Student News: October 21, 2005
written by the Scholars of Room
208This week in Math, 3rds
did the "Trade First Then Subtract" method. The "Trade First" method is when you
trade [the] tens to [the] ones and hundreds to the tens, etc. While the 3rds
were doing that , the 4ths were doing work with globes. They pretended they flew
to different countries and then found out the distance they flew. And that is
what we did in
Math.
The
next thing that happened [was] Marc did a
Book
Talk. During a Book Talk, you share a book
that you enjoyed reading. You also share unfamiliar books and their good
authors. When doing a book talk make sue you're at leas halfway through the
book. And don't forget when you're talking, look at everyone. Also try to find a
book that the class would be interested in. And have fun! That is a Book
Talk!Also, this week Mr. I's
class and our class got together to learn about comments for our Poetry
Blog. There is a piece of paper that says "I Like... I Wonder if You
Could... and Questions..." Before you go on the Poetry Blog to do comments, you
write on this paper and answer [the questions]. Only the kids in Room 208 and
Room 209 (Mr. I's class) can comment on each others' work on our Poetry Blog. We
can comment on anyone's poems. The types of poems we have been working on are
"Haiku" poems and "I
Am" poems. We will be working on poems throughout the school year. We
have been working really hard on the poems that we did. We really enjoyed this
activity. Finally, this week we
Science. We started learning about
"Wants"
and
"Needs"
and Habitat.
We went next door to Mr. I's classroom to do
fun science projects, like making a list of what we would
Want
and what we Need
[on a pretend trip we were taking]. At first
we didn't know where we were going. Then we found out that we were pretending to
go to Mars and had to change our list
BIG
TIME! This time Mr. S, Mr. I, and Mrs. M
had to put the posters on the wall for a "Quiet Gallery" in the room. We also
got blue dots that meant Needs
and orange dots that meant
Wants
and everyone went around the room and put dots on each thing that was needed and
wanted. Now we are starting to make a terrarium. A terrarium is an aquarium with
no water. It will be very fun! We hope this will be successful.
Posted: Fri - October 21, 2005 at 07:47 PM
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