Pictures II

Research Clubs! Ask your child what they learned about Sharks, Wolves, Penguins, Frogs, and Elephants!!!

Happy Birthday, Evan!!!

Field Trip Fun!!!

Research clubs have begun! Ask your child what animal they are researching and what subtopics they will focus on!

Happy Birthday to Pascal and Colin!!!

Thank you Mr. Degman for being our Guest reading during LRC!!!

Great Day for A Solar Eclipse!

Happy Birthday David!!!

Happy Birthday to Milaela and Martin!!!

Congratulations Nina and thank you for sharing your amazing Talent Show performance!!!

Happy Birthday, Chloe!!!

Happy Birthday, Evan and Pauly!!!

In Math, students work with a partner to find the area of figures and then group together figures with the same area. Ask your child how they found the area of the figures...Length times width, counting unit squares, adding the areas of composite figures.

Happy Birthday, Jake!!!

In Social Studies, students are working in groups of 3 to decide on how to allocate funds based on their budget. Each group has a budget of 15 tokens. They need to best decide how to use these funds. Ask them what categories were the most important...Savings...Food...Clothing. Ask them which ones came next...School Supplies,,, Entertainment...Charitable Donations.

In Social Studies, students are learning about our global economy. We played a game where each child was a country. They were able to sell to and buy from other countries. Every time a transaction was made, they rolled a ball of yard from themselves to the purchasing country. This continued until all goods were sold. The student could visually see/understand how we are all connected and interdependent in our global economy!

Cougar Dens and Fair February! Students were assigned the task of building the tallest structure they could using paper cups. They were divided into 3 teams. As they began working, they realized that each team had different-sized cups, making the challenge unfair! Ask your child how this felt. Ask them how we fixed the unfair situation and what happened next!

Books clubs are in full swing in reading! Ask your child about their book and their main character's journey up and down the story mountain.

Happy Birthday, Mia!!!

Happy Birthday, John!!!

Valentine's Day Fun!!!

Students are working together to match time on an analog clock to a picture of an event during the day or evening hours. They needed to write the time digitally and include am or pm. Ask your child how they know if the time is am or pm!

Book club discussions! Ask your child about their book and how they are preparing for discussions with their book club friends! Ask them what theories they are growing about their characters. Ask them what their characters do and say, what problems they are facing,g and how they respond to challenges.

We have some awesome essay writers in room #123! Ask your child how they write a strong persuasive essay! Ask them what claim they made about their character and how they backed their claim with evidence!

Author visit! Troy Cummings was here today sharing his love of story writing and illustrating! Ask your child how he comes up with his ideas for both stories and characters!

Students in math class are working on the Area and Perimeter Snowglobes! Ask your child how they find the perimeter of a figure and the area of a figure.

Students presented their monuments dedicated to their historical figures who showed good citizenship and worked for the common good. Ask your child about their historical figure and why they are worthy of recognition and what made them a good citizen!

In math, students are using tiles to determine the area of polygons. Ask your child how they know what the area of a figure is...They can count the tiles...Ask them if polgons with the same shape all have the same area...No...Ask them if polygons with different shapes always have different areas...No.

Happy Belated Birthdays to Logan and Galinda!!!

In the above photos, students are working with a partner in Language Arts to find evidence to support a claim about a character. Ask your child about the character, claim, and evidence they found:

Jamaica is caring because she returned a red hat to the lost and found, asked Kristen to play with her, and returned Edgar Dog to the lost and found because she knew it belonged to someone else.

Students are finding primary sources that support a section of reading they did in Social Studies. Ask your child what the main idea of their reading was today...People immigrate to the United States for a better life.

In Math, students are reading word problems and deciding which expression would work to solve the word problem. They are then matching the expression to the correct problems.