Save The Date !!!

We are having an author celebration in the LGI on Tuesday, June 9th at 9:15. We will be sharing a piece of our writing with you. This will last about an hour and will include some snacks as well. We hope you can make it.

Fun Times With Our Third Grade Buddies

On April 30th, we got together with our third grade buddies to work on a special project for Mother's Day. We made flowers out of magazines cut into stripes, buttons, and chenille rods. Then we got together again on May 7th, to make the bottles. We used tissue paper with watered down glue to make the stain glass effect on the vases. We got to see our buddies one more time on May 8th, to put everything together. It was fun to be with our buddies to do this project. We were very proud at how we recycled for most of the project by using water bottles, magazines, and buttons. Happy Mother's Day to all of our moms! Thanks for being so special and loving us so much!

The finished product!

How To....

We began writing How To papers this week. First we have to plan what we are going to write about. We had to think of all of the supplies we would need, along with the steps in order to complete the task. Mrs. Kershasky did some really funny examples. We wrote a class paper on How To Tie A Shoe. She followed our directions, but she didn't tie the shoe! We found out that we need to be really detailed when we write down our directions. After we write down our directions, we share with a buddy to see if they can follow the directions. If they can't, we know we need to add some more details. This has been really fun because we also get to illustrate each step.

These are examples of our planning sheets for the How To papers.

Symmetry and Fractions

On May 1st, we had an explorations day in math. We used the geoboards to make shapes with rubber bands. Then, our partner had to divide the shapes equally into two, three, or four parts. Some of us were very tricky!

We also used pattern blocks to cover a bigger shape. For example, after figuring out how many little triangles it took to cover the big triangle, we had to say how much that little triangle was worth. One little green triangle covered up 1/9 of the shape. First graders doing fractions? Yes we can!

Sand, Gravel, and Pebbles

On May 1st, we got to take a closer look at sand, gravel, and pebbles. Mrs. Kershasky had us try to separate the mixture with our hands first, then we were able to use the screens. Using the three different sized screens was so much easier! We were able to make separate the mixture into five different piles: sand, small gravel, large gravel, small pebbles, and large pebbles.

Sharing Our Writing

On April 30th and May 1st we shared our writing for two different purposes. Some of us wanted to share our neat sheet stories, and some of us needed some help from one another for story ideas. We found that it was helpful to bounce ideas off of each other. After we shared, our friends gave us two compliments about our writing. It was really neat to hear how different everyone's ideas are.