January 14, 2013

Happy New Year! Above, you can see pictures our of our completed Jesse Tree and Mr. Lindo, who came in to teach a lesson on weather.

The students did a fantastic job of setting New Year's resolutions and wrote well-organized paragraphs describing their goals, with resolutions ranging from eating more fruits and vegetables to not jumping on the couch. We're working right now on verbs, and then we will be writing persuasive paragraphs.

We have a field trip coming up to the Field Museum this Friday, and a social studies test on Thursday. We are still reading The Whipping Boy, and discussing plot maps, character changes, and setting. Right now, it looks like we'll be done reading the book the week of January 28, which means the castle, rat, or simile project will be due then.

Our weather forecasts are online! Ms. Perkins is uploading them as the students complete them. To hear, go to this link, and click on the tab that says "minicasts." This month, the students are learning about matter. We did some activities last week looking at the different states of matter and how they are defined, including investigating oobleck, which sometimes acts as a liquid and sometimes like a solid! This week, we'll measure length, mass, and volume, using tools like a balance and graduated cylinder.

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