November 8, 2011

Today we did a Quick Check in math over two digit divisors in division.  In reading, we partner read The Ch'i-lin Purse.  For social studies we watched a History Bill video called hard tack and salt pork.  For lunch, we had shrimp with hush puppies and mac and cheese.  For science we did pages 78-79 in our science book.  It is a chapter review.  In gym, we had to run the mile outside.  Some people also worked on their 4-H speeches.  The contest is Thursday.  We have a field trip tomorrow to the Andrew Johnson home in Greeneville. 

September 30, 2011

Today we did a reading test, puppet biography report, math multiplcation sheet.  We worked on our animal classification posters for science.  In social studies, we went over our test questions from yesterday.

Today we partner read "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."  We went over a simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and personification.  Then we had to find examples of each in the poem.  Today we did mental math with multiplication.  We also have math homework.  We didn't do anything for English.  For lunch we had chicken and mashed potatoes and a cookie.  We had gym today also.  For science we had to pair up with somebody in our science groups and work on a plant cell paper together.  In social studies, we talked about what the purpose of the Constitution was.  And that was our day!

September 9, 2011

Today we had a math test about rounding and estimating.  In science, we talked about animal and plant cells. We even got to look through a microscope and look at pig blood.  For lunch we had turkey corn dog with curly fries, and today we had icecream day.  In social studies we acted like King George III and a colonist.  We had to tell King George why we were writing the Declaration of Independence.  In reading we read a poem in groups.  It was called "The Microscope."  Then,we had to go up in front of the class and read it outloud.  We also had art today, and we used chalk pastels. 

September 7, 2011

School pictures are tomorrow.
Midterms go home Friday.
Math test Friday.  Study guide sent home today.  Due back on Friday.

Ms. Janice, our instructional assistant, had a delicious surprise for us today!  She prepared stuffed patty-pan squash for our class to try today.  Some people really liked it, while others wouldn't try it.  The squash was grown in the garden at Rush Strong School! 

On September 17th, there will be a clean up day in the Outdoor Classroom at RSS.  After that, our class will plant some cool weather vegetables. 

September2,11

Today we had a reading test and a social studies test.We went in the outside classroom and filled up the bird feeders and we walked around.After we came back in we  pased out papers.We  went to lunch we had cheese sticks,apples,green beans and milk.We studied about our flingers on height.We went outside and played.We came back in and went to art we had to draw a landscape and went back over our drawing in GLUE who would think of glue.So today was fantastic.

September 1, 2011

Third time is a charm...is that how the saying goes?  Today was the third day we collected data for our flingers experiment.  I think we finally got it!!  We had to make a t chart and we put height, length, and the setting the flipper was set to.  We went to lunch and had steak an gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls and jello.  After lunch we did social studies. We learned about climographs.  Then we went outside.  We came back in and went to gym.  We played capture the noodle.  We lost, but we had fun. Then we came back in and got our backpacks. Then we got to go home.   I know school is not so fun, but today was.

August 30, 2011

Today we did partner reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins and we ansered questions about it.We also have homework in math and learned about rounding whole numbers.  In science, we did better on our flippers, but we did not get data collected so we're doing it tomorrow.  Also we have two work sheets on SS. We get behind in that subject.  We will have a test on Chapter 1 in SS on Friday.  Today we did a better job in class.

August 29, 2011

Oh my goodness!  The math homework was way harder than what we worked on in class today.  I told the kids who asked about it to just NOT do it!!  Good grief!  We'll pick up again tomorrow.  Mental math...gotta love it!  We had a war in English over dependent and independent clauses.  We made a new science contraption today.  It's like a catapult.  We tried seeing how high we could launch an aluminum foil ball, but we were too loud and had to go back to our seats :( We'll do better tomorrow.  In social studies, we are studying the three regions of Tennessee.  After listening to Island of the Blue Dolphins, Mrs. Wilson passed around the comprehension beach ball.  Some of the favorite parts of the story were:  When Karana built the wall out of bones and when she killed the wild dogs. 

August 25, 2011

In social studies, we learned how people change the land.  In reading we worked on cause and effect.  In math, we worked on decimal place value.  We had to put decimal numbers in word form, standard form, and expanded form.  In gym, we had to see how many push ups we could do and played octopus tag. 

August 24, 2011

today we had music.some people had band so we had to wait to do math.we learned about regions.also about subjects and predicates.in science we did a graph about are pendulums.for homework we have social studies,math,and science.

August 23, 2011

We are reading tall tales in class this week.  Also took a boring test in the computer lab, two in fact.  At least those are over!  In gym, we did sit-ups and ran five laps around the gym. We changed the length of the string on our pendulum in science.  We found that lengths longer than 38 cm had fewer swings than lengths shorter than 38 cm.  Mrs. Wilson thinks we finally have place value down! 

August 22, 2011

We tested variables in science today. We've been working with a pendulum system we made. Today we tried changing the mass and angle of start. We built 2 new pendulums today to test varying string length tomorrow. In math, we looked for patterns in a decimal chart. We are reading a tall tale this week and will even be writing a tall tale later in the week.

August 15

Today we listined to Frindle,we learned 4 kinds of sentences.We found a picture in a magazine and wrote 4 sentences about it.  After that we did science safety.Then we went to library.It was pretty fun!We walked through chapter one for social studies.

August 12, 2011

today we had art.we were doing a project and we had to draw crazy hair.in math we were writing numbers bigger than one million.in writing we had to write a story about a penpal sent us a suprise present and it was a penguin!we also read the rush stong handbook.

First day of school!

Today is the first day of school!  We have had fun discovering our learning styles and brain dominance as well as getting to know one another a little better.  It's going to be a great year!