Field Trip to Baxter and Glass Jar

Information regarding our upcoming field trip to Baxter Conservation Area has been sent home in the agenda. We are looking for volunteers so please sign up as soon as possible and thanks in advance!

Thank you for bringing in a glass jar (with holes and your name) for our animal unit next week.  If you haven't brought one in yet...please do by Monday:)

Inferring with For the Birds, Math and Kahoot!

Today we watched the short film 'For the Birds' and used our inferring to answer these questions!

In Math, we used turn and talk to go over what we know about money.  This is what we came up with:

We continue to explore perimeter and watched this music video!

Today we played a Simple Machine Kahoot (in Team Mode).  We made some mistakes but learned a lot too.  You can try it out yourself right here:)

Inferring with Fireflies!

Today we read the story 'Fireflies!' and were asked to use our inferring skills to figure out how the boy felt at the end of the story.  We had lots of good ideas and really used this difficult reading strategy.  This class rocks at inferring!

The Best Part of Me

In case you missed it at the open house, here is our Best Part of Me!

Dances

Here are the awesome dances that students prepared in groups during gym time!

Simple Machines Homework

Try this out tonight!

Catholic Education Week

This week is the start of Catholic Education Week at St. Cecilia.  This afternoon, we had a liturgy in the gym and were introduced to the Syrian family that we helped during our Lenten Project.  Don't forget to drop by on Thursday morning (8 to 9 am) to check out what we have been up to in our class:)
In Science, we are working on creating a toy that uses three simple machines.  We created a success criteria together and broke up into our groups to discuss our toy.  Students were asked to sketch out their toy and write down the materials they will need to build it at school.  They are encouraged to use recycled materials like cereal boxes, plastic water bottles and paper towel/toilet paper holders. I can provide tape, glue (glue gun), string and fasteners! I can't wait to see the finished products.

In math we are exploring perimeter and used non-standard units of measurement to measure items in the classroom.