Written by Liam, Sophie, and Nick :)

This week was a blast! In Math we finished up our Measurement Unit. We learned about capacity, mass, and weight. We have our last Math test of the year on Monday. Our read aloud is still "The One and Only Ivan". It is very exciting and we love it! In Science we are learning all about Electricity. We learned about different circuits and practiced making them. We also learned how to make wiring diagrams just like Electricians! We had an awesome field trip to General Electric yesterday! We got to meet and work with Engineers to make our very own wind turbines! We tested them out using a fan. We also got to see a piece to a real wind turbine. It was huge!!!We really enjoyed our visit and learned a lot. Today in Music we are having our last sharing day. We can't wait! It was a really good week and we can't wait for next week!

This week in Math we began our Measurement Unit. We learned the customary and metric units of capacity. We had fun making "Measurement Monsters" to help us understand how many cups are in a pint, how many pints are in a quart and how many quarts are in a gallon. We started our Electricity Unit in Science. We completed a KWL and used a battery and copper wire to try to get a light bulb to light. We learned that you need to have a closed circuit in order for the bulb to light. It was really fun experimenting! We have been continuing working on our Persuasive writing pieces and practicing cursive. We are getting excited for our field trip next week to G.E.! We are also looking forward to some fun events in June!

Written by Audrey, Charlie and Connor :)

This week was phenomenal! In Math, we finished our geometry unit and took our unit test today. We learned all about polygons, quadrilaterals and angles (obtuse, acute, right). In Social Studies we each picked a country we were interested in and wanted to learn more about. We completed a research packet and introduction for our travel brochures that we will be making. Research and information about the project will be coming home next week. We are so excited for the Cultural Fair in June! Yay! We finished lowercase cursive letters and are learning the uppercase letters now. We also continued working on persuasive speeches. We started a new read aloud called "The One and Only Ivan". We really like it so far! We look forward to Memorial Day weekend and three days off. Adios for now!

Written by Angie, Zack, Charlotte C., Jack F.

We can't believe it is May already! The year is going by so quick! We had a busy week due to the Math State Tests. We worked hard on the tests Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. They took up the majority of our mornings, so Miss Saburro gave us some treats and free time afterwards. We didn't think it was too hard! We started to present our Solar System projects. A lot of people made games, so we enjoyed learning and playing the games this week. We played Mars Jeopardy, Uranusopoly, Neptune Trivia, and Race Through Space. There will be more presentations next week. We are really enjoying sharing our projects! They are on display in the hallway near our classroom if you want to come look at them.

Written by Ruby, Caleb, and Charlotte C. :)

This week in Math we finished our fraction unit and began our time unit. We practiced telling time to the hour, half hour and minute and learned how to tell time to the quarter hour. Since our state test is coming up next week, we have also been reviewing past units. We worked on some practice tests so we would be comfortable with the format. We had another awesome science presentation about Solar Power. We went to 4 different stations that taught us how to use solar energy to do different things, like make light from a flashlight move solar powered toys. It was a lot of fun! In Reading we finished "Everything for a Dog". We thought some parts were sad, but it had a very happy ending. We were very surprised how the story turned out. We loved it! We did a lot of journal writing this week. We wrote about our spring vacations and shared our stories with the class. We will be beginning our persuasive unit next week. We had a Junior Achievement lesson this week, taught by Mrs. Higgs. It was our third one. We learned about the different ways to pay for things and we played a fun game to practice using money. We are happy the weather is starting to feel like spring! We have been enjoying the sunshine at recess.

Written by Julia and Jack N. :)

We had an exhausting week...TGIF! We worked really hard and tried our best on the ELA State Test. We thought it was tiring and we are happy we finished. In Math we continued learning about Fractions. We learned how to find fractions on a number line and compare fractions using fraction strips and number lines. We started our planet research in Science and can't wait to start our projects! We began to read the sequel to "A Dog's Life". It is called "Everything for a Dog". We are really enjoying it so far! We shared our Informational books with our classmates and we can't wait to share them with you at our breakfast next Thursday at 9:30. We hope you can come! We are also looking forward to the author visit next week.

Written by Charlotte H. and Angie :)

This week we had our last guidance lesson about Pumsy. We got to play Jeopardy. It was really fun! We started to learn about the Solar System in Science. We completed an activity to order the planets starting closet to the sun. We learned an acronym to remember the order...My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Excellent (Earth) Mother (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Served (Saturn) Us (Uranus) Nachos (Neptune). We also started to learn about each planet. So far, we learned about the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth. In Writing, we are working on our final drafts of our chapter books. They are starting to look awesome and we can't wait to share them with you. When they are finished we will have a breakfast to share them. We learned about fractions on a number line in Math. In Reading, we continued to practice making inferences. We are almost finished with "A Dog's Life". It is so good that we don't want it to end! We learned 5 more cursive letters. We also did a little spring cleaning in our classroom. We can't wait till the weather actually feels like spring!

Written by Sophie, Nick and Liam :)

This week was outstanding! In Math we continued our Fraction Unit. This week we learned about fractions and sets. We did two fun activities, one using our name and one using M+M's. Each activity practiced finding fractions of a set. The best part was eating the M+M's when we finished! We have our first group of "Mad Minute Stars" who have colored each scoop of their Mad Minute cones up to 10. They will get to have lunch and ice cream with Miss Saburro. The rest of us are working hard to get up to our 10's. In Reading we began to learn about making inferences. We began the unit by looking at a picture of the inside of a house and had to use clues in the picture to make inferences about the family who lived there. We had to back up our inferences with reasons. In Writing we finished our chapters for our Informational pieces. We conferenced with Miss Saburro and are going to begin revising and editing next week. In Social Studies we made maps of China. We used yarn to show the rivers, glitter for the desserts, fettuccine for the Great Wall and chocolate chips for the mountain ranges. Our maps came out awesome! We also got to watch "Big Bird in China". It taught us more about China living and showed us the geography of China. We can't wait to learn more fun stuff next week in Miss Saburro's class!

Written by Connor and Charlie :)

This week was a blast! We finished our Division unit this week in Math and had our test. We started to learn about Fractions. We learned fraction terms, such as halves, thirds, fourths,etc. and how to identify the numerator and denominator. In Reading, we started the week by celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday. We read "Oh, the Places You'll Go" and completed an activity about our short term and long term goals in life. We also continued to read "A Dog's Life". In Writing we continued to work on our Informational pieces. We used books and the internet to research more facts on our topics. In Social Studies we continued learning about China. We learned how to count to ten and write numbers. We also learned about the animals that live in China. We read all about the Giant Panda. One thing we learned is that they eat about 40 pounds of bamboo each day! We also learned to play a new vocabulary game in Stations called "Outburst". It is a lot of fun! Until next week...Adios!

Written by the whole class :)

It was nice to be back to school after our winter break. This week was rockin'! Since we had a snow day on Valentine's Day we celebrated on Monday. We really enjoyed passing out our Valentine's and reading the ones we received. In Writing, we have been continuing working on our informational pieces. We have been writing many chapters to go in our books. We are still enjoying listening to "A Dog's Life". It is a great story about a stray dog named Squirrel who is learning how to get through life in the wild. We are continuing to learn about China in Social Studies. We loved painting Chinese symbols with watercolors and reading China stories with a buddy. In Math we finished our Division Unit. We will be taking our test on Monday. We learned a few more letters in cursive and enjoyed another Guidance lesson about Pumsy.It was a great week!

We can't believe February is here! This week was a short one, due to the half day and snow day. We continued working on division and had our first division test on Thursday. We worked on a lot of word problems and determined what operation we needed to use to solve them. We started a new chapter book in reading called, "A Dog's Life". In Writing, we continued working on our informational pieces. We tried writing a new chapter using one of the text structures we learned about last week. We had a lot of fun finishing up our Australian Animal posters and teaching the class all about our animals! They are hanging outside of our room, so if you are in the building come check them out! We finished our Australia unit and started learning about China this week. We also learned some new letters in cursive!

Written by Charlie and Audrey :)

This week was superb! In Writing we learned 4 strategies to use in our informational pieces. They are boxes and bullets, pros and cons, compare and contrast, and cause and effect relationships. On Tuesday we attended a special science presentation about energy by Tumalow Energy. We learned that a snickers bar has more energy than dynamite! On Wednesday we went to the Star Lab and learned about the winter constellations. We found Orion, Taurus, Canis Major, and Sirius, which is the brightest start in the sky and part of Canis Major. In Social Studies we organized our Australian Animal notes into good paragraphs to include on our future posters. In Reading, we focused on Informational genre by reading Time for Kids articles and identifying different parts of informational text. We continued learning division in math and practiced the strategies we learned to find the quotient. We were excited that the temperatures got better and we got to go outside for recess again! Wooohooo!!!

Written by Julia :)

This week in Math we continued learning division strategies. We learned how to divide a number into equal groups and use repeated subtraction to find the quotient. In Reading we focused on reading informational texts and articles to learn more about the characteristics of informational non-fiction. In Writing we continued our informational unit. We organized our ideas into the chapters we chose for our book. We also began writing one of our chapters. In Social Studies we finished up researching our Australian animals. We took all of our notes and organized them into sections about our animals, which included, description, habitat, diet, and other fun facts. Miss Hunter visited our class again this week and read us another chapter of "Pumsy". We reviewed "clear minds" and "mud minds" and learned all about "I messages". "I messages" tell someone how you are feeling in a certain situation. Today we got to watch the 4th grade choir and 5th grade band perform their concert. It was a lot of fun!

Written by Connor and Angie :)

This week in Math we began division! We learned that division is related to multiplication and if you look at the division sentence backwards, you will see the multiplication! We also learned how to make groups to solve a division problem. In Reading we finished up our compare and contrast unit. We read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and compared and contrasted it to "The Three Snow Bears". We also read a book and article about Martin Luther King Jr. Miss Hunter, our guidance counselor came in and read us a book called "Pumsy". We learned the difference between our "mud minds" and our "clear minds" by doing an experiment with water and food coloring. In Writing we began our informational unit. We picked a topic and wrote a fast draft of everything we knew about our topic. Then, we began to make a Table of Contents of chapters we want to include in our informational books that we are going to write. In Social Studies we started researching our Australian Animals. It is so much fun learning cool facts about them! We had an awesome week!

Written by Jack N. :)

We had an awesome first week back at school after our vacation! In Math we reviewed Multiplication and practiced story problems. We practiced the steps to solve each problem by underlining the question, circling the important information, showing our work, and labeling our answers. Today we had our unit test on Multiplication. In Reading we continued to practice comparing and contrasting. We used a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Dolphins and Porpoises and Frogs and Toads after reading articles. In Writing we started our informational writing unit. We picked a topic and used our five fingers as an organizer to teach our classmates about our topic. We tried to talk like experts and tell them everything we knew! In Social Studies we read about our Australian animals and began to write down some facts from our books. We really loved starting "Just Dance" in P.E. class. We each had a team and had to dance to get points for our team. It was so much fun!