Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending our time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
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Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
Hi room 5 families! We are in full swing in room 5. We have been spending out time working on writing about small moments, learning about digraphs in FUNdations, figuring out solutions for comparing two quantities, reading just right books to our high school and 5th grade buddies, and comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction heroes. Read on below to see highlights from our time together and ways to support your child at home. In writers workshop we are working on telling small moments. These are narratives about a small slice of our day. We're working on adding a beginning, middle and end to our stories as well as making sure the pictures support our words. Here are two of our authors reading their finished stories to the class. Parents can support their student at home by helping them think about the beginning, middle and end in stories and sequencing events (e.g., first, next, last). We've also been spending time reading about fictional heroes. Below is Ms. Dorrance and the class during a read aloud. We've enjoyed reading about different comic characters and how they are heroes. We then compared and contrasted our knowledge of what makes an everyday hero with a fictional hero. Below is our venn diagram to display our thinking. Parents you can ask your student, "What qualities do superheroes and everyday heroes share? How are they different?" We've also picked our superpower! We thought of what qualities we have that help make our class and school community a better place. Here we are below working on a writing piece to help us reflect on our chosen super power. Parents can ask, "What does your super power mean?" "Can you give an example of when you would use your super power at school?" In math we have been grappling with figuring out how to find the difference between two quantities. Some students have found that making each group equal by using addition or subtraction, helps them to understand the problem. It's important that we let students grapple with what the problem is asking them to find rather than showing them an algorithm of short cut to find the answer. In doing so students are able to understand their own thinking process and use addition and subtraction appropriately. In math we have also been practicing addition numbers and comparing numbers through games to strengthen quantity recognition and addition skills. Here we are below playing Make 10 and Go 10. Parents can easily play this game at home using a regular deck of cards. It's that time of year again...FALL FESTIVAL! This year our democratic process of choosing a theme for our scarecrow lead to creating a llamacorn - half llama and half unicorn. A very big thank you to Ms. Priscilla (Eduardo's mom) and Ms. Cori (Bennett's mom) for helping us create our llamacorn. Families can buy raffle tickets to win our lovely llamacorn at the fall festival on Saturday, October 27. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Cribbs and all of our parent drivers for planning and chaperoning our trip to Victory gymnastics. In A.E. we have been working on gross motor skills and we had the chance to really try them out at the gym!
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