Holiday Party fun!

After enjoying a popcorn treat the students made snow-people, completed a candy cane challenge, decorated snow globes, drawing snowman on a paper plate while it's on their head and ended with an ornament toss.  Great party! Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.  

A little STEM thinking to get us going!

Students were given a piece of yarn, a long strip of tape, a coffee filter and Dixie cup.  Their job is to create a device that will keep 3 snap cubes safe when dropped from a height of about 7 feet.  Which design will meet the challenge?

How does sand get to the beach?

Today we did a Mystery Science lesson to investigate how sands gets to the beach! The students worked in groups to pretend they were a roaring river carrying boulders from the mountain top down to the beach.  

#eachkindnesscounts

Goal setting

After meeting with Mrs. Anthes last week all of the students set a goal to focus on drying our opinion writing unit this quarter.  In addition to the posted goal categories, students selected ether spelling or punctuation to focus on in all subjects.  

Happy Veteran's Day

Today we celebrate our Veterans!  Thank you to all who have served our country.  We appreciate you! Our key note speaker was the older brother of Mrs. Mach, and currently serving in the Navy.  This was a cool experience because he needed to Skype in!  Below are some pictures from the assembly.

Happy birthday surprise!

Today I received a breath full bouquet of of flowers from Ms. Green.  I also received a lovely card and many birthday wishes.  Thank you everyone for making the day wonderful!

Even Steven or Odd Tod

Today Ms. Green taught us about Even Steven and Odd Tod to help us learn even and odd.  Each student grouped letter pairs to see which side their name would go.  We have 15 odd and 7 even.

Arrays

Did you know an array is made of rows and columns?

This crate has 4 rows of 8. Can you see the array?  Rows go from left to right like shelves on a bookcase.  Columns stand tall like trees or pillars.  Can you find arrays at your house or in your neighborhood?

So good at math

We are working on math.we just learn to use underlining and circling to help us solve word problems.

Readers are Leaders

 

It is reading time

Yaaaaaaay

learning about grids

we are learning about grids in social studies today.  We turned out carpet into a grid to help us practice!

Leadership Roles are ready to begin for the 2016-17 School Year

Our classroom blog has been in a state of rest for summer break.  We are now back and ready to introduce the new blog leaders of room 18!  Dylan and Shyla will be keeping you up to date on the events in our classroom and school.  Look for their first post later this week!

Math time

 ❎Right now it is math time we are in centers.

Literacy festival May 6, 2016

First stop is to listen to author and illustrator Dan Kilłeen.  Dan is a local writer who includes St. Louis in  his books!   The students were able to view his newest book!  Derrick and the Dinosaurs We also learned about how practice is important to become the best author and illustrator possible.

Stop number 2- Learning about the St. Louis County Library Summer Reading program.

Stop number 3- Pick a book

Each student selected a book of choice to take home.  Who awesome is that!?

Stop number 4- Illustrator Jeff Wiegel

While here the students learned a little about how an illustration needs to match the words.  Together the students helped create the main character, Austin, as a superhero.  They were given background info about the character and then the students told the illustrator how the character should look.  He will be cleaning up then true and sending it to us here at Long!

Stop number 5-  We finished our day by enjoying the books published by all of the classrooms at Long.  The books will be barcoded and should be available for checkout from our school library next year!

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