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!