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Weather has required some indoor recess times lately which has resulted in more GoNoodle times!

As we read, we have post it notes to mark our thinking. Sometimes we mark it with a quick ? or ! or such, especially when we are really caught up in a book and don’t want to stop for … Read More →

You can click on the link below to see a short video of students reading independently. Independent Reading

When we got our math materials we found that our fraction blocks were a bit of a mess. Fortunately, some students were willing to take the time to help organize them so that we’ll have them ready for when we … Read More →

Coming up with ideas for writing can be a challenge sometimes. To address that, we have created some pages in the back of our writing notebooks where we collect ideas. One of those pages is full of Life Changes. These … Read More →

Our afternoons can get a bit long. We get back to our classroom after lunch around 12:30 and are there until 2:40 without another break, so we make our own breaks. We do GoNoodles.

To practice subitizing and finding strategies for quickly combining numbers, we did an activity called Area Design. Students made groups from an image, usually of up to about 6 blocks, and wrote equations for how they saw the groups. The … Read More →

Like independent reading, independent writing is something we will do every day. Sometimes that will be very open, with students have many choices. Other times they will be working on specific types of writing to develop their craft. And at … Read More →

When you come for Back to School Night, check out the graphs students made with emojis. They are hanging on the wall across from our classroom. In groups, students decided on what their X axis would be and what their … Read More →

Throughout the year we will talk with partners about many different things. We’ll talk about our thinking about the books we read (the ones we read as a class and the ones we’re reading individually), the strategies we’re trying in … Read More →