January 19th, 2016

During Daily 5 students received their new words for spelling, as well as worked on their editing skills.  After Daily 5 students went to music and played a new game called "King Treble Clef" game, where students used the staff to recreate words.  Please ask your child about this game.  During gym students did a fitness test called the "Beep" test.

Also, we continued to read the book Wonder.

This afternoon, during Mrs. Quilley's math class, students continued to work on their math word problem, as well as create a Frayer model to investigate different strategies (arrays, skip counting, and grouping) to multiply the equation 5 X 6 =  .

After math, students worked on the water filtration system or their building unit.  If possible we are still looking for some supplies for the water filtration system; water bottles, cups, popsicle sticks, sponges, rocks, pebbles, sand, elastics, etc.  If your child is able to bring the supplies by Thursday so they can start creating their project.

Students are in the process of investigating a different country.  Today I have asked students to dig deeper into the life of a child in their country; school, rights, health care, activities, travel to school, etc.  If possible please have your child bring in extra resources from their country; newspaper articles, magazines, books, etc. to help them learn more about their country.  In time, students are required to answer this question.... What would it be like to live in (country) when I'm (8/9) years old?

Blog written by students of room 82!