Monday, October 10, 2011

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

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

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

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

Monday, October 3, 2011

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