job picking out the most important details of the story. Next, we broke the story down into the parts of Freytag's pyramid. The kids were each assigned a component of the pyramid and wrote it on a strip of paper. Then, I mixed up the strips and handed them out to different students. After reading their strip they had to go stand on the model pyramid based on what story component they thought their paper represented. They seemed to really enjoy this activity. We will work on doing this with another story next week.
We continued our lesson on A Pen Pal For Max this week. Students worked together to summarize the story. They did a great job picking out the most important details of the story. Next, we broke the story down into the parts of Freytag's pyramid. The kids were each assigned a component of the pyramid and wrote it on a strip of paper. Then, I mixed up the strips and handed them out to different students. After reading their strip they had to go stand on the model pyramid based on what story component they thought their paper represented. They seemed to really enjoy this activity. We will work on doing this with another story next week.
MATH
This week students learned more about the slide, flip, and turn movements we will be using to turn shapes into a tessellation. They were each given a triangle and moved it along on a worksheet so they could visualize the movements. After Thanksgiving break students will work on creating their own tessellations.
This week students learned more about the slide, flip, and turn movements we will be using to turn shapes into a tessellation. They were each given a triangle and moved it along on a worksheet so they could visualize the movements. After Thanksgiving break students will work on creating their own tessellations.
Author Beatrix Potter was introduced to students this week. They learned how her love of animals and nature inspired her stories. They also discovered that in 1903 Beatrix designed and patented a Peter Rabbit doll. Peter is the world's oldest licensed literary character. Next week, we will be reading and analyzing some of Beatrix Potter's work, beginning with Mrs. Tiggy Winkle. If you would like to read more about Beatrix Potter please follow this link https://www.peterrabbit.com/about-beatrix-potter/.
MATH
This week was mostly a review. We did a few name game problems and just practiced using a formula to solve a problem. We will begin a new lesson after Thanksgiving break. 
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we talked about biographies and what type of information is typically included in them. We then read several biographies of famous female inventors and discussed the components. Next week, we will begin another biography and do a biography organizer.
This week we talked about biographies and what type of information is typically included in them. We then read several biographies of famous female inventors and discussed the components. Next week, we will begin another biography and do a biography organizer. MATH
This week we continued our lesson on 3-D shapes. Students worked on finding out how many vertices, edges, and faces were on several different prisms and pyramids. We then discussed certain rules that can be applied to prisms and separate rules that work on pyramids. There were some struggles comprehending all of the rules so we will spend some more time practicing and applying those next time we meet.
I hope to see some of you tonight at the Barnes and Noble event! Due to the holiday, there will not be a blog next week. Enjoy your Thanksgiving break and extra time with family!
Mrs. Marquardt
