Welcome to Week 8’s Weekly Rewind: Here we are for another exciting Weekly Rewind! We wrapped up our first Benchmark Advance Unit "Government of the People." We read about many famous activists who have helped shape our country: Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez, and Martine Luther King Jr. We concluded our research on September 11th, wrote a summary of the events and paraphrased our parent interviews. Look at our pictures for the final product. For Math, we ended our Telling Time unit. We have been practicing telling time to the nearest minute, five minutes and hour. We have used number lines to determine the elapsed time. We can label and analyze time words problems. We started using Nearpod to help us understand the events that happened on September 11th! We got our EPIC log in information and we now have access to a variety of books online. Ask about how we can log on at home to practice. Our Fun Friday Challenge was to make a Note Card Fort. The only materials we had were notecards, popsicle sticks and tape. We got to pick our own collaborative groups which made this challenge so much fun. Take a look at our photos and videos from this week.
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Welcome to Week 7’s Weekly Rewind: Here is our Weekly Rewind! We've read about two famous women this week who both fought for the rights of others: Alice Paul and Rosa Parks. We have taken our first 2 Benchmark Advance Assessments - they are challenging but we are getting the hang of them. We started research about Patriots Day - September 11th. We interviewed our parents or someone at home to hear about what they remember on that day. We will summarize their interviews next week for our final projects. In Math, we started telling time to the nearest hour. We got to use Judy Clocks to show our times. We looked at telling time word problems. We could distinguish between and analogue clock and a digital clock. Our new technology for the week is XtraMath. It is an online Math flash card program. We use it in class and well as at home. Ask us how we can log on at home. Our Fun Friday Challenge was to make a balloon tower. The only materials we had were balloons and tape. We created our designs, tested our tower and made improvements to our plan. Take a look at our photos and videos from this week. Welcome to Week 6’s Weekly Rewind: We had a short and fantastic week! We read about governments and how citizens from Fargo came together to create a plan to help with the flooding. Voting and voting rights was our other reading topic. We read about how many people over time have change the voting laws for people. For Math, we worked on telling time to the 5 minutes. We started our first Zearn Unit which was great! Our Fun Friday Challenge was to make the tallest free standing pencil tower. The only materials we had were pencils and tape. It was exciting to see all the different structures. We had a great time listening to each other and working together to make the tallest tower. Take a look at our photos and videos from this week. Welcome to Week 5’s Weekly Rewind: We had lots of fun this week! We took our Benchmark Assessments for both reading and math. We finished our first week of our new reading curriculum, Benchmark Advance. We covered topics such as Main Idea, Key Details, and Cause and Effect. The kids went through their first full week of Reading Rotation Stations. For Math, we wrapped up our Subtraction Unit and took our Telling Time Pretest. We also played a few math review games Rush and Kahoot! I introduce them to the online math game Prodigy - which they seem to be extremely happy about! Our Fun Friday Challenge was to make a Hoop Glider and see who’s would fly the farthest. They had to build their glider, try various ways to throw it and make adjustments as needed. Take a look at our photos and videos from this week. Welcome to Week 4’s Weekly Rewind: We had a great week. We finished our reading routines and procedures for our reading curriculum, Benchmark Advance. We practiced our reading rotation stations and expectations. We learned how to annotate text using annotation marks. We read our first Scholastic News Article. We listened to a few read alouds with some great picture books like: What To Do With A Problem and The Day The Crayons Quit. For Math, we worked on various three digit Addition and Subtraction Strategies. We played a review game called Trashketball and played Subtraction Jeopardy! We are getting more familiar with DreamBox, which they can access from home! We wrote Friday Friendly Letters to someone at home. In their letters they explained all of the awesome skills and concepts they learned this week! Take a look at our photos and videos from this week. Welcome to Week 3’s Weekly Rewind: We worked on and learned so many great things this week! We got new classroom jobs. We had our first “Buy day.” Where the kiddos got to spend all their hard earned “Dvorak Dollars” now renamed by the kids to“Dbucks”! We we were able to pick our own books from the classroom library and put them in our book bins. We got our Readers Workshop folders and learned about the different reading rotation stations that we get to use this year. I introduced graphic organizers to help remember important story elements. A few organizers were a KWL Chart, making predictions with Sticky Notes and Text-To-Text, Text-To-Self Connections. For Math, we wrapped up our Place Value Unit and took our Three Digit Addition Pretest. We made a Place Value Town to help remember Place Value and how to read, say and write numbers. Our Fun Friday Challange was to make the longest chain using only construction paper and tape. It was a lot of fun and Mrs. Dvorak got to see how competitive we really are! The team with the longest chaingot to celebrate and we all had a great time! Take a look at our photos and videos from this week. its our second week of school! Time to get started! Once we did all of our placement tests, we were able to start the real learning! We learned about our Learning Groups. We practice our 5 Classroom Rules. We know who our shoulder and face partners are. We spend a lot of time sharing our ideas and steps with our partners. Mrs. Dvorak explained the Class Score Board to us. When we make positive choices we get to say “oh yea” and we get a happy face. If we make poor choices we say “whaaa whaaaa” and we get a sad face. We also get a chance to make a smart choice! We can’t wait to see what we do next week! Keep coming back to see what we have done!
It was the first week of school, finally! What a week it was. Our classroom looks amazing! It is so bright and colorful. The reading nook is so awesome. We get to sit on fuzzy stool, mats, pillows, benches, and scoop chairs. We also have a fuzzy winged back chair and a wobbly ball! How cool is that. We met new classmates, new teachers and new helpers. We did a classroom scavenger hunt so we would find all of our materials. We got to look through the classroom Library! So many awesome books! We even had homework the first day of school. But the homework binder and monthly calendar keep us organized and ready to go! We played lots of getting to know you games. Mrs. Dvorak tried to remember all of our names, but sometimes names can be tricky. We will give her another week. We completed placements tests to see what we remember from last year. We can’t wait to see what we learn this year. We did our first Fun Friday Challenge where we had to hold up a dictionary using only contradiction paper and tape. This was a tricky challenge but two teams we able to complete it. We wrote in our Writer’s Notebooks for the first time. We created a silly story using Rory’s Story Cubes. It had to write about an alien, a lightbulb and the letter L. Our stores I were great and we made everyone laugh. Take me a look at our pictures and videos from the first week of school. |
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March 2019
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