Lessons & Assignments Wednesday, May 11th

Language Arts - read passage, read AR book - We completed our DOL, spelling, and grammar page in class today.  We also reread our selection story.  Mrs. Pratt's small groups worked on grammar review skills, and my groups worked on our leveled readers.  This week's leveled reader was a play, and the kids did a great job reading their parts.  Friday is the last day to take AR quizzes, so reading an AR book is homework tonight.  Please complete and sign the form tonight.  We will fill in the quiz score tomorrow morning.

Math - None - We combined several skills today when we learned about relating shapes to fractions and area.

Science - None - We read about distance and speed today.  We had a fun time testing both of these concepts out in the hallway today.

Social Studies - None - We did not have social studies today due to the early dismissal.

Lessons & Assignments Tuesday, May 10th

Language Arts - read passage - We completed our DOL, grammar, and spelling pages in class today.  We read our weekly story, and practiced on Spelling City.  Today students had to use the 30 Hands app to demonstrate their spelling words.

Math - None - We learned about how to classify plane figures today.

Science - None - We had Ag in the Classroom today where we learned about cows, and had a chance to make butter!

Social Studies - None - We read a Scholastic News article today.

Reminder - Early dismissal tomorrow

Lessons & Assignments Monday, May 9th

Language Arts-  read passage, grammar review 8 - We completed our DOL and grammar page in class today.  The students also had some time to review spelling words on the Spelling City app.  We reread our weekly story, then finished up a compare and contrast activity from last week.  The students had to compare and contrast the story we are reading to the video we watched on Friday.

Math - None - We learned about triangles today, and how to classify them based on their number of equal sides and the measure of their angles.

Science - None - We read about types of motion today, then went outside to try them out!

Social Studies - None - We finished watching our field trip presentation videos today.

Force & Motion

We started our final chapter on force and motion today in science.  We read about different types of motions (back & forth, zig-zag, straight line, fast motion, slow motion), then headed outside to try them out!  The students had to work with a partner to demonstrate a motion while their partners recorded it on the iPads.  We came back inside to show our videos and explain the motions we demonstrated.

Triangles

We learned all about triangles today!  Although the students are already familiar with triangles, today we learned that they can be classified by the number of equal sides, and the measure of their angles.  To practice this idea, we used spaghetti noodles and marshmallows to build triangles.  We discovered that if 2 noodles were shorter than the 3rd noodle, we couldn't make a triangle.

Red Carpet Reader

Congratulations to Josiah for meeting his 4th quarter AR goal!

Lessons & Assignments Friday, May 6th

Language Arts - None - We completed our DOL and spelling page in class today.  We also watched a movie clip of the old TV show, Ramona.  Next week the kids will compare and contrast Ramona in our story, and Ramona in the movie.

Math - None - We practiced drawing quadrilaterals today.  We had to review a bit from yesterday's lesson, and took some notes on types of quadrilaterals to help us remember their properties.

Science - None - We used our science time for math review today.

Social Studies - None - We continued watching our field trip presentations today.