Week 30

Next week, on Thursday night, is our Convention Of Learning. We have been working hard to get ready to have guests in the classroom to share our learning with! We have been taking on the role of author and illustrator by creating our very own stories, some of which you might have read at parent teacher conferences. Together we have gone through the process of character and plot development and we are inviting you to join us for “Author’s Chair.” An event in which our young writers wish to share their final products with an audience. We have revised, edited and published our work based on constructive peer and teacher feedback and now we would like to share our process with you and receive your feedback! We are always looking to continue to develop our skills in writing and as we move into learning about and writing our own fairytales. We look forward to reading to you! We have also added in some technology pieces that are really cool! First we had to write an advertisement for our books, kind of like a summary. Then we got iPads and filmed each others ads. Next, Mrs. Craig came into the classroom to give us a crash course on how to use Aurasma, an app on the iPads. With this app, when you put your device like an iPad or a cell phone over a trigger picture then a video pops up! It's really neat and we can't wait to show you how it works next Thursday!

  

  

Some of us even used some props to jazz up our videos! Don't we look great?

  

We had a fire drill this week. We did a great job of following our emergency procedures and exiting the school quickly and quietly. Way to go room 7/8!

We had a Roots of Empathy baby visit this week. Our babies sure are getting big and strong!

We had two birthdays on Monday! Happy Birthday A & F!!

In gym we are learning about skipping. We had an assembly about Jump Rope for Heart, ask me what this organization does and how I can help. One of our very own was in the assembly and did an awesome jump rope routine! It was so cool!

  

We continued to work on our self portraits. We got into the paint this week and started to paint lines onto our portraits that express ourselves and our personalities.

  

  

  

  

We learned a new strategy for division called repeated subtraction. Ask me to solve this problem using our new strategy.

20 divided by 4 = ______ 

On Wednesday we got to play Focus because we were all here and we had a super good classroom clean up.

Room 7 also went outside for buddy reading while Room 8 was in music singing their hearts out.

    

Until next week,

Love,

Room 7 & 8