Tigers

Tigers live in sorounding islands some tigers are white and some tigers are black and orange, the white Tigers are coled White bangle Tigers,and the Black and orange Tigers are coled Bangle Tigers,and they are the bigest cats on the world.

Alex

Hope you like the video the video is about aaevery thing i lorned about Tigers

100 day

On the 100th day in are class we had a100 collton .We sortd them. After we had free time for ten mintentes .Everybody likedAlexs.We got one candy.we had been counting from the first day of school .Today we get to put the dollar on the calender.

By:Asia

100 Day

On 100 day we ate candy. and we had to play weth are tings that we breng. and we had to go to the compeore lab .and we had to go to reses. .
and then we had to go to the gym
by berenice,

100day.

On 100daywehaf to bring100 thing tosgolonthe100thdayofsgoland peawithfres.

Angelique

100 day of school

Evrybody brought 100 things. We all had fun.-Alejandro

Knights projeckt

Robby and i reasherched about knights.It was fun.We learned interesting things.One thing we learned is that knights through people on the wall and a daed animal to spreed desies.


Tanner.

100s day

For 100s day I brot 100 madnedex ( magnex).

Isiah

I made a vedo abat the liberty bell

Knights Projeckt

Tanner and I reaseached knights.We laerned some intresting things. One thing we learned was that knights flung dead people and dead animals over the wall to spread desies. We did a power point. I am sure Tanner liked it. I liked it to.Me and Tanner reaserched knights. It was fun.

Robby.

reading a chapter book

A chapter book is arsome! and inttaing (entertaining)

Mitchell

100th day of school.

On 100th day I brange 100 knedeckeds. Isiah brot 100 magnedecks.Asia brot 100 pennys.Kiara brot 100 peses of candy.& Alex brot 100 Anamels.

Ben

recess

On Recess I played Halo2.I played the part, where I face the Broot lord.I was the arbater.

Joey

Beads

I made a neckles with 10 beads and it has pinck,blou,white ,of colers.

Morgan

100 day

We got candy and we played with the colections and sorted ours.

Siavash.

100 day

100 day was fun. We got to eat, candy it was sour.

We got to play with Alex's toys.

by.Adriana ,Kiera

class blog by Ben

reading: I read chapter books.
writing: I wrote poems.
math: We did a paper about how to figure out what things cost.
art: We painted our clay dinasours, I painted mine red and blue.

Asia

Reading we read at are desks quit .Ms.p. should us her name . Centers we did alot of work Mrs.stekmen was really helping out.

Ben's daily class blog

reading: Today at reading we put sticky notes, & read books.
writing: In writing we wrote our poems, typed them and then printed them. My poem is called recess.
science/social studies: I did Ben & Jerry's, & learned about the ice cream in the old days.
math: We learned about symmetry, which is, things that are the same on each side.
Art: I thought of how to paint our clay Dinasors.

Daily Class Blog 1-28-2008

Today we had quite a day of learning.
Our morning started out with a mini lesson about poetry. We talked about things we have noticed in poetry. It is funny, cool, sometimes rhymes, uses descriptive words, and has interesting punctuation.
In Centers and Guided reading we focused on a few different things:

• Blogging
• Poetry
• Word Families (like -ick can be made into sick or pick)
• Telling Time with Analog Clocks
• Letter Teams (like the sound -ight makes)

Writing was also enjoyable today as we continued our study of poetry. I shared a poem of mine that was published a few years ago and that excited the kids to begin writing their own poetry. Each student is expected to publish a poem by the end of the week.

We reviewed symmetry today in math and are making our way to the end of this unit about Shapes, Halves, and Symmetry. Students will be tested on this information next week and then we will start the next math unit about Time Lines and Telling Time.

Economics has been the topic of our social studies hour recently. We are learning a bunch of new vocabulary like: consumer, producer, goods, services, opportunity cost, and scarcity.

Students are using their own flash drives almost daily now to save their work. They have become quite proficient on the computers. I have decided to not do another typing club at school, but would recommend that you have your child continue to practice typing skills at home.

I am still hearing minimal feedback about holding another blogging class for parents and students. Hopefully in the coming weeks I can decided what to do about that, because I would love to have students doing the daily blog. I believe that students really internalize their learning if they have to post about what they did in school.

Keep up the hard work. I appreciate your support.
-Mrs. Biles

Research Projects

During our Reading Workshop days we have started learning how to research on our own. Students are using books and the computers to find information about the topic of their choice. They are expected to keep track of their learning and then share their learning with the class. They can choose to write a book, poem, play, kidspiration web, or a "show" on the computer. This was the first group to write a play and I think it turned out fantastic.

Mr. Shape-O

Mr. Shape-O visited our class today. He helped us learn about halves and symmetry. He let us cut some toys in half. It was fun. He taught us how congruent was a synonym of symmetry. He cut toys in half so boys and girls could have fun.

Fantastic Learning 1-11-2008

Today we had some great learning. We read poems, played whole group literacy games, wrote our stories and even found out that we are writing with a real purpose because our first published book from Lulu.com arrived. It was a book we wrote as a class about writers workshop. We also learned more about doubling rectangles and multiplication. We excelled at describing our rectangles to each other. Today we finished our Statue of Liberty photo stories and they were most excellent. =-)

Daily Class Blog 1-10-2008

READING: Today we got 3 or 4 books and we read silently at our desks.

WRITING: We wrote in our books with the things we had on our sheets.

MATH: We studied rectangles.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL Studies: We learned about the statue of liberty.

SPECIALS:We practiced on our lynx pictures.-Kiera

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty by Tanner and Robby.

Daily Class Blog 1/9/08

Reading: We got 3 or 4 books. We went to our seats and read. Some of us partner read. Some of us went to the library to check out books.

Writing: We got our supplies. We wrote in our books. We are writing about all sorts of things.

Math: We played a game. We had to cut out rectangles and pretend they were chocolate bars. We picked one of the rectangles and pretended to eat them. We answered questions about our activity.

Social Studies: We did a page about the Statue of Liberty. We went on the computer to find the answers.

Art: We practiced drawing our lynx for the yearbook contest. We each decided on our own background or border and practiced that, too.

-Isiah

Daily Class Blog - Jan. 8, 2008

Reading: Mr. Stroup came in and read us Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. We each got a copy of the book.

Writing: We planned out how we were going to do writing. We wrote our stories. Some of us started new books.

Math: We played Guess My Secret Rule with Shapes.

Social Studies: We learned about the Statue of Liberty. Tanner is as tall as the Statue of Liberty's nose. (4 ft. 6 in.)

Specials: Art - We are doing a contest for the yearbook. We are drawing a picture of a lynx.

-Isiah

Welcome Back!

I am so excited to be back in school, and today we had a fantastic day.

Today was a "warm-up" type day where we reviewed what school behavior and routines look like and feel like. We were blessed with a reading of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse written by Kevin Henkes and read by Mr. Stroup. It was fun to have him in our room first thing this morning sharing a story with each of us. Every student got a copy of the book and we practiced intonation (sounding like the character while reading).

During writing workshop we were able to relax into writing stories that we were already working on or new stories. Some stories are about Christmas, X0Bot, Sea Animals, and Pokemon.
We reviewed sorting by visual characteristics in math today and will be moving on to learning about fractions in the next few days.
Social studies is really exciting this week. We are learning about symbols of America and this week we are focusing on the Statue of Liberty. We explored the Statue of Liberty by watching a few short videos, reading books, and exploring some interactive websites. Students also got the opportunity to learn how to use their flash drives for the first time. If you haven't sent a flash drive in with your child please do so if you can. We will be using them from this point onward quite often.

Thinking Forward:

• If your child has been invited to the morning reading class please remember to come Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8AM.
• Please send a flash drive to school with your child if you have not yet.
• Our reading focus this month will be: schema (background knowledge and connections) and fluency (reading like we talk).
• Our writing focus this month will be: writing complete sentences (capitals at the beginning of a sentence and for proper nouns) and beginning to write with paragraphs.
• Our math focus this month will be: fractions and geometry.
• Our social studies focus this month will be: symbols of the United States (Statue of Liberty and Mt. Rushmore) and beginning economics.

• I am throwing around the idea of how to do typing club again. I am trying to figure out a schedule that would work and if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear suggestions.
  
• I would also like to put some feelers out and find out if I offered another "How to Blog" class for students and parents would there be any takers, and would before or after school be better?
  

I would love to hear from more of you. Feel free to pipe up here in the comments section or in your own post.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe and happy night last night. I can't wait to see you next week!
-Mrs. Biles