Safetyville

We had a great time at Safetyville!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!

It's almost Thanksgiving break...

...and it's been a busy week!

We made pilgrim hats:

We made hand turkey snacks with our 5th grade buddies:

We even compared firefighters and police officers with our very first venn diagram:

Tomorrow we'll finish up the week with a field trip to Safetyville.  Have a fantastic Thanksgiving break!

Career Month Begins!

We had a great first week of career month!

Madeleine's mom came and talked to us about being a physician.

Madeleine's dad talked to us about being an entrepreneur.

Lilliana's grandpa showed us how to lay bricks.

We can't wait for more career month presentations!

The kids' weekly blog post

Here's our weekly update.  Thanks to Madeleine for the title!

We went to recess. - Pierce
We went to recess. - Leo
We got clothes for Weather Bear. - Sahib
We dressed up Weather Bear.  We went to the computer lab. We went home. - Sophie
We did our pictorial in our neighborhood. - Antonio
We did opening. We did student of the week.  We did recess. We did language arts rotations. We did a read aloud. - Ethan
We did math rotations. - Karina
We did our team task and we went to recess.  We dressed up Weather Bear and we went to lunch. - Carson
We did lunch. - Lilliana
We did opening.  We did recess.  We did math rotations.  We did blog time.  We did student of the week.  We did our neighborhood poem. - Royce
We did math rotations.  We did snack time.  We did student of the week.  We did our blog.  We did recess.  We did sharing.  We did opening.  We did a read aloud. - Jovie
We did something called you can't have your voice on. - Defne
We did our blog.  We did recess.  We did math rotations.  We did star of the week. - Matthew
We dressed up Weather Bear.  We went to recess.  We did short to tall.  We are doing our blog. - Izabella
We did this thing where you can't talk and we had to get in order from shortest to tallest and we did a math team task. - Madeleine
We did math team tasks and we dressed up Weather Bear.  We did recess.  We did lunch.  We did language arts rotations. - Cal
We did math rotations. - Kara
We presented our math team tasks. - Sam
We are going to lunch. - Henry
We presented our math team tasks and we did four of them. - Gino
Today we did recess and we did team tasks. - Ella
We did language arts rotations.  We did a read aloud.  We did math rotations.  We did opening.  We did blog.  We're going to go to lunch.  We're going to get picked up.  It's going to be time to go. - Ayden
We went to lunch. - Brielle

Sample Q Bear Blog Post

Soon everyone will get a chance to take Q Bear home for a night.  After you take him home, you get to write a blog post about your time together.  Here's my sample:

When Q Bear and I got home, we went for a walk.  Then we relaxed on the couch.  We decided to watch a little bit of TV.

After that, Q Bear and I made dinner.  We made minestrone soup in the crock pot.  Q Bear really liked stirring the soup.

After dinner Q Bear helped me do some laundry.  He wanted to go for a swim in the washing machine, but I wouldn't let him.

After doing laundry, Q Bear and I decided to do some reading before bed.  It was very relaxing.

Finally it was time for bed.  Q Bear and I had a great day together!

Story Maps

We've been learning how to use story maps to plan when writing narratives.  Today we started our own story maps.

Royce's story map

Leanna's story map

Ethan's story map

Lilliana's story map

Gino and his story map

Later this week we will use our story maps to write our own narratives!

Hand turkeys are for all occasions!

Kids write a blog

Here is our blog update for the week.  Thanks to Leanna for the title!

We did less than and more than in math. - Anika
We switched tables.  We went down, to the side, and then up. - Sam
We learned about spiders. - Carson
We did recess. - Lilliana
We did math rotations and sharing and we went table to table and we did greater and less than. - Royce
We went from different table to different table and we dressed up weather bear.  We learned there is a spider that is bigger than the Goliath Bird Eating Spider. - Madeleine
We did math rotations. - Jovie
We did math rotations. - Antonio
We did greater than and less than with the new teacher and we got to draw on our paper. - Cal
We went to lunch and dressed up weather bear. - Pierce
We did recess and math rotations. - Leo
We did star of the week. - Leanna
We did Antonio's star of the week. - Ella
We dressed up weather bear and we did language arts rotations and we did sharing and we wrote about everything we learned about spiders. - Sophie
We did math rotations.  We went table by table. - Matthew
We played with the cubes and we went to recess and we did Antonio's student of the week and we did a read aloud about sharks and we did math rotations and language arts rotations. - Ayden
We went table to table to table and we dressed up weather bear and we did opening and we did recess and we did Antonio's special helper. - Gino
We did sharing.  We learned the biggest spider is called a bird eating spider. - Ethan
We did calendar.  We did rotations.  We dressed up weather bear.  We went to recess. We went to lunch.  We did sharing and we're doing our blog.  We did Antonio's star of the week. - Izabella
We did recess.  We played with the blocks.  We got clothes for weather bear. - Sahib
We did our blog post and we counted. - Defne
We went to recess. - Chace

Our first padlet

Last week we completed our first padlet for homework, all about spiders!  Check it out:

http://padlet.com/shausman3/f1kad4u1isgk