Another Great Week!

Our schedule was a little bit different today but we got everything done that we needed to. (Connor)
Today we got our first letter from our Pen Pals. (Hampton)
We have time to do a blog today! (Marie)
Today in art we painted our pictures. (Michael)
On Monday we are going to write back to our pen pals. (Dallia)
It is the 55th day of school. (Calloway)
Chase was our first star student of the week. (John)
We had to pack up early today so we could get everything done without having to rush. (Helen)We started a new math sheet as part of our daily morning work. (Ford)
Today for the estimation jar we had a jar full of nerds and Preston let each of us have a box. (Preston)
We talked about Pilgrims this week. (Chase)
We did geo-board shapes in math stations. (Jayden)
We started meeting with our math buddies from fifth grade last week.(Virginia)
For math stations we did geo-puzzles. (Ella)
Today we finished our pilgrim boy and girl puppets that we used for shared reading. (Caroline)
Today in math stations some people finished their pilgrim math. (Michael)
We also played shape concentration in math. (Helen)
The third, fourth, and fifth graders had career day today. (Emily)
We finally learned the poem about Uncle Ugbee. (bus riders)
We took a spelling test. (bus riders)
Our schedule was really busy but it looks like it was short. (Helen)
We finished our W.W.W. books for the week!(Ella)

Testing Week!

"We went to the book fair." - Connor
"We did our writing test and our math test." - Jacob
"In computer we played subtraction action." - Hampton
"We finished our math test in one day today!" - Virginia
"This is our first time blogging in eight school days." - Dallia
"Today we had computer for our special." - Helen
"I got a book for my dad at the book fair!" - Ella
"We had snack at the end of the day today." -Marie
"In computer we got to print." - Grace
"In computer lab we got to go on Kid Pix." - Chase
"We got a new a student last week and his name is Chase!" - Virginia
"We went to our learning stations today." - Jayden
"One of our acorn seeds started sprouting." - Patrick
"I got the tooth journal two times in a row!" - Will
"We got to move the estimation jar to a higher number." - Preston
"We still haven't done the song about Uncle Ugbee." - Emily
"Our Fitness Field Day is tomorrow and today's estimation jar was full of pennies!" - Helen
"Calloway can only wear one tennis shoe because she broke her ankle when we went to the apple orchard." - Grace
"We had inside recess two days in a row." - Hampton

Our first blog in 14 days!

"We learned how to subtract with our brains." -Jacob
"This is our first time blogging in fourteen days." - John
"We are keeping two larva's as class pets so that we can see what happens to them." - Patrick
"We went to music today and we played instruments." - Dallia and Michael
"Luke brought in the estimation jar today. " -Virginia
"I think the two larva's are actually baby grubs." -Hampton
"We only have one more person for star student." -Helen
"We tried to out-sing Mrs. Matyi's class with the Noun Song and we think we won!" -Emily
"Marie was our star student today." -Ford
"Today in writing we practiced our o's again." -Michael
"We went on a field trip last Thursday. " -Preston
"We lost a student because she moved to New Jersey." -Calloway
"We solved subtraction word problems about pumpkins." -Jayden
"Today for the estimation jar we had acorns." -Helen
"I thought there were eggs on the acorns." -Luke
"We went on the black top for recess." -Marie
"Will lost a tooth this week!" -Everybody
"We finally got our Word Wall up!" -Virginia
"We made a house for our class pets." -Dallia
"Today was Patrick's birthday." -Everyone
"There were 19 acorns in the estimation jar." -Jayden

Mr. Ziegler (Charlie) came to school today. (Virginia)
Today we went to music for our specials. (Jayden)
Today we went on the blacktop for recess. (Helen)
Tomorrow we will have stuffed animal day because we earned our first compliment party! (Emily)
We worked on our flower flip books. (Will)
We finally got to our blog this week. (Marie)
Yesterday we showed 29 cents in several different ways. (Michael)
We talked about tornado drills and then we had one! (Ford)
We cheered and chanted our word wall words but did not have time to put them in our w.w.w. books. (Virginia and Jayden)
We wrote about the events of a story in our retell glove. (Ella)
We got a new book for the overhead station. (Virginia)
Today we had math stations. (Helen)
Today is the last day of September. (Virginia)

T.G.I.F, Septeber 24, 2010

Today in writing we worked in our Retell Glove books. (Michael)
Today Jacob was the star student. (Patrick)
We had art today. (Will)
We went to math stations and I got to "organize" numbers. (Jayden)
We had our spelling test this morning. (Virginia)
Today me and Dallia went to the overhead station and we looked in a book for certain words. (Helen)
We checked our math homework this morning. (Grace)
The number in our estimation jar today was 17 and it was full of cotton balls. (Marie)
We are excited about the Auction that we will have next Friday. (Emily)
We are also really excited about the new student we will get on Monday. (Ford)

Tuesday, September 21st

We went to computers today. (Dallia)
We made a chart about living and non-living things. (Connor)
We learned about the differences of living and non living things by watching a slide show. (John)
We practiced writing two numbers in our number writing booklet. (Patrick)
We brainstormed "ap" words. (Luke)
We did science! (Annie)
For our science yesterday we went outside of the building and looked for living things and non-living things. (Helen)
Today's star student was Virginia. (Emily)
Three people have lost a tooth so far this year. (Ella)
We did phonics and word block. (Ford)
In computer we made a robot on the computer. (Michael)
Today was our first time using the ACTIVE board! (Caroline)
We played a comparing numbers game on the active board. (Preston)
This was our second day of science. (Jayden)
We went to learning stations today. (John)
We did the estimation jar for the first time. (Will)

A new addition to our class!

During our guided reading we went to learning stations. (Ford)
We played collect 20 together. (Ella)
We played the Great Wall of China for the first time in P.E. (Connor)
Yesterday and today Jayden was the Star Student. (Helen)
WE FINALLY GOT OUR ACTIVE BOARD PUT UP! (Marie)
Jayden finished being Star Student. (Caroline)
We added new words to our W.W.W. books. (Will)
The words were little, said, and of. (Will)
When we were doing our W.W.W. book the Active Board people came into the room and made a lot of noise! (Preston)
During morning meeting we figured out ways to make the number 14. (Micheal and Helen)
We read a book called Hooway for Wodney Wat. (Virginia)
I finished my Family Tree book today. (Annie)
I wrote a lot in my writing journal today. (Dallia)
We all wrote in our writing journal while the active board people were putting the board up. (Caroline)