Monthly Archives: April 2024

We are getting really good at these finches! Soon we’ll be decorating them to finish off the ocean animal plans.

Another way we practiced measuring in inches and centimeters was to draw robots flying kites. The robots had to be 5 inches tall, the kite had to be 3 centimeters wide, and the kite string had to be 2 1/2 … Read More →

To practice measuring length we used rulers and white boards. We measured in both of inches and centimeters.

To kick off our measurement unit last week, we learned about being a landscape architect and a biologist so that we can design zoo enclosures and plan for the animals in them. (We’ll have to measure length, volume, and time.)

At the end of each morning meeting, we read our message. Our meeting manager leads us in reading the message.

One morning meeting activity we do is A Warm Wind Blows. Our meeting manager makes statements that start with “A warm wind blows for people who…” and then finish it with things like “like the color purple” or “ate cereal … Read More →

In word study we’ve been exploring inflectional and derivational suffixes.

This is the writing that is with the last series of photos.

The students wrote about our eclipse viewing: We went out to see the eclipse. We wore these type of sunglasses that can protect our eyes from the sun. We saw the sun but it looked like the moon. The view … Read More →

In 25 years of teaching I have had to do indoor recess for a lot of different reasons, but an eclipse was a new one to me. We stayed inside because the eclipse began before our recess time. After recess … Read More →