Opinion Writing Videos

Important Dates:

April 23-27: No School

April 30 - Library
May 9: early dismissal
May 25: early dismissal
May 28: No School

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Our students did a great job working on all their opinion writing during our unit. Mrs. Mormile's fourth grade class came down to help our class make videos about one of their opinion pieces. The fourth graders and first graders did a great job using adobe spark video.

Here are links to all the videos. Enjoy!

Binti - JFK is the best  

Keigan - Tag is the best recess activity  

Ankita - rice is the best breakfast food  

Kaiden - tenrec is the best pet (yes, it’s a real animal)  

Zayd - JFK is the best  

Lilly - JFK is the best  

Mohamed - best pet is the platypus

Aili - best season is summer

Aryan - Chips are the best

Jenny - JFK is the best school

Chace - Cheerios are the best

Bella - indoor recess is the best

Bishara - Rice is the best

Andrew - Baseball is the best sport

Filson -

Lots of fun and learning!

Important Dates:

April 16: Library
April 23-27: No School
May 25: early dismissal
May 28: No School

Please fill out the family survey.



Literacy:

This week we have focused a lot on our opinion writing unit. On Monday, Mrs. Mormile's class is coming in to help our class create their own videos based on their favorite opinion piece that they wrote. I will find a way to showcase the work when we finish. The opinion pieces are fantastic! The emphasis this week has been on writing our hook and goodbye (introduction and conclusion).

 At the end of last week, we did squeeze in a fun buddy read time with Miss Bushey's class! Our class did a great job reading with expression and talking about the books they read with the kindergartners. The first graders also were able to help the younger students with books they brought in to read. Mrs. Lapointe also came in to join in with the fun!

Math:
Our new math unit builds on all the previous units. We are back to solving story problems (addition and subtraction) and learning new strategies.

This week we started exploring fact families. A fact family are three numbers that can be used to create 4 equations (2 addition and 2 subtraction). 2,3,5 can be made into:

2+3=5

3+2=5

5-2=3

5-3=2

The mathematicians have been discovering rules about fact families in small groups and in partnerships. Then, they are sharing their discoveries with the whole class. 

April 1, 2018

Important Dates:
March 26: Library
April 12 and 13: Parent Teacher Conferences
April 23-27: No School

We've done a lot since our last update!

It was great seeing so many students at the Fun Fair on Friday, March 23. Thanks to everyone who was able to come and support the PTO and our end of the year field trips!

We also filled our heart jar and had a celebration out on the big playground. My favorite part of the celebration was watching Jenny coach kids as they learned to climb the rock wall section of the playground. Good coaching Jenny!

Literacy:

We read The Day the Crayons Quit last week and then wrote letters to convince the crayons to come back.  We also read The Perfect Pet and students then wrote opinion pieces about which pet would be the best for them. Mohamed had us all convinced that the duck billed platypus might make a great pet!

We also did buddy reading with Mrs. Thompson's class. Our class is enjoying sharing their reading with others.

Math:
We finished up our place value unit. Everyone took their place value test on Wednesday. I'm impressed with the hard work the class put into this unit. I'll share the tests with you at parent/teacher conferences.