Thursday, December 18, 2014

"Today we watched one of my movies and it was Happy Feet." -Caelen

"In math, we learned about multiples and factors. A multiple is when you skip count by a number, the numbers you say are multiples of that number. Factors are the numbers you multiply to get a product." -Brandon

"While we were watching Happy Feet, we made a Christmas craft." -Haylie

"At recess, I had girl drama!" -Caydence

"Instead of doing reading, Mrs. Byrd let us watch a movie and color and read!" -Erin

"I got three Dum Dums because I brought in a pack of cards for choice bins." -Savahna

"I didn't go to Mrs. Frase today because we were watching a movie." -Analese

"In PE, we played a game and there was one Santa and everyone else was reindeer and you were trying to get all of the reindeer into a pen by tagging them." -Eli


Tuesday, December 16, 2014

"We got to see the 5th graders and their Colonial Night and my brother was a miller." -Haylie

"Today at four square I got to be king." -Savahna

"In PE, we played muscle tag and if you got tagged in your biceps, triceps, or your deltoid in the first round, you had to do push ups or sit ups." -Erin

"Today Mrs. Byrd lost her bracelet and we think she lost it during the Colonial Night." -Keilani

"At lunch recess, I played soccer and my team won 5-0!" - Ethan

"We had a fun Christmas craft and when we were done with it we got to do an activity sheet where we got to find pictures. Then we got an activity packet and I finished the first one and I'm starting coloring it." -Liz

"At recess, I cherry bombed Grayson, Caelen, Addison, and Savahna and they kept on doing it back to me, but I would always catch it!" -Analese

"A bunch of us started a business making fake hair extensions and fortune tellers and a lot of other things and we sell them for tickets and we split it with the workers at the end of the week." -Caydence

Thursday, December 11, 2014

"It's raining really hard outside and we had to have indoor recess." -Eli

"My friend, GG, didn't go to our basketball game because she hurt her knee and today she came to school with crutches and a knee brace because she has an extra bone in her knee and at PE something happened with it." -Liz

"Today Radical Rick came and he did all these experiments and my favorite was when he made bubbles with dry ice and put them on people's heads." -Haylie

"I got to go up and Radical Rick made me taste this stuff and it tastes like the toothpaste the dentist puts in your mouth. And then he dumped this stuff on my head and it felt cold and then he put bubbles on my head and it felt itchy." -Analese





"In PE, we did stations and my favorite one was pull ups." -Caydence

"At recess, on the bars, I tried my special trick that I made up! I didn't do it correctly so I smacked my leg so hard on it that I had to go to the nurse's office!" -Lilith

"We had inside recess and what me and Savahna did was draw a picture of a kid tied up and in a cage over lava and it was really funny!" -Keilani

"We took an SRI test, and mine went up! After the test, we got to play math games." -Erin

"At recess, I got to be first square in four square." -Savahna

"In math, we got to do partners and I got partnered up with Caydence." -Caelen

"During PE, Mr. Valentine came and got me and I listened to Radical Rick read The Little Engine that Could and Mr. Valentine said that it will be on TV!" -Lila

Homework:
HW packet due tomorrow
Spelling and WOD tests tomorrow

REMEMBER TO WEAR HOLIDAY GEAR TOMORROW FOR OUR SPIRIT ASSEMBLY!

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

"Today I started the Harry Potter series!" -Cole

"Today at recess I got to play four square and the teacher told me that I can't take the ball away even though it's mine." -Keilani

"A group of us went to Mrs. Hartwig (my mom) and started to learn about what we could do in Math is Cool." -Lila

"In PE we did stations and my group was Katie, Caydence, Kayla, and me and we didn't get to climb on the rock wall." -Erin

"At Mrs. Hartwig's class, we did something called Pico Fermi Nada and we did a College Bowl and they were both really fun. They made math fun!" -Liz

"At lunch, I had cold lunch." -Lilith

"At resource, I finished my power writing. We're writing about our favorite restaurant and I wrote about Panda Express and it really made me want to eat there!" -Analese

"At recess, I played zombie with a group of people. It's basically tag and the last one standing wins." -Eli

"Today I got to help Mrs. Byrd A LOT by going to Mr. Thompson's room and by checking names off." -Caydence

"In Mrs. Thompson's class today for math, there were only 8 people and we did 8 division problems using the standard algorithm and I got a Dum Dum at the end for getting the problems right." -Ethan

Homework:
WOD yesterday: slither - to glide along the ground
WOD today: genuine - real
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get signature
Work on HW packet
TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO BRING FOOD FOR THE FOOD DRIVE!!! TRY TO BRING IN AT LEAST ONE CAN TO MEET OUR GOAL!

Friday, December 5, 2014

"In art, we drew a snow land and then we white washed it and then it made it stand out." -Liz






"In math, we got into groups and did the problem set with our group and whatever strategy we had to do." -Erin

"In art, I was the only one to do a Frozen theme!" -Caydence

"At recess, I did flips on the bars and me and Caydence made up a handshake." -Haylie

"In art, when I was using my paintbrush the paint went on my forehead. And also, I was the first one done." -Caelen

"At second recess, I climbed the bars for the first time and then fell!" -Analese


Thursday, December 4, 2014

"Today at writing rotations, me and Tayah got to free type because we were already done with our final draft and we made smiley faces!" -Haylie

"At recess, I played soccer and we lost 1-0." -Erin

"When I turned in my food drive stuff, I found out that for every item of food you bring in, you'll get a ticket so I got 5 tickets!" -Caydence

"At recess we tried to play four square but it was hard because there was a bunch of snow on the ground and we couldn't see the lines." -Savahna

"Me and Savahna drew funny faces during read aloud." -Caelen

"In PE, we did stations and my group had Eden, me, Kayla, and Erin in it." -Lila

"In math, we had 4 groups around the room. One was standard algorithm for division, one was drawing dots in the place value chart, one was drawing numbers in the place value chart, and one was graduating to standard algorithm." -Liz

"In math, me, Lila, and Roman tried to divide 1,999,568 by 5 and the answer is 399,913 remainder 3." -Cole/Roman


Wednesday, December 3, 2014

"At recess, we played chase and we were chasing Tristin and we could never catch him!" -Analese

"I went to writing rotations and we started typing our final draft of our paragraph about extreme sports." -Haylie

"Me and Tristin finished both of the word searches from Library." -Cole

"We had kinderbuddies! I had to share with Eden because my kinderbuddy was sick. We made elves!" -Savahna

"In writing rotations, I finished my power writing and Mrs. Byrd said mine was perfect!" -Erin

"At read-aloud, me, Caydence, and Savahna all did Funny Faces." -Caelen

"Today I went to Mrs. Gil's because we had writing rotations and we had to solve stuff that I can't remember." -Keilani

"We had kinderbuddies and my kinderbuddy wasn't there so I had to share with Haylie." -Caydence

"When I went into the kindergarten classroom, Katie's kinderbuddy started grabbing pencils and putting them down my sweatshirt." -Tristin

"I had to tell her to stop!" -Katie

"My kinderbuddy went up at the end when we were leaving went up to Tristin and wouldn't let go because she's Tristin's cousin. And she keeps hugging me!" -Liz

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

"Today we had math rotations. We were doing standard algorithm and drawing area models for division." -Erin

"We had writing rotations and we had to power write and then we're going to finish it and do our final draft tomorrow." -Liz

"Today we solo read for 20 minutes. I read a book called Uncommon Criminals." -Eden

"At recess, Lilith, and Savannah, and I did this exercising yoga thing that we do all the time and we do a kangaroo or frog jump and squats." -Analese

"Today I proved Mrs. Thompson wrong in multiplication because she said 72 wasn't a multiple of 4." -Katie

"We silent read and it felt like it wasn't 20 minutes, it felt like it was longer!" -Haylie

"I showed an awesome magic trick today!" -Roman

"In writing rotations we did a power paragraph." -Lilith

"We don't have weekly reports or homework packets until Friday." -Keilani

"At recess, I played soccer with the third graders. It was fun because it was 4-2." Cameron

"In PE, we did stations and my group was Erin, me, Kayla, and Eden." -Lila

"At recess, I tried to play four square, but apparently I got chased by my enemy." -Savahna

"I was walking in the hall and Tristin tripped me. He was walking to the bathroom, and his leg stuck out and I tripped." -Caydence

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

"At recess, I played soccer and keep-away." -Erin

"We got partners and we read an article about farmers' markets and how we should support them. Tomorrow we're going to write a paragraph about it." -Haylie

"We took an SRI test." -Ethan

"In reading, we read about the Pawnee." -Cameron

"We had math rotations. In Mrs. Gil's room we did dividing numbers with remainders with area." -Tayah

"We had a Lockdown drill." -Logan

"At recess, we played jump rope and we pretended that Ethan was the jump rope, so that's his new nickname!" -Caydence

"Me and Ashton had the lockdown in Mrs. Ferris's room." -Caelen

"In math rotations, we learned how to say a remainder of a division problem as a fraction." -Cole

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get signature
Work on HW packet
WOD: amazement - great surprise

Monday, November 17, 2014

"Today in music, when we were practicing our G scale, we showed Mrs. R and she said we aced it for next week's quiz." -Tristin

"In math, we were doing division word problems with remainders and learning strategies to do them with. One of them is a number bond, another one is tape diagrams, and the last one is an array." -Erin

"In reading, we read about a kid going to a museum." -Brandon

"In writing, we were power writing about two kids who were good problem solvers and how they worked together and got the problems done and it was way longer than the ones that we used to do!" -Liz

"At recess, me, Liz and Savannah went to Mr. Hick's room and Liz and Savannah kept picking up the crawdads and Mr. Hicks kept calling me a scaredy-cat for not picking them up." Caydence

"At recess, I got chased by my arch enemy!" -Savahna

"In music, we did a competition to see who could do that G scale fastest, and I won and got 1,000 team points!" -Lila

"Today I got a recorder and it's purplish-pink and I am terrible at playing it!" -Keilani

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature
Work on HW packet
WOD: mysterious - full of mystery


Thursday, November 13, 2014

"In Mrs. Markum's room we put our lungs, trachea, and our bronchi and our diaphragm on our bodies." -Caelen

"At recess we had to use a basketball for four square and it was really flat so it was hard to play, but then Keilani lent us her ball." - Savahna

"In math, we had groups and we went around the room doing story problems that were on the walls and the tables. My group was Roman, Lila, Cole, and Eli." -Liz






"At first recess, me, Tristin, and Alek went to Mr. Hick's room." -Caydence

"I went to Mrs. Frase's room and we did this story thing where you copy a story off of a book and write your own version of the story and mine was super-duper long!" -Analese

"When we were in line to leave Mrs. Markum's, Tristin fell into the coat rack!" -Katie

"In science rotations, we watched a video of pig lungs and they put 60 cigarettes in one of them and then left the other one clean. The one that had cigarettes was black inside." -Haylie

"When I went to Mr. Hick's class, he said me, Caydence, and Alek, he'll pick one of us when we're in 5th grade and dump us in the garbage can!" -Tristin

"Mrs. Markum said that we could color our body parts any color we want and I colored mine rainbow and it looked really realistic." -Erin

"In science we watched a video with human lungs. One was black because that person was smoking a lot, the other was healthy. They pumped air into them and the healthy one was pumping really but the black one was not pumping as well as the healthy one because it was black all over." -Ethan

Homework:
Read 30 min, fill out log, get signatures
HW packet due tomorrow
Spelling & WOD tests tomorrow
WOD: emerge - to become visible
WOD: sanctuary - a place where something is safe

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

"Today for science rotations we went to Mrs. Markum's and we learned about the respiratory system and we made a lung model." -Katie

"We didn't get to go outside for first recess because it was too cold, and at second recess, it was really cold outside!" -Erin

"At recess, I played on the yellow bars outside. They were freezing!" -Caydence

"I'm writing a story about four super heroes." -Analese

"Today at recess, we were playing four square and the sun was glaring only at the king's square so almost all the kings got out really fast because they couldn't see the ball!" -Liz

"Today we shared our high/lows for the four day weekend, but mostly everybody said they did nothing!" -Savahna

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature
Work on HW packet
WOD: habitat - the place where an animal lives
WOD: descendants - people in your family who come after you

Friday, November 7, 2014

Today we had an assembly explaining the reason for Veteran's Day. We were also honored to have many veterans as special guests. Many thanks to Mrs. Hayett who put on such a wonderful assembly!

Cole's Boy Scout troop was the color guard!

4th grade students singing the Navy's anthem. 

Our honored guests!


Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Happy birthday, Savahna! Thanks for sharing your delicious cupcakes with us!

"Today we celebrated my birthday!" -Savahna

"Today we reviewed Power Writing." -Eli

"Today Savahna chose me to help her pass out her cupcakes!" -Caydence

"I switched a vanilla cupcake for a chocolate cupcake and it was really good!" -Haylie

"At recess, me, Caydence, Nicole, Haylie, GG, and Charlotte practiced basketball." -Liz

"We switched seats!" -Ashton

"At recess, I did flips on the yellow bar." -Erin

"We didn't get to do science today. Wahhhhh!" -Lila

"Savahna also chose me to help her pass out cupcakes." -Caelen

"Savahna brought cupcakes!" -Eden

"When we ate cupcakes, I took the frosting off of mine and I got this fox ring and it says 'fall'." -Analese

Homework
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature
WOD: designed - created


Tuesday, November 4, 2014

"Today at recess, I played tag with a couple of friends." -Tristin

"In science rotations we learned that if you smoke your lungs will get clogged. And Eden told us that vanilla flavoring has a drug in it." -Caelen

"Today we had math rotations and I was in Mrs. Gil's class and I got better at the multiplication standard algorithm." -Erin

"In math rotations today, I got Mrs. Thompson and we learned how to do three digit by two digit multiplication." -Lila

"In science rotations, I learned about carbon dioxide and how it goes out your lungs." -Logan

"Today at recess, I beat my goal for doing flips on the yellow bars!" -Caydence

"In PE, we played a marble volleyball game and Miss Sandy would toss us the ball and whoever bumped it and got it over the net would get a marble or two and at the end, whoever got the most, won." -Brandon

"Today at recess, I told Mrs. Duffey that my neighbor is Adam Morrison's dad and his mom." -Analese

"At recess, I played Red Rover with Caydence, Cadence, Katie, and Charlotte." -Savannah

"In PE, my group won with 22 marbles and for our prize we got to choose from a variety of pencils but all of the pencils had animals on them." -Liz

"When we got to school, we saw place value charts on the floor." -Kameren

"With the place value charts, we did rotation problems and we used the charts on the floor and when we regrouped, we just took some counters off." -Savahna

"I had math rotations today and when I came back, I saw all these little circle things and what Kameren J. and Savahna said, that's what I saw on the floor." -Keilani

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature
WOD: achieved - reached your goal


"In music, we learned our song that we're going to sing at the Veteran's Day Assembly." -Erin

"We are learning about the respiratory system with Mrs. Thompson." -Cole

"We finally actually got to see Mrs. Byrd!" -Caydence

"In music, me, Ethan, Tayah, and Haylie won  a prize of either separating into a different team or staying and we picked staying." -Liz

"At Mrs. Thompson's class, we learned about the lungs and how you breathe out your nose." -Caelen

"Today we went to music and we got to pick new teams and I was on the blue team surrounded by boys again! Cameron R. and Ashton." -Keilani

"In music, I got on the purple team with Analese, Josh, and Kayla." -Lila

"At music, I was team captain!" -Analese

"At recess, I did Mad Libs with my friend, Addison." -Savahna

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 min, fill out log, get signature
WOD: challenges - things that stand in the way of achieving goals

Monday, October 20, 2014

"Today we had science rotations and our class went to Mrs. Gil's class." -Savahna

"In math, our target was to use formulas to find area and perimeter and the new packet that we got was 38 lessons long!" -Erin

"In math, I tried out a new formula for finding area with a missing side and it works with odd and even numbers!" -Haylie

"We learned about our skeletal system and the three main reasons why we need it. The first one is to protect all the squishy stuff. The second reason is to give us structure. The third one is to move." -Liz

"In music, me, Liz, Katie, and Roman did the Pea Wars. In the Pea Wars, I ended up taking Liz's peas!" -Caydence

"At recess I played four square and I got to be king!" -Caelen

"In recess, me, Tristin, Alek, Jace, Savannah, Savannah, Caydence, and Jordan made a team tag where it was boys versus girls. When the girls were it, they had to tag one boy and then all the boys were it, and then when one girl got tagged, all the girls were it." -Cole

"I stayed in at second recess and made a bunny bookmark." -Keilani

"In second recess, me and Analese were making books about Wasabi, Rolanda, Richard, and Alex." -Lilith

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get signature
Work on HW packet
Permission slip and $2 due this Friday
2 liter bottle due Friday, the 31st

Thursday, October 16, 2014

"Today we did a test about the digestive system. Most of it was really easy!" -Tayah

"Today in math me and Savahna were partners. We were doing story problems." -Caelen

"Today is Joseph's last day." -Caydence :(

"At 10:16 we had an earthquake drill called The Great Shake Up and it was really hard to fit under my desk!" -Erin

"I made a book and it's called Patty." -Analese

"During recess today, I played football and we won 21-14." -Ethan

"I colored my coloring sheet for the color contest for breakfast and lunch." -Liz

"At first recess, I walked around and did nothing because I can't do anything because I have a broken wrist." -Eli

"At gym, we got to play volleyball again and also, we first had to do push ups and warm ups." -Keilani

"At recess, I played four square." -Savahna

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get parent signatures
HW packet due tomorrow
Spelling test tomorrow
2 liter bottle due by 10/31

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

"Today we learned about the large intestine!" -Savahna

"We couldn't go out to our first recess because it was raining, so we had indoor recess in our classroom and we played Halloween pictionary on the board." -Erin

"Me and my friend, Lila, helped cut out bookmarks for the class at first recess." -Caydence

"At second recess, I played soccer and we tied 1-1." -Ethan

"At first recess, I played Mancala with Katie and we played with 2 boards instead of 1 and I won!" -Haylie

"Today we talked about poop because we are learning about the digestive system and today we learned about the large intestine." -Tristin

"The only part of the digestive system that you don't have to have is your appendix." -Tayah

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, and get parent signature
Work on HW packet
2 liter bottle due by Friday, 10/31

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

"We played on computers for a long time!" -Eli

"We played volleyball in PE and we bumped with our partners back and forth." -Haylie

"At recess, I played four square and I got to be king!" -Savahna

"At recess, I played soccer on the field. We tied 1-1." -Erin

"In math we learned about liters and milliliters." -Ethan

"At recess, I talked to Mrs. Duffey and told her about my favorite game and for lunch we had spaghetti. I got second choice because spaghetti is gross!" -Analese

"At second recess, I went to Miss. Kelton's room. We helped the kids with math." -Caydence

"We took an SRI test and my Lexile went down by 2!" -Liz

"I got to put the body parts from the digestive system on Cole's body because he's not here. Also, I glued my fingers on accident." -Keilani

"At recess, me, Tristin, and Alek played tag and they kept trying to get me because I was the slowest." -Joseph

"At recess, I played tag with Braeden, Marian, and Carrie." -Savannah

"At recess, I played four square." -Lila

"Me, Eli, and Ashton went to LAP and we read a book called Gail at the Game." -Caelen

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get parent signature
Work on HW packet

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

We have traced and cut out our bodies and are ready to learn about all of the systems that keep us going! We're starting with the digestive system!

Tell your parents what this is a picture of using the words "trachea", "esophagus", and "epiglottis." Have your parent email me or send a note explaining what you taught them and get a free homework pass!

Friday, October 3, 2014

A big congrats to Liz and Tayah for being recognized at our Spirit Assembly today! Tayah was voted by her classmates as showing the most responsibility in our class and Liz was recognized by Miss Sandy for being a star student in PE!

Thursday, October 2, 2014

"In math, we made a tape diagram to show how much more somebody had compared to someone else. We took turns coming up to the board and drawing our tape diagrams and solving it." -Liz






"At snack, I made five funny faces!" -Caydence

"In PE, we got weighed and the girls had to go in during second recess because we didn't get time to get weighed in PE." -Savahna

"In reading, we read a story about astronauts and how they make spin-offs of their food." -Erin

"In PE, we played a game where you have a bowling pin and you're trying to protect it from other people throwing bean bags at it." -Ethan

"We took a test on the brain and telling about how it works and about how it can send messages and other stuff." -Keilani

"At recess, I jumped rope with Mr. Valentine again and we did the whole entire song called Texaco." -Caelen

"Mrs. Byrd called my table and she had us write a tape diagram on the white board during math." -Lillith

"In PE, Katie fell over me! She was trying to do a cartwheel and she fell on top of me!" -Eden

Homework:
HW packet due tomorrow
WOD today: realistic - seeming real
WOD: protested - disagreed with
Spelling & WOD test tomorrow!

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

"We played Brain Jeopardy and my team got 1,800 points!"- Tristin


"I can solve two-step word problems using the standard algorithm for subtraction and tape diagrams." -Keilani

"I walked around at recess and I pretty much played on everything." -Lillith

"Today at recess we had to use double dutch ropes for jump rope because we couldn't find the white jump rope." -Savahna

"We did 2 hours and 15 minutes of math and at recess, I played tag on the Kelly Toy." -Erin

"We played Brain Jeopardy and there were some harder questions and we got some of the harder questions first and we had a few that we got wrong because the very first one we did Mrs. Byrd only said once and then we forgot." -Liz

"Today I played jump rope with Savahna and we jumped with Mr. Valentine!" -Caelen

"Today I watched Mr. Valentine play soccer and jump rope!" -Caydence

"I played soccer with Mr. Valentine!" -Eli

"At recess, I played soccer with the third graders and Ben from Mrs. Gil's class and Mr. Valentine helped us." -Ethan

"I can explain how the brain sends messages. Through neurons!" -Lila

"Today I played pass with Josh with my tennis ball at recess." -Cameron

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read for 30 minutes, fill out log, get parent signature

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

"Today we sang the Dendrite Song." -Caelen

"We learned about MRI's." -Lilith

"We wrote about if we went into the future or the past and picked what time zone we would want to be in." -Liz

"In math we did rotations and I went to Mrs. Gil's class. We worked on subtracting across zeros." -Savahna

"In writing, I wrote that when I'm 20, there might be an iPhone 16 and that my parents might not have any real leverage over me!" -Erin

"Today I played football with Josh and Joe." -Cameron

"In gym, we played a game and if you get tagged by the ball, then you freeze, but if you get tagged by a different ball then you unfreeze. And we had to do about how your neck can stretch while you look at paper and that our gym teacher measured us." -Keilani

"At recess, I played jump rope." -Caydence

"I wrote in writing that I want to go into the future and maybe there will be a candy forest!" -Joseph

"For math rotations, I went to Mrs. Thompson." -Tristin

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get signature
WOD yesterday: sensible - thinking before you act
WOD today: paralyzed - unable to move

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

"I learned that in PE that we did curl ups and it helps your body and you can always do curl ups when you want." -Keilani

"Our word of the day was persistence. It means to not give up." -Savahna

"In reading, we read a story called Kid Reporters at Work and we made a Venn diagram for the United Nations and the World Children's Organization." -Erin

"Today in math, we had a math test and I got 12 out of 13." -Eli

"We had pictures today and the picture person told me to say I was beautiful." -Caydence

"We didn't get to do science today! Nooooooooooooooo!!" -Roman

"We had PE in the cafeteria today because they were taking pictures in the gym." -Brandon

"Today was the first day of band for the trumpets." -Cole

"At recess, I played four square." -Caelen

"Oh my gosh, I did not know that a parent could do the splits but she did it in the gym during pictures." -Lily

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, fill out summary, get signature
WOD: persistence - never giving up

Monday, September 22, 2014

TOMORROW IS INDIVIDUAL PICTURE DAY! ENVELOPES WERE SENT HOME TODAY!

"We sang the Dendrite Song!" -Tayah

"In science, we learned about how caffeine affects your body and it's not good for you to do every day, a lot." -Erin

"We learned that caffeine will start pumping adrenaline into your body." -Roman

"Today I played jump rope with my friends and we had to tie two jump ropes together because the white one went missing." -Savahna

"Today we had kinderbuddies! My kinderbuddy's name is Emma." -Caydence

"In reading today we learned how to describe the structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text using compare and contrast in a Venn diagram." -Ethan

"We had kinderbuddies and mine is Tristin's cousin and her name is Aria." -Liz

"We played with our kinderbuddies at recess!" -Keilani

"Today at second recess, we got to go out with the fifth graders." -Eli

"Today I got to meet my kiderbuddy and her name is Lily." -Lila

"Our second recess was at 2:00 instead of the normal 2:15." -Cole

"Today I played with my kinderbuddy and his name is Zachary." -Brandon

"Music was fun. We played rhythm bingo and I won." -Analese 

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, fill out summary, get signature
WOD: identified - recognized

Thursday, September 18, 2014

"We sang the Dendrite Song and now I can sing the whole entire song without the words!" -Caelen

"I learned that if you are fatigued, then your neurons will stop working and I also learned from Roman that a certain type of poison can make it to where the neurons go so fast you shake, or so slow that you're paralyzed." -Joseph

"I am glad that we're learning about the brain because when I was little, I used to think that there were little people working in my brain!" -Haylie

"Today we sang the Dendrite Song and I remembered the whole song!" -Lily

"Today at recess, I played jump rope with my friends." -Savahna

"I can round a multi-digit number to any place value!" -Cameron

"When we were doing the word of the day, we made up movements for the words that we were doing and we also did that for science to remember because your brain loves movement. And if you spend 8 hours a night sleeping, when you're 75, you have spent 25 years asleep!" -Erin

"I learned that you can still round a number if there is a zero in the place that you are supposed to round." -Liz

"Today at snack, me and Caelen, and Katie, and Savahna made a bed for my Pikachus."
-Caydence

"We did soccer at PE." -Analese

"Lots of people got warnings for talking during silent work time, but not me!" -Eli

Homework:
Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature
HW packet due tomorrow
Spelling & WOD test tomorrow
Multiplication Timed Test tomorrow
WOD: several - more than two

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

"We learned about pilots and how they can crash if they go for a long time without sleep, they can crash easily." -Keilani

"At recess, I played red rover." -Lily

"I learned that if you don't get enough sleep, your neurons won't work right and it kind of throws you off." -Savahna

"At recess, we played soccer and won 1-0." -Ethan

"I learned that if you don't get enough sleep, then you won't do as good in school and you'll be really tired." -Liz

"In science, we learned about fatigue and plane crashes." -Erin

"At recess, I played soccer with the third graders." -Cameron

"At recess, I played with Lily, Savannah, and Tayah, and Cherish." -Caydence

"I learned that kids need to get AT LEAST 11 hours of sleep!" -Roman

"Some of us did hard core Quest testing!" -Cole

"Today I learned that an adult should have at least 8 hours of sleep and a kid should have at least 11 hours of sleep." -Caelen

"I can round multi-digit numbers to any place using a vertical number line." -Eli

"I learned that I can do a 3-pointer shot in basketball." -Joseph

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get parent signature
WOD: policy - a rule

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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"We read a story called The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein and we did a plot chart." -Erin

"We took a test in PE on fitness." -Haylie

"We learned about number lines in math. We were rounding to the nearest thousand." -Savahna

"We did word of the day. It was temporary. It means lasting a short amount of time." -Lily

"Today at recess, I played Red Rover." -Caydence

"At second recess it was me and Erin and Cole against Miguel, Nate, and Ashton. We were playing soccer and we won." -Liz

"I can round multi-digit numbers to the thousands place using a number line." -Eli

"I can describe a character, setting, or event in a story using specific details from the text." -Cameron

"I can explain how the brain sends messages." -Keilani

"At recess, I played four square and red rover." -Caelen


Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes, write your summary, and get signature
WOD: temporary - lasting for a short amount of time

Monday, September 15, 2014

"We sang the Dendrite Song." -Cameron

"Our teacher showed us the most weirdest thing I've ever seen! They were human bodies that were pulled out of real people!" -Haylie

"Our teacher showed us the most COOLEST pictures about bodies from real people!" -Ethan

"I think I want to become a neuroscientist because I saw a really cool picture of the human brain and muscles and bones!" -Liz

"We saw in the book a really weird picture of people that scientists cut off their skin and it's just, like, muscle and you can see their brain and their eye balls sticking out!" -Lily

"I can find 1, 10, and 100 thousand more and less than a number!" -Eli

"We talked about bullying and there are these three ways to get away: stop, walk, and talk." -Keilani

"I learned that many people can hurt your feelings and ruin your life, but you have to not think of it that way, you have to think of it as them having a horrible life and taking it out on you. So you gotta help the bullies out. This class rules!" -Joseph

"At recess I played four square and jump rope." -Caelen

"In reading, we read a story called The Surprise and we made a plot chart." -Erin

"Today we learned about the pons, medulla, cerebellum, and anterior singulate in science!" -Caydence

"We learned about the Spelling Ace!"

Homework:
Work on HW packet
Read 30 minutes and get parent signatures
WOD: curious - interested in finding things out
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