Monday, October 31, 2011

We had WINGS, math, and did a paper about how we are doing.  We had science, guidance, reading, and writing.  Have a great Halloween!

-Sean

Our goals for today:
How do you read a circle graph?
What helps us take notes from expository texts?

Friday, October 28, 2011

We did a pictograph and took a pictograph test.  We played volleyball in PE.  We took a spelling test.  We watched movies for social studies.  We wrote our 'Line of my Life' stories then at the fall party we made paper pumpkins, unscrambled Halloween costumes, and played dodgeball in the pumpkin patch.

-Tristan (Thanks Tristan - great detail! -Miss Staudt)

Our learning goals today:
How do you read a pictograph?
What are the three branches of government?
How do you show order in your writing?

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Today we learned about pictographs in math, had IC checkout, and went to science.  After lunch we had Mrs. Zanios, worked on our Red Ribbon Week posters, and had PE.

-Tristan

Our Learning Goals for today were:
What are the parts of a pictograph?
When can we use the skill of note-taking?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Today we took a math test, did a graph, and a tally table.  We hadmusic, art, reading buddies, and social studies.  This afternoon we worked on our drug free posters.

-Tristan

** Tomorrow is picture retake day and students can wear hats or caps to school!

Our goals for today:
* What are tally marks?
* What rights do you have as a citizen?
*  Why is note-taking helpful?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Today we practiced equations in math, learned a new spelling game, and had social skills with Mrs. Davison.  We started reading our new story and are working on taking notes while we read.  Tomorrow we can wear sunglasses or boots.

-Tristan

Monday, October 25, 2011

This week is Red Ribbon Week, so the students will be doing fun things each day.  We have dress-up days planned and a poster contest that our very own student leaders will be judging!

Today the students enjoyed watching some YouTube clips of baby orangutans in preparation for our story this week titled How to Babysit an Orangutan.  They have lots of questions they hope to have answered as we read the story!

-Miss Staudt (Tristan will be writing for the rest of the week - he just forgot to give Miss Staudt his notes for today!)

Friday, October 21, 2011

Today we had our WINGS (We're Into Noticing Great Students) Kickoff in the gym, took our spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension tests, and had music.  In the afternoon, Mrs. Despenas came to teach us another guidance lesson.

-Alex

(Thanks for blogging for us this week Alex! - Miss Staudt)

Thursday, October 20, 2011

We had math, PE, and spelling.  After lunch we finished our read aloud story, practiced a bus evacuation, and learned from Mrs. Zanios.

-Alex

Our learning goals today were:
How do you write a balanced equation?
What are the differences among the groups of people who have populated the US?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

We had math (we learned equations must be balanced), IC checkout and went to the computer lab.  After lunch Mrs. Zanios taught us about features in informational books that make them easier to read.

-Alex

Our Learning Goals today were...
What is an equation?
How do the children in our story learn their lesson?

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Miss Staudt was gone to the Iowa Council for the Social Studies Conference today.  We did a math test, had reading buddies, and continued our social studies project.  In the afternoon we had art, reading, writing, and did some math problem solving.

-Alex

Our learning goals today were:
What questionds do artifacts help historians answer?
What lesson does our story teach?
What are examples of sequencing words?

Monday, October 17, 2011

We had math, PE, and science this morning.  After lunch we did a read aloud, learned our vocabulary words, did writing, and had recess.

-Alex

Our learning goals today were to answer these questions:
What are key words in word problems that tell us to estimate?
What is a fable?
Why is organization important to our writing?

Friday, October 14, 2011

We started a new project in social studies, had birthday treats for Maddie and going away treats for Serenity.  We worked on our poems and spent time in the computer lab.  At the end of the day our student leaders were announced: Tyler, Evie, and Amber (Miss Staudt is so proud of all of the students who went through the process of running for this position and excited to work with these new student leaders!)!

-Tyler

Our big goals today were to answer these questions:
What is an artifact?  How are artifacts used?
What should a published poem look like?

Thursday, October 13, 2011

We switched rooms for math, took the first half of our spelling test, and had guidance.  This afternoon we listened to Ryan Sloth talk about his book Sammy Sloth - it was fun to meet an author!

-Tyler

Today our goal was to answer these questions:
How do you estimate total prices?
What do authors do?

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

We switched classrooms for math so we could work with Mrs. Long's students on an estimation problem.  After PE we had a spelling bee - Serenity was the winner!  We spent the afternoon talking about our story and practicing picking out facts and opinions.

-Tyler

Today your student should be able to say...
I can estimate prices.
I know what historians do.
I can identify facts and opinions.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

We had IC checkout and a fire drill this morning.  After lunch we worked with Mrs. Zanios, read our story, and went to PE.  Later we did some problem solving.

-Tyler

Today's learning goals or questions we were working to answer were:
Can you use rounding to estimate the sum or difference of a problem?
What helps us find the important information in informational texts?
How do you use the problem solving strategy guess and check?

Monday, October 11, 2011

We practiced our estimation in math, had music, and played a game to practice using latitude and longitude in social studies.  This afternoon we had art and began talking about our story for this week, Fire!

-Tyler

Friday, October 7, 2011

What a fun day!  As a class we walked 50.5 kilometers on the track as part of Governor Branstad's "Start Somewhere" Walk!  We had fun walking and figuring out that in 20 minutes we walked the distance from Mason City to Clear Lake 3 times!

This afternoon we spent some time free reading, made a plan of what we would take in our covered wagon if we were back on the prairie, and made our own butter, just like pioneers!

-Miss Staudt

Thursday, October 6, 2011

We worked in groups to practice estimating by rounding in math.  After lunch we took our test for our story.  Then we wrote couplets (two lines of poetry that rhyme - Miss Staudt had fun reading the couplets!).

-Layla

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

We started the morning writing a poem.  Then we had a presentation about the tallgrass prairie - it was fun to see the animals!  In the afternoon we had Ms. K for a sub while Miss Staudt was at meetings.  She read to us and played a game to review our story for the week.

-Layla

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

We started the morning with math and then had PE.  We helped Miss Staudt label new books for the classroom library by deciding which genre they were.  We spent a lot of time reading this afternoon and used puppets to retell our story before looking at some math problem solving strategies.

-Layla

Monday, October 3, 2011

Monday was a Day D so we were out of the classroom a lot for different specials.  We checked out new books from the IC, spent some time in the computer lab, visited Mrs. Long for science, had Mrs. Zanios visit for our special reading lesson, and then had PE!  Whew!

-Miss Staudt

Friday, September 30, 2011

Friday slipped by without me getting a chance to post!  We had the chance to retake our social studies tests with a group to help us increase our kind of low scores - it was a hard test!  We did our vocabulary and spelling tests and got to work on our projects in art!

-Miss Staudt