Thursday, March 31, 2016

It is Thursday already!  Wow where has the week gone?  I guess this is what happens with a short week.

This morning during our Daily 5 we were surprised with an invitation to gather in the Learning Commons with Mrs. Peterson's class.  When we arrived, Mrs. Kinsman treated us to a very special reading of "What Do You Do with an Idea" - by Kobi Yamada.  Thank you!

This afternoon, we had a whirlwind math class where we continued to investigate multiplication strategies.  Mr. Demman was drawing names from a container.  We were paired and challenged to solve a multiplication problem while demonstrating how we understand that the answer is correct.

In science inquiry we were hard at work.

The scientists reviewed what we had planned for our website.  We then broke into smaller groups that would work on each part of the website.  We will be communicating our learning and sharing our understanding in each section.  We have also began to think about pollination?  Why would that be important to our habitat in Mars?

Our engineers made some fantastic progress with the construction of our Mars structure.  It was great to see (and hear) the organization and distribution of tasks as well as the effective communication skills that are developing.  We will be reviewing our process to see what was effective, what worked well and what do we think we might change?

Finally, at the end of the day we participated in gym.  We had another spirited session of Hospital Tag, this time with a few new twists.  We worked so hard that others in the hallway couldn't help but notice (and comment) on our rosy red cheeks!!!



1.)  Annie Ticket Order Forms went home today.  These orders are time sensitive.
2.)  We will not be going on a Community Nature Walk tomorrow.


Write an addition sentence and a multiplication sentence to find the number of school days in five weeks.