January 24

Just a quick post to share our self portraits and our Causes of the Revolution glogs. The kids did a great job!

Classroom happenings!

Reading- We are starting a new Read Aloud Wonder by R.J. Palacio. check out the review about the book on YouTube.  It's going to be a great book! We are also completing mid year reading assessments. Writing-We are working on a writing piece about Loyalists and Patriots and what side we would choose if we lived during the time of the American Revolution. I think we can really relate now that we have revolted as a class against the Starbursts!! We will publish on our blogs, so make sure to read our finished pieces and comment on them! Our class will also be participating in an Arbor Day writing contest. We will begin working on these this week!. Math-We are still working on Unit 5, Landmarks and Large Numbers.  Content- We are sharing our Glogster projects on the Causes of the Revolution (link above), we learned about the Declaration of Independence, exactly what it means, how it was written, and how we celebrate the signing each year on July 4th.  Technology-Check out our Glogs on the Causes of the Revolution!! We are going to be trying something brand new to me called Aurasma to go with our wax museum projects. If you are interested in seeing a recording of your child's wax museum presentation and you have a smart phone, IPad, Ipod, etc., you can go ahead and download the app and I'll send more information when we start video recording! Should be fun!!

Lots of dates will be coming up in March for our wax museum, field trip, due dates for scrapbook, etc. I'll continue to add dates to our class calendar.