Our New Student Joins Us! :)

Today we got a new student in our class. Her name is Mia. She made lots of friends in one day! She is from Nashville, TN.

During math, we finished up our function machines and tested our friend's machines out. We were able to find the "rule" of the machine.

In science, we reviewed our "Parts of the Plant" and "Pollination" songs. These songs help us understand more about plants. We have been studying the plant life cycle. The stages are: germination, growth, reproduction, and death. Each stage is important in a plant's life.

Music

Today in music we tested our recorders. We practiced playing (note) b. When we played (note) b, You have to put your first finger on the first hole,and put your thumb on the thumb hole.

Today at school we wrote in cursive

 Today in writing, we did our first page of cursive! We traced under curve and down curve. Some people were better than others but I'm sure they'll get use to it. It was REALLY fun. There was a page were you had to write cursive letters that you knew, and had to try and read cursive.





 From: Miss. DeCarlo's class

Who Knew!

Today Lahav's mom and dad told us about Hanukkah. he told us where Hanukkah started.

PE Relay

Today in PE, we played a basketball relay. Almost always the red team won. And the yellow  team won  too. Mrs. Oakley was proud of us because there were two classes in the gym (Mrs. Panzl and our class.
And the whole class had fun

This Week We Will Have...

Math: We have been learning our division facts as well as different strategies! The strategies are: equal groups, repeated subtraction, equal groups with remainders, and repeated subtraction with remainders. Students know to represent remainders with a capital R and then the number. We will have our test this Friday, December 10th. Next week we will be talking about algebra and order of operations. This is one of my favorite things in math to teach EVER!! :)

Reading: We have been talking about compare and contrast. Make sure to try to use our strategy at home when you do your reading HW!

Science: We are waiting for our plants to grow! We planted them last Wednesday. We created hypotheses today about what our plants are going to look like when they "grow". How is your plant going to show growth? What are you going to see? 

Writing: We have been visiting poetry and beginning to collect pieces for our anthology. Students will begin our district writing prompt before we leave for break. There is nothing that you need to worry about at home.

Dividing in divsion all over the place!

  Hey! Guess what were already learning DIVISION!!! You accuse us of lying?! Well you are absolutely, positively WRONG!! For your information we really learning division and for proof you can e-mail Miss DeCarlo. We are having lots of fun and love learning new division! Like remainders and equal groups. We learned repeated subtraction to figure out our division problems. Now we need your help! 56 divided by 16= ? Send in the answer! Please! Please! we need your help asap! Thanks, bye!!