Preparing for Winter

What is going on inside this kayaker’s head?!?!

Oh my!!!

An Update for our Friend Studying in Ecuador

 

Mr. Schonegg teaching a small group lesson on using a thesaurus.

Miss King teaching a small group lesson on using an atlas.

Student “teachers”!

Student “teachers” explained to small groups how to attack this complicated story problem:

Sheila had 20 coins. 2/5 of the coins were dimes. 1/4 of the coins were quarters. 3/10 of the coins were nickels. The rest of the coins were pennies. How many of each coin did Sheila have? How much money did Sheila have all together?

Helping one another!

Monday!

Weekly focus:

Mrs. Adamowicz’s Math Group:

multiplication and division

introduce and begin to investigate positive and negative numbers

Mrs. Adamowicz’s Reading Group:

Unit One Review (test will be given on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday):

Word Study: prefixes, suffixes, compound words, homonyms, alphabetical order

Phonics: short vowels; plurals; adding endings: -ed, -ing, -er, -est; vowel pairs: ai, ay, ee, ea, ou, ow, oi, oy

Comprehension: fantasy vs. reality; character and setting; sequencing

Homework tonight: Complete character description on Saruni from My Rows and Piles of Coins. Example of a character description pictured below.

Character description on Chester from the story Chester's Way, by Kevin Henkes. The students wrote the description together.

Preservice teacher small group lesson topics:

Measurement: Weight, Volume, Capacity

Reference Materials: Dictionary, Atlas, Phone Directory, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia

volume

 

capacity

 

weight

Saturday School

Teachers and aides are spending all day at school learning about the latest technology in education!

Financial Friday

Using "cash" to share whole-dollar amounts equally. If $54 is shared equally by three people, how much does each person get?

Share $71 equally among five people. How much does each person receive?

Character descriptions!

A character description makes a person or story character come alive for the reader. It vividly describes the person's actions and character traits.

Wacky Wednesday!

Just another marvelous Monday!

Focus for the week:

Mrs. Adamowicz’s math group:

• multiplication using mental math and the partial-products algorithm
• identifying whole-number factors
• sharing whole-dollar amounts equally

Mrs. Adamowicz’s reading group:

• Reading Comprehension: characters, setting, story structure
• Phonics: vowel dipthongs
• Grammar: Compound sentences

Rainy day!

College teachers read us stories!

We visited Ms. Comber's room where her high school freshmen performed storytelling speeches!