Saturday, January 26, 2013

This Week In KC

Dylan is the special person this week!

We sang at the All School Assembly this week! 

Reading Workshop
We made an Anchor chart of What Good Readers Do In KC



How To Stories
We are finishing our Writing Workshop Unit of Study on Procedural writing. The students are picking one HOW TO story to publish. 
Grace Lin 
We loved having Grace Lin in our class this week! Ask your child about her presentation! 


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Science Investigation This Week
Exploring Surface Tension 

 How many drops of water can you put on a penny?

What were we trying to do with the cup of water and pennies?

 What happened when we put a drop of soap in the middle of the milk and food coloring?

Problem Solving in Math
We played a fun game with the Rekenrek called Quick Images!   
We will be collecting BOX TOPS!! Your child brought home a sheet that you can put the BOX TOPS  on (you could always send them in a baggie).  We hope to collect at least 100 BOX TOPS before the 100 day! Hadley brought in a bag full of BOX TOPS on Friday. We plan on counting them next week! 

Saturday, January 19, 2013

This Week In KC


Measurement in Math







The Queen of Ten Came for a Visit
 We solved some Snowman problems


We used the following math tools to solve some of the story problems


We learned a new math game called NUMBER SQUEEZE

 The Bubble Lady came Ms. Stella
We had a great time exploring bubbles!


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Friday, January 18, 2013

A...is for Abby


We had Patriots Day in KC!!!








Fun in the Snow!!




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On our snowy day this week We made some snowpeople! We went back to class and wrote a How To Make a Snowman story. We read the book the READER. Ask your child what happened in the book?

Saturday, January 12, 2013

This Week in KC

Go Pats!
 We finished our math unit focusing on Patterns. At the beginning of the week we worked on Pattern Books and Pattern Story Problems. We started a new math unit focusing on Measurement.




Science
This week we started our Water Unit Investigations. We made a Thinking Map of What We know About Water.



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Lily is The Special Person This Week!



Writing Workshop
For the last few weeks we have been learning about procedural text.
Procedural texts tell the reader how to make something, do somethings, complete a process, or accomplish any task that requires several steps. Students worked with a partner to create procedural posters on What to do at Dsmissal Time! The kids loved sharing with the class. On a different day this week we started writing "How-To's".








Some of the kids shared on a Voice Thread


The Kid On the Block Puppet Show 
We had a special puppet show on Friday.  This show focused on teaching children about accepting differences. Gabe's mom was one of the puppeteers!!!