Character Costume Day

What a fun day dressing up as some of our favorite book characters!!

Even the teachers got into the spirit of it all...

Science Weekly Word Bank: Week 6

This week’s words include:

transparent

mechanical
electromagnetic
refract
light
Thomas Edison
solid
reflect
echo
emit

Unit 3 Review

Today we reviewed the concepts that will be on tomorrow's math test. We did this by making videos where we had to really explain our thinking!

Composite vs. Prime numbers
By Colin and Hayden
(remember, composite numbers have more than one factor pairs and prime numbers only have one factor pair: 1 and itself)

Factor Rainbows and Factor Pairs
By Reagan and Savannah

Multiplying (using lattice - multiply first, add diagonals
seond)By Nick, Jack, and Jake

Area and Perimeter
area - inside of a figure
A = length x width

perimeter - outside of the figure
P = (length + length) + (width + width)

Math Facts Websites

Here are some great websites to help practice with the nightly math facts! The awesome thing about these games is that most actually allow you to play on your computer or tablets! I've listed some of the specific games below, but once you get to the site, you can see that there are several different games that would help reinforce these skills.

 

Multiples: Crossing Math Canyon

 

Around the World: Basic Multiplication Facts

(timed per problem)

 

Great American Math Challenge

(basic flash cards)

 

Multiplication Games

(the link to the general site that includes many other multiplication games)

 

Addition Practice

(link inlcudes: games, basic drill practice, printables, and more!)

 

Subtraction Practice

(link inlcudes: games, basic drill practice, printables, and more!)

 

Divison Practice

(link inlcudes: games, basic drill practice, printables, and more!)

 

 

Literacy Research Project

With the completion of our second literacy unit, Tales of the Heart, kiddos had to put what they learned to work. Everyone completed a totally independent research project. The topic was self-selected (focusing on the human body), research done alone, presentation created, and then shared with the class via Edmodo.

The presentation was done by “app smashing” two different apps: ChatterPix and ThingLink. We had a lot of fun making these and enjoyed seeing one another’s projects.

Here are their final products:

Aubrey

Hayden

Reagan

Margaret

Emma

Kaden

Emily

Holly

Payton

Naomi

Aidan

Saylor

Jake

Ella

Justin

Sarah

Cameron

Colin

Cece

Nick

Sam