Reminders

This week I just have a few reminders for you since I was only in the class for one day.

I was out Tuesday and Wednesday for math curriculum work and I was home sick today with a fever and a cough.  It is very hard for me to stay home, but I did not want to spread the germs to the entire class!

Please remember students will not be allowed to pass out any candy on Valentine's Day.

Non-edible treats are permitted but not required: pencils, stickers, tattoos, erasers, etc.

Please send in the shoebox with the supplies to build the instrument on Monday.

The materials inside should be a secret.   

Have a healthy weekend!

Clipart from Scrappindoodles.com

This Week - Final Post

I am sorry for the numerous posts tonight.

With all the pictures I had to share I thought it might be too much to have everything in one post.

A reminder from last week:

Students will not be allowed to pass out candy on Valentine's Day.

Small non-edible treats can (but are not required) be sent to school: pencils, erasers, tattoos, etc.

I will send home a class list next week.

If you choose to send valentines to school please make sure to include one for each child.

Today I sent home a note asking for materials to create an instrument as a final project for our sound unit.  Please do not discuss the items or the instrument that can be made with the items.  This is a wonderful creative thinking and problem solving activity for the children.

Finally, I will be out of the classroom next week on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

I will be in school participating in math curriculum work.

Thank you very much for reading all of this week's posts!

Enjoy the long weekend!

This Week-Part 3 Village Hall and Police Department Field Trip

Please enjoy the pictures from our field trip this morning to the Buffalo Grove Village Hall and Police Department

Village Hall

Police Department

Bryanne's mugshot

Inside a jail cell

This Week - Part 2 Story Retells and Opinion Writing

We had a very busy and exciting week!

We had two field trips and the 5th grade musical amid all of our learning.

In reading we got a head start on the trimester 3 target of retelling a story.

The class read Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly a Plane. They then worked with partners to fill in a story map, use the information on the story map to write the retell, and illustrate part of the story.

The class has been doing a great job with opinion writing.

This week we wrote a paragraph with reasons that supported why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader.

We read two stories, a Scholastic News magazine, and watched a short Brainpop Jr. video to research information.

This is our brainstorming sheet.  We write all of our ideas, then pick and choose the 3
reasons we will include in our paragraph.

After brainstorming, we fill in our planning sheet.
This organizes our ideas so we are reading to write.