May 13

Field Trip to Portland Head Light

In front of a cannon that was discovered from a sunken ship.

John was our AWESOME tour guide

Highlights From The Week

We learned that flowers can move by absorbing water. 

Function machine in math. 

Visiting author, Zacharia Ohora was amazing!  

We finished our opinion writing by writing a review.

April 26th

Our last unit in reading is a study of story elements. 

Comprehension strategies

Natasha from CELT taught us about plants. 

People, animals, and plants have a lot in common. 

We planted lettuce seeds. 

Earth Day was on Monday and we did activities all week. 

In math, we are learning about fact families. 

We reviewed small moment stories from the fall and took a writing test. 

April 11

In writing, we are learning to develop our stories. 

After learning about development. 

Before learning about development.

We learned more comprehension tools in reading. 

Subtracting with a calculator. 

Great job Willa!

Parent traits in science class. 

Inherited traits for the offspring.

First week of April

Learning about equivalent names for numbers.

A bouquet of equivalent names.

Reading bosses make sure they understand what they read. 

Checking our understanding while reading these two books.

Learning to persuade people of our opinion! 

Learning new glued sounds in word study. 

Learning update 3/29

Comprehension work

We discovered patterns in our new writing unit. 

A lot of hard work on place value this week. 

New science unit on parents and their offspring.

Parents protect their offspring and give them their needs.

New Learning Targets!

Time to take charge of your reading! 

Today we started a new writing unit! 

Learning about the hundreds place by making number scrolls.

                    

Communicating with Light in Science!