Weekly Blog Post #2

October 25, 2013

Written by:  Eliza, Lexi, Laney, Elena

Welcome back!  

Announcement:  

The recorders have arrived!!  We are very excited!!

Reading:  

The book fair is over and we all had fun picking out books.  Two of our blogger's parents donated money and we were able to pick out 4 books for Mrs. Parkin's classroom (No Passengers Beyond This Point x 2 and Romeo Blue x 2).  

Mrs. Parkin has started a new read-a-loud book called Top Secret.  It's about a boy, his science project and his mean teacher, Mrs. Green.  

Writing:

We all had fun at the publishing party on Wednesday!  Thank you for visiting our classroom and celebrating our writing.  We loved all the yummy treats!!  Thank you!

Science:

We set up our Aero Garden 7 today.  We will be growing salad greens in our classroom.  They will take 1-7 days to sprout.   Stay tuned for updates and check out the pictures below.

This is the controller.  It turns on and off automatically.

The Aero Garden 7.

There are 7 planter pods growing salad greens.

These are all our questions about the Aero Garden 7.

Math:  

We had our Unit 3 assessment today.  It covered parentheses, algebra, map scales, factors and true & false statement.  Sneak Peak:  Unit 4 will cover decimals, fractions and measurements.  Hold on to your hats!

Specials:

PE:  We are almost done with our tennis unit.

Art:  We are starting symmetrical figures.

Library:  Book Fair!

Music:  We had students visiting from a university to observe our class.  We found out we'll be visiting the Portland Symphony in 2 weeks!!  Very exciting!!

Guidance:  We talked about how certain personality traits affect your mood.

Friendly Reminders:

If you haven't signed up for Fall Conferences, please e-mail Mrs. Parkin.

The bloggers would like to remind everyone that Halloween is next Thursday....BOO!!   A note from Mrs. Parkin - Please do not bring candy in for morning snack.  Bringing in one piece as a lunch treat would be fine.  

Thanks for reading our blog.  Have a great weekend!!