We love Balance and Motion!

We did science and we did math. (Keaira)
Today we had science centers and we got to share our stories about the circus. (Mattie)
When we did phonics and word block our two words were home and made. (Jamey)
Yesterday we got to do our very first science station and everybody at least got to finish their thing. (Jordan)
We had P.E. and we played soccer. (Genesis)
We had writing and we got to share our stories and we played "guess my picture." (Daniel)
At lunch Charlie brought Jackson! (Caroline)
In science stations the people who were in SSR had a lot of fun and learned that if we didn't have gravity we would floating up in the air right now! (David)
I got to show my two pence coin and it has Queen Elizabeth on it. (Jane)
For our morning work we measured stuff. (Adam)
In science stations I got to go the spinning tops and my favorite one was the laser top. (Paisley)
Mrs. Ziegler didn't know that some of the tops could draw. (Xander)
We are learning about fractions and we read a book about them. (Rosalie)
Yesterday in science stations our group looked at one book all together! (Zach)
In writing today we had our pictures up on the wall and the class had to guess which one we wrote about by listening to our elaboration. (Wodajo)
Today in math we played a game that helped us practice fractions. (Izzy)
Keaira used so much elaboration that we could guess her picture after just one sentence. (Paisley)

Question for Students:
(five cents in class cash to anyone who answers this tonight!)

How is balance and motion used in the circus?

Tuesday, April 27th

Anne played her guitar today! (Jamey)
In phonics and word block we chanted "next" and "fast". (Murphy)
This morning we didn't have enough time to finish our math lesson before specials because we were talking too much during morning meeting so we had to finish during snack. (Caroline)
We are learning about 1/2, 1/4, and 1/3. (Keaira)
We learned about fractions in math. (Izzy)
In recess some people in our class got to sign Adam's cast. (Paisley)
Today for our specials we went to library. (Jane)
We had science and we are going to start something that each person will need to bring a toy for. (Zach)
After school today some people have the science club. (Xander)
Today in writing we finished our circus stories. (Jordan)
At writing we wrote about the circus and we have pictures of the circus and tomorrow we have to share what we wrote and match stories to the pictures. (Wodajo)
Today we had guided reading. (Rosalie)
Other people who finished their circus stories before Tuesday got to do another one just for fun! (Zach)
This morning we shared where all of our Flat Stanley's went. (Caroline)
We are not allowed to bring an electronic toy tomorrow. (Paisley)

Balance and Motion

We have been very busy these past couple of days and our big things for this week are balance and motion! (Zach)
We did science. (Keaira)
In computers today we typed our poems.(George)
When we were studying about balancing we studies the circus too! (Jamey)
In math we learned how to do some double digit subtraction. (Adam)
Yesterday we got to go outside and balance stuff on our hands while we walked on the balance beams. (Jordan)
We had a mystery guest today and it was Julia's mom who came to read us a book. (Jane)
Mattie is our star student. (Anne)
When Mrs. Ziegler said to clean up the fire alarm went off and that means to NOT clean up but go outside! (Xander)
When Mattie was our star student she showed us her rock collection. (Caroline)
When we learned about balance we learned that balancing with a longer pole is easier. (Wodajo)
The two book Mrs. Peral read were "You see the Circus, I see.." and "Are Tree's Alive?". (Izzy)
In phonics and word block we learned the words BECAUSE and EACH. (Murphy)
For shared reading we read an article called The Circus and played E.R.T. (Rosalie)
E.R.T. is when you read something in front of you and you have highlight the answers to questions. (Jordan)

The Final Performance!

Whew....we finally finished the musical! We have worked so hard for the past two weeks and last night was the final performance. Today, we had a compliment party to help celebrate all of our hard work. We are excited about getting back on track next week and will try very hard to begin blogging more!

Today we had pizza and watched The Magic School Bus Get's Swamped. (Murphy)
Today in phonics and word block we got to do our spelling test. (Jordan)
We had a substitute in music and we played a game. (Genesis)
We played Farmer and the Dell in music (Jamey)
We had learning stations today and I went to the overhead and poetry stations. (Jane)
We read a book called Owen and Mzee and it was about a hippo and a tortoise who have become best friends. (Anne and Wodajo)
It was almost like we had two snacks today! (Paisley)
We finally finished our handwriting book! (Xander)
We had an extra long recess today. (Rosalie)
We learned the word "Elaboration". (Izzy)
We wrote a paragraph about a picture, we were in four groups and we had to tell something about our pictures using ELABORATION! (Jordan)
We made cards for David. (Wodajo)
Anne, Murphy, George, Keaira, and I had a picture of a Dinosaur and an alligator that were versing each other and our five details were "dinosaur", "alligator", "bird", "land", and "sky". (Zach)
Since David was sick we got him a dog that we all got to sign our names on and Mrs. Herman got him a little stuffed frog. (Rosalie and Izzy)

Pollywoggle Doogle!

Wodajo's mom was our mystery guest today and she read Wizzle and Ugh. (Paisley)
We started new science centers where we are studying rocks and we're measuring rocks and estimating the weight. (Caroline)
We are practicing our songs for play. (Daniel)
I am the star student of the week. (Jordan)
Mrs. Crocker decided that we needed to practice our songs more. (Jane)
When we did science Mrs. Ziegler got glue all over her fingers while she was trying to unclog the spout. (Julia)
We went to the library to check out new books. (Rosalie)
We only have 7 more days until the musical. (Jamey)
We practiced our play twice today. (Izzy)
A couple of people had to go the lobby to have our pictures taken for the science club. (Xander)
In science everyone had enough time to write in their science journal! (Paisley)
We had snack. (George)
In math we were talking about hard numbers and figuring out how to add them together. (Murphy)
Today's estimation was very hard but Murphy got it right on the dot! (Rosalie)
Eight people were in range with the estimation jar. (Paisley)