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!