As I try to catch up to this blog I will just add captions to all the photographs I found!! Hopefully they will give a good overview of what we've done this past month!
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| We studied fact and opinion. We used our learning about butterflies to write our own fact and opinion statements. |
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| Cutting out of ads to practice estimating and adding money. |
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| Area robots. The kids created robot and calculated the area of each body part and the total area of their robot. |
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| Each student chose a famous American to research and write a biography about. Our 5th grade buddies came down to listen to the biography reports. |
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| Lots of SSR. We're becoming GREAT readers!! |
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| For St. Patrick's day the students did Lucky Charms graphs. |
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| One of our favorite things, writing on desks! The kids were creating lists of words that are capitalized. |
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| Animal research! Each child took their research and wrote a nonfiction book about their animal. |
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| Character Traits. After studying character traits each child drew a picture of themselves and wrote their own character traits. |
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| Students have been using iPad during our literacy and math rotations. After they listen to a Brainpop Jr. or read a news article they write up what they learned that day. |
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| Word Sorts! These help with reading unknown words as well as spelling skills. |
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| Using computers for research |
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| Releasing our butterflies! |
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| Kids had to write a "how to" before they planted their seeds. |
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| Seed planting! |
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| Practicing cursive letters. We know all of our lowercase letters now! |
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| Cursive letter concentration |
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| Reading with Ty's grandpa |
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| Our guest reader and the class! |
