Friday, January 31, 2014

Friday Jan 31st

"Today we took pictures in our football gear during library." - Ashlynn

" Today Miss Lallier was our substitute teacher."- Kylee

" This morning two 6th graders came in to take our pictures if we wore Seahawks gear." - Chase

" Kenan was the only brave one who was a Broncos fan." - Ella

" We had library today and did some puzzles but found they had missing pieces." - Kenan

" Carrie, Ella and I did a duck puzzle and we called duckie-mo-mo." - Matt

" During reading I read The Black Stallion and the Shape Shifter." - Abby

"Today I read a book that Chase wrote." - Torri

" GO HAWKS!!!!!" - The entire class (except for Ashlynn and Kenan)

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Wednesday, January 29th

"Today we had social studies rotations, we watched a video about the Whitman's and added more to the banner that we're doing." ~ Carrie

"The Whitman's were two people that came across the Rocky Mountains, they helped the Native Americans. Mrs. Whitman helped them learn to sew, cook, knit and speak English. The husband was a doctor and he helped those that were sick. The Whitman's were actually carrying Small Pox and Measles, which they passed onto the Native American's." ~ Kaydin

"In P.E. we had our bones test, I got 100%!" ~ Kolby

"Austin Hillborn said 'I was born to blog!'" ~ LJ

"During reading we did an IVF summary about this story we read called Words Add up to Success. The story was about a teacher who changed his students' lives by motivating them with strong words to do better and be successful." ~ Kylee

"This morning we had math rotations and we did division using the dot model." ~ Ashlynn

"I studied for the bone test and I got 100% on the bone test too!" ~ Ella

Reminders:

Wear Seahawks/Bronco gear on Friday!
Homework due Friday!

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Tuesday, January 28th

"Today in reading, we read 'A Renaissance in Harlem'. I learned that there were many popular African American entertainers and artists." -Kolby

"In music, we sang 'Roll On Columbia, Roll On' and 'Grand Coulee Dam'. We also did try-outs for the solos and narrators." -Layne

"This afternoon we got the opportunity to take an SRI test." -Chase

"Our class got to have a lot of computer time today doing math games, SRI and finishing typing our writing prompt." -Kaitlin

"During math we learned how to divide 4 digit numbers by 2,3,4, and 5." -Abby


Reminders:
Homework due on Friday
Study for bone test tomorrow
Weekly reports were due Monday
T-shirt orders due February 3rd

Monday, January 27, 2014

Monday, January 27th


"Today in PE we didn't take the bone test because only 4 or 5 people studied." -Sean

"This afternoon we went to Mrs. Byrd's and we did social studies. We learned about how people got to Washington. It was a very difficult journey.  Many people died and got ill." -Mikaela

"At the beginning of the year 116 fur trappers went out, and at the end of the year only 16 lived." -Ella

"For the project in social studies, we got to make a big map of where they lived and some things we put on it were a big river.  We are also going to put on the fur trappers lodge and we did tipis, trees, and animals." -Kaydin

"Ashlynn and I read Trouble River with Ms. Mary." -Kylee

"This morning we had a lesson with Radical Rick.  We were doing experiments about sound. We learned that sound travels in waves and travels faster through water and steel because they are more dense so the vibrations travel faster." -LJ

"With Radical Rick, one of the stations that I got to do was you put a spoon on a string.  Then you hit the spoon against something hard and then hold the string up to your ears.  I heard church bells because the vibrations traveled up the string." -Mary

Reminders:
Study for the bone test on Wednesday
Weekly reports were due today
Homework due on Friday
Math sheets in homework packets is not optional

Friday, January 24, 2014

Friday, January 24th

"Today some of us were able to finish our writing about animals that can live in the heat, cold and underwater." ~ Chase

"In kinder-buddies we read to them and they read to us, and we helped them finish their math activity." ~ Kylee

"This morning I got to finish my Washington map! It turned our really good...I feel like I did a perfect map!" ~ Carrie

"Mrs. Swan came into library and talked to us about empathy. Empathy means that you would put yourself in somebody eases shoes when they were feeling bad or something bad happened to them. Like, if someone fell down on the playground, instead of laughing you would think "if I fell down, I wouldn't want people laughing at me." ~ Ella

"During math today we used our whiteboards and we were doing challenging division problems, we were using the dot/disk diagram to solve them." ~ Ashlynn

"I was surrounded by girls in writing rotations today." ~ ?


Reminders:

Weekly Reports and Homework came home today!
Weekly Reports due Monday!
Homework due Friday!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Thursday, January 23rd

"During social studies some people finished their Washington maps!" ~ Kaydin

"This morning we went to music and we had auditions for Grand Coulee Dam and Roll on Columbia, Roll On. Kaydin, Chase, Kolby, LJ, Mikaela, Kylee, Austin M. and Trey sang." ~ Torri

"In social studies on our maps we did the Columbia Plateau Region and the Okanogan Highland Region. They have wheat farms in the Columbia Plateau Region." ~ Kylee

"This afternoon in writing rotations we finished our power writing about animals who survive in different environments, also known as their habitat." ~ LJ

"Also in social studies we finished our Discovering Washington book. ~ Carrie

"Today at recess Torri, Mikaela, Ashlynn, Kaitlin and I played tag, and if you tagged someone you had to link. When you were linked it slowed you down so it made it harder to tag people." ~ Ella

"In social studies today we had to label a bunch of places in Washington and then we got to color the regions in. I didn't get to because I was working really hard on my handwriting so I didn't get as far." ~ Ashlynn


Reminders:

Homework due tomorrow! Don't forget the math pages are now required!
Remember to turn in your Weekly Reports!
Spelling but no Word of the Day test!


Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Wednesday, January 22nd

"This afternoon we did writing rotations and Mrs. Byrd's class will get to go on the computers to type tomorrow." -Divinity

"After we were done with our Cascade Mountain Region on our map, we read chapters 17 and 18 in Discovering Washington.  Then, we got to play math games on the computer." -Matt

"This morning we got to have math rotations.  We learned about factors and multiples for numbers up to 100. We learned that prime numbers only have two factors, 1 and itself.  Composite numbers are where it has more than 2 factors. The number 1 is neither prime nor composite." -Sean

"We worked on our social studies maps.  We did the Cascade Mountain Regions and Western Lowlands Region too." -Kylee

"This morning I got to read with Torri our new book called Trouble River." -Mary

"Today in PE we got to play a game and you pick up a blue card and see what it says.  Then you reach in a bucket and get the piece of paper that matches the bone." -Ella

Reminders:
Homework due Friday
Weekly reports were due Tuesday
PE test is Monday (study guide going home today)
Math sheets on homework packets are required