This week’s rundown:

We have been trying out some new desk arrangements that will help us to focus our best and practice our teamwork abilities! Here we are taking the zipties off of our old groups.

 

In reading stations this week, we have really come to love reading good-fit chapter books on our level.  I have loved seeing at least three groups finishing their books.  When in small group with Ms. Beck, we don’t ONLY read…we also write in response to what we have read!  Here are a few pictures of students using their background knowledge as well as clues from the text to make inferences!

  

We are up to our gills in money right now!  We are learning how to count, compare, and add collections of money using real money, team games, computer games, and old school worksheets, checked by calculators!

 

 

We also finished out our week of Pennies for Pasta by raising over $730.00 in just our class alone!  On Friday morning, we split up the money by value and then in teams, we counted the money, reported the amounts, and then added it all up to find this week’s total.

      

We had a mystery reader on Friday!  Thanks to Mrs. Fendley for coming in and giving her teacher skills a workout by reading three fantastic books.  As you can tell, no one moved when she was reading.  We also had an awesome lesson in saving vs. spending with Ms. Adams but I completely forgot to get a picture!  Ask your child how much we learned about saving money for the future on Friday!

We have been working so hard on our “who do you admire” writing prompts over the past two weeks, and the fruit of our labors are now hanging on our classroom window!  They are five paragraph narrative essays revised and edited with peers, and published in cursive!  Come check these out when you have a chance!  More will be put up when they are complete.

For your viewing pleasure, here’s what we did in music this week!