This week we learned about democracy. It means rule of the people, for the people, by the people. We also learned about rights and responsibilities.  In reading, we learned how to use our hands to summarize the main idea and details. In math, we talked about expanded notation with huge numbers!  Today we had a parade with our new t-shirts.
by Nik

This week we had our geography assesment. Also we went to the river. And we started a new non-fiction reading unit and we made a cloth square for a quilt. And we made a 1 thousands chart.  By Gunther

10/23/16 -10/28/16 

  We went to the Milton wind farm on Wednesday and we got to see how a wind farm works.

We had pajama day on Thursday we were so cozy we had a lot of fun.

We went in the cafeteria with Mrs.Randall's class doing a mapping activity.

  We also did a mapping activity where we got to make our own  map .

  

10/10- 10/14

On Wednesday we  had a delayed start and we started the with snack and got to sleep in on a school day.

On Thursday we went on a trip to Mount Philo and it was really fun at the top. We also watched a movie all about making energy.

Today we had a fire drill and had to evacuate. We are also going to the river and will be learning about 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates.

In social studies this week we have started to learn about Vermont history. So far, we have learned about what life was like when there were giant glaciers, and native americans. The Fleming Museum was nice enough to lend us some abniki artifacts. Next we will learn about the Revolutionary War, and when the white people came.



In math we have been finishing up our fractions and decimals unit, so we will have our end of unit fractions survey. Also Mrs. Reinhart and Mrs. Baer came into our class for math on Wednesday to do some work on place value. We have made a giant poster that is now hanging on our classroom wall.

 

In reading we started to research the Revolutionary War. We have just finished our author study reading groups, and now since we are working on history in social studies we are doing history in reading. On Friday, we reviewed how to research, so we will know how to research the Revolutionary War.

In writing we just finished our literary essays and did the voice thread part of our opinion piece. We do not have to do a test on literary essays because we have already done it. We are going to do research essays next.

We have had a great week! :}

In math last week, we were continuing to work on measuring data. All of our class made surveys with partners to ask some other class. Then we compared our class to the class some of us surveyed. We also made bar graphs to represent our data.

          In social studies last week, we started talking about how a bill becomes a law, because we are going to the state house next week. We have to be prepared! We made paper bag trees, to represent the three branches of government. This is an example:

In science, we are still continuing on working about sinking and floating. We also tried to flink something. (Not have any part of the object touching air, but not touching the bottom, either.) We did this by adding plasticene clay to counting bears.

  

We also experimented on which type of fabric would be best for a raincoat. The fabrics tested were wool, nylon, cotton, and a blend. We had a scientists meeting after and concluded that nylon was the best.

  

In writing we are finishing up our personal essays and moving on to persuasive essays.

We are still working on social issues in our book clubs for reading, too.

We had a great week!

Anika Romanko 

         

 This week in math we counted raisins and collected data. We found out that the most raisins in a box is around 85 raisins.


In social studies we talked about rights that we have in the country and the rights and responsibilities that we have as students in our classroom at school.


In writing we started our unit in essay writing, and we made theses and wrote small moments that go with our theses.

In reading we have been reading with our reading groups, and having conversations and answering questions about the books that we're reading, such as who are the secondary characters and why they're in the books, and we answered what the social issues were in our books.


Also this week in science we saw what would would happen if we dropped crayons into water, we were asking if the water would change to the color of the crayon, if the crayon would sink or float and if the paper on the crayon would do anything to the water.


Finally this week Mrs. Ehtesham's son, Jahan came in and showed us pictures of all his nerf blasters, and he talked about the game that he and his friends play in free time at college, called humans vs. zombies. He also showed us a video of him and his friends playing the game while we ate lunch.

                                                   In math we started measuring angles with protractors.
                                                   In writing we are writing essays that mean a lot to us.
                                                   In social studies we talked about rights and responsibilities

In reading we continued our reading groups, we have been working on having rich discussions.

                 In science we have continued our unit on matter.

       In math this week, we used power polygons to make other polygon shapes. We also used smaller polygons to create right angles for bigger quadrilaterals.  

In math menu this week, Mr. Bouchard took half the class to his room to start doing robotics.We are all so excited to start robotics.

This week in science we started chemistry and in chemistry we saw  if solids floated or if they sank.



The most exciting thing this week was P.E. because in P.E. we started our circus unit. In the circus unit,we were juggling,spinning plates,balancing peacock feathers and using devil sticks... and FUN!!!