12/16/14

by:  Gabby

We did math for to day.We are all most finished with  your presentss.We did dictaition.Mrs.Johnson
sun is sick.We do not have speling tes.

We spent our math time in the computer lab working on addition and subtraction with regrouping using a computer program.  Mrs. Bruno also met with small groups to help with regrouping.  We worked on graphing to create a great Christmas picture, while practicing using coordinates.

Skills Agenda for Dec. 15

Skills Agenda for Dec. 15

 

 



12/10/14

by:  Joey

We are leaning about crismas bifrint stats.We did sinters.It is mrs.johnsons birth day.We leand adawt idely in mrs.jonsons cllas and we leand geminy in mrs bronos cllas.We trid bread in mrs Jonsons cllas.We abawt old befona.We herd bifrint songs in mrs Brno.

We had a great morning "traveling" around the world to learn about Christmas customs, traditions, and celebrations in Germany and Italy.  Tomorrow, we'll visit India and Mexico!  : )

12/9/14

by:  Joshua

Today in Mrs.Johnsons room we had a sub.We read about countryes and drew pitchers.We made a card for Mrs.Johnson because it was her birthday tomarow.We not do centers today.In Mrs.Brunos room we are going to the computer lab.Tonights homework is going to be different.

Today was fun in science.  We continued our study of soils by looking at decomposers . . . specifically earthworms.  We observed them with and without soil and in the light and the dark.  We named our worms and added them to our compost pile!  : )

Skills Agenda for Dec. 8

12/5/14

by:  Ella

today is friday .We finished our santa helper .We watched Brain pop. We took a spelling test.  We are going to take a math 4 today test. today we are doing centers. Today is friday freeze!Mrs.bruno gave us cooral. We finishist our writing

12/3/14

by:  Bragan

We checked over math for today.We had a geust come and read to us.We read a book called the Owl Moon.We took a reading test. we took a gramer sheet.Tomarrow is colonial day.

12/2/14

by:  Ayden

we did rainbow spelling. we did math for today today. we read lizard and the sun. we went to mrs johnsons carpet and read diffrent books .some of us read big books we read a book about soiland dirt.we have a spashl. we are are going to the red hall computr lab.

11/20/14

by:  Carson

We did centers in mrs johnsons room.All of us finished are turkey writeing.Iin mrs johnsons room we read a book called lets look for fosslels.we whent offer math 4 today. some of us whent to the liberry. nest thursday is thanksgiving. we did a turkey papper.we have two days of scool nest week.

11/19/14

by:  Katherine

We did chinters. We did math for today.ore class did turkeys.ore class read a book of finding rocks.we finist are turkey storeys.we are gowing to do chinters in miss brunos room to.we are back on are scedwle.in sinchswe are talking abut colonle people.it is very cold out side out there is frost.yesterday we wacht are play after are play.thanks giving is all most here!next week is thanks giving.

We're so very glad to be back to a normal routine.  We had normal-length classes today, with normal instruction.  We didn't know what to do with ourselves since our schedule has been off for the past four school days!!!  Glad to be settling back in. 

We did some great work in math centers today and look at some awesome Colonial artifacts!!!!  Some of the artifacts were a preview of our upcoming Colonial Day!!!!

Skills Agenda for 11/17/14 and 11/24/14

 



Skills Agenda for 11/12/14

 

 

11/7/14

by:  Karis

In Mrs.Johnsons room we practiced the play.We fineshed up our writing work shop.Todays friday!In Mrs.Johnsons room she told us to take 2 ar tests a week.We had a sppelling test.Karis is our good citizen.We returned our report cards.We are going to music today.We took our math for today quiz.We had 15 spelling words and 2 dictation sentenses.Alot of people are checking out today.To night people are taking pictures with santa.We have a 4 day week end!In the lunchroom there is tickets to the game.Were going to do centers.Thanksgiving is coming up!It was cold this morning.We switched seats in Mrs.Johnsons room.

11/6/14

by:  Evan

  to day we praeractice are play we finished are writing all of us went to mrs shepered some of us went to the libury.

What great math the kids completed today.  I'm so proud of their regrouping abilities.  We're making a few careless errors in computation, but that can be fixed!  We worked on a Colonial word problem, then continued our discussion of how our country was founded.  Today we discussed the events leading up to the American Revolution.  It was a great day of learning!!!!

11/5/14

by:  Audrey Kate

Today in Mrs.Jonsons room we copyed our storys on piese of paper.We are going to publish our books.We took our test on pioneers.

Today, we did math centers, complete with Colonial word problems, Thanksgving math games, SS vocabulary, and regrouping practice.  We also moved from talking about explorers like Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus to the first colonists landing in the New World.  Great discussions and questions all day!!!!

11/4/14

by: Molly Brown

Today Paine Primary singers went to the music room. In Mrs.Johnons room we got our play parts.We checked over math 4 today.In Mrs. Johnsons room we made sheets what were thankful for.We did a phonics sheet.We read a weekly reader.Some of us got to go to Mrs Sheperds table.

What an exciting day today was. . . play parts were assigned. Our parents got emails about what our costumes would lool like. We can't wait for our play!

In math, we continued to work on subtraction with regrouping. It seems to be going well. We're working with two-digit numbers right now, but we'll move on to three-digit numbers soon! :) We also did a Colonial word problem and discussed what our country looked like hundreds of years ago, before Europeans settled the land. We discussed the importance of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus as explorers.

11/3/14

by:  Alleigh

It is November!it is Katherines birthday.on Friday we made colonial jurnals.we read How many days to America.we did a reading sheet.We took our fluency test.Tomorrow we are going to get our part in the Thanksgiving play.We got a new math 4 today.We got new spelling words.we got new seets.We are talking about goverment.we hope you had a great halloween!!

We began double digit subtraction with regrouping today in math.  Some of us struggled some, but we know we'll get better with practice!!!  We also talked about the founding of our country!

Skills Agenda for 11/3/14

 

 

10/31/14

by:  Nolan

In Ms. Johnson room soom of us got to go to the library.We also read a book called The Vanshing Pumpkin.We worked on a sheet about the book.Today is Halloween!Somebody came to read to us.All of us read sheets we made.We did dicdateshen sentens instead of spelling words.The last day of October is today.The first trymester is over.Tomarow a reading chalindge starts.Have fun trick-or-treating!

10/30/14

by:  Joshua

Mrs.Bruno had to go to the inermedit side so we had to stay in Mrs.Jhonsons room.We pracktisted our play that we are going to try out for.We checked over math for today in Mrs.Johnsons class.
TOMAROWS HALLWEEN.

Today, we practiced lots of 2- and 3-digit problems.  Our social studies word problem also took us into a great discussion about Congress and equal representation for states.  We had lots of good discussions about what was and was not fair in our government.

10/29/14

by:  Gabby


We did math for to day.We read loge ago and to day.We did a halloween seet.
FRIDAY IS HALLOWEEN`.

We had great centers today in Mrs. Bruno's room.  We practiced "Funny Numbers" by playing matching and memory.  We worked a social studies government word problem.  We also played Halloween math games and worked double- and triple-digit computation problems with Mrs. Bruno.  In social studies, we talked about the three branches of government and watched the Schoolhouse Rock video "Three Ring Circus."

10/28/14

by:  Joey

In ms jonesonsens room diffrint books.We dont haf to do moon jrnls any mar.We finishd our honted houes.We chat ovr math for today.Wer going to mosik.We did midl and and poser.

10/27/14

Happy Monday!

We read "At Play Long Ago and Today" in Mrs. Johnson's room.  She informed us that we'd be looking at this history of our country in the coming days and weeks and getting ready for a play.   We completed a T-chart to compare two time periods. We also talked about common and proper nouns in grammar.

In Mrs. Bruno's room, we learned what to do if the ones place numbers added up to MORE than 9.  It's just like the Funny Numbers we worked on last week!  We also talked about three different types of government:  local government, state government, and national government. 

Skills Agenda for 10/27/14

 

 

10/24/14

by:  Ella

to day is friday yah  mrs. coch came we took a spelling test we rote about a hoted house  we turned in our moon journel  we have a math 4 today test today we lisen to mr. wiskers hollween we get our ruport cad today

10/23/14

by:  Bragan

We are going to the computer lab this afternoon.We did math for today.Somebody nocked over our expearament.We did a fonix skill.Birthday club is going away.We did centers.Its ELLAS birthday.We are going to look at a REAL space shuttle.

In class today, we're visiting the computer lab to take a space quiz on Socrative, then practicing our math facts on Math Magician.  We'll also complete a space word problem and talk extensively about space travel.  We're wrapping up our study on space tomorrow to move into social studies.

10/22/14

by:  Ayden
mrs johnson got a new stunet. we did math for to day. some of us got to go to the libray .we did ceters in mrs johnson class .we did a poster about plantets. some of us got to fix word problens with mrs sheperd. we did righting work shop. some of us got to right on dry erase bards.

10/21/14

by:  Carson

we had mrs pruit as a sub. we cheted 2 days of math .we did not.chek are evapertion.we have bithday
book club.we did a fall paket in mrs johnsons room.we read a pasege aubot pluto. some of us
got to go to the liberey.we did a pluerle noun sheet.it is october.we are don with fitnise
testing.

We are finishing up our Aurasma projects today.  We hope to have them up in the hall for tonight's math night.  We'll also invite our parents to the school soon to come see the culmination of our hard work!

10/20/14

Today has been a busy and productive day.  We started a new Math 4 Today week this morning. We also took our math fact fluency tests this morning.  In Mrs. Johnson's room, we read a story called Postcards from Pluto.  We also worked on a 3-2-1 comp sheet with a partner.

In Mrs. Bruno's room, we completed a model drawing sheet for our word problem.  It will be hung in the hall, and illustrate the word problems we created.  We worked with our partners to practice what we would film for our Aurasma.

Skills Agenda for 10/20/14

 

 

10/17/14

by:  Shaw

We had assembly. we had a bracin dril.We did a new cind of swop.we had are mathfortoday quiz.We  toock are spelling test.We had to clean out our descs.

10/16/14

by:  Karis

we got to be dotectivs.We had extra time this morning so we got to do math migishian!AND THAT NEVER HAPPENS!Our class get to go to computer lab.Our spechial is music.This is our last day with math 4 today.Some of us got to go to library.We had a new kind of centers.We get to do math migion by our selfs today.We learnd about the moon and how it goes around earth.We made cards for josh yesterday.We did a plour noun sheet with Mrs.Ray.We read a weekly reader with Mrs.Johnson.We are doing a project on water.Mrs.Johson read a book to us.

In math, we visited the computer lab to work on Splashmath.  Mrs. Johnson's class scored 85.1%.  Can't wait to see what Mrs. Bruno's class scores!  We also worked on our technology skills open and close different tabs by also using our Math Magician site and Brainpop site to do some work.

We completed word problems today and also continued to discuss space topics.

We're sorry that we didn't blog yesterday, but we spent our normal blogging time to make cards for our sweet friend Josh, who has been in the hospital all week.  We're looking forward to having him return to us soon!

10/14/14

by:  Katherine

We did math for today.Story town for home work.We did a work seet abuat the soler sistum and did qustins.We did math for today for yester day and today.on wensday We do are last test on finist teasting.we go to library or carsorlor today.where finisht with weather.we have new spelling words and we have 10 not 15 yay.today maybe ice creem day.we did wighing work shop and looked at great endings.

Today we worked on yet another way to add 2- and 3-digit numbers . . . vertically.  Many of us liked this way best of all, but some are still choosing to branch problems horizontally.  I always tell the kids, "I don't care how you get there . . . just get there!"  They know that it doesn't matter which way is their preferred way to solve problems, as long as they can prove to me that they know what they're doing!  : )

Skills Agenda for 10/14/14

 



10/10/14

by:  Evan

We aet a green apple and a red  apple  We are doing fitnis friday  We are stuty earth and m oon

We introduced our two-week homework project, the moon journal, today.  Students will observe what the moon looks like in the night sky, how/when you can/can't see it, and the name of the phases it cycles through.  This is one of my favorite projects, and the kids seem excited about it, too.

Centers went very well today, too.  They were almost all science-related, instead of math-related.

We're excited about our upcoming long weekend!!!!  Happy Columbus Day!

10/8/14

by:  Audrey Kate

We checked over math 4 today.We did a scarecrow project.We did a science project with Mrs.Bruno.It's almost halloween.We did a nouns project.Were talking about weather.We did writing workshop.We took a raeding test.we read a book .

We were so fortunate to have a guest speaker with us today.  Mrs. Leit is doing her internship at our school, and she's a former meteorologist.  She showed us pictures from when she did some storm chasing.  They were awesome!  We enjoyed having her teach us some "extras" about weather today!  :)

10/7/14

by:  Molly Brown

We did a new kind of centers.We did our like to be little paper. Our class did a scarecrow story.We did a before midle and after chart.We talked about weather.We read weekly reader.A lot of people went to Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Johnson.Our speshle is art today.We learned water cycle song.

Another hard-working day of hardly even taking a breath!!!  The kids continued to work really hard on their word problem books today.  We began to get the word problems typed on the page and select the formats and colors of our pages, but we still have a LONG way to go!!!!

We also learned about meteorologists and a few weather tools today!

10/6/14

by:  Alleigh

We got new spelling words.We are almost fineshed with our I like to be lttle paper.we are talking about weather.Our class is almost fineshed with our fitnes testing.We learned two new math facts.We got a new sheet of math for today.

Mondays are often hard because of it being a short day, but we really accomplished alot today!  In math, we learned a shorter way to do our branching problems for addition and subtraction.  Now, students may choose one of three ways to solve our two- and three-digit problems!!!

We also discussed the definition of weather and some different types of weather.

Skills Agenda for 10/6/14

10/3/14

by: Nolan

It is Friday freez!We finely free of math for today.We are colerd a scarecrow.We did are gramer test and are spelling test.We are soon going to cut the scarecrows out.Today we did not do centers in Mis.Johnsons class.We read The scareist scarecrow and Scarecrow.We got fitnes testing today.We got music for a specil.

10/2/14

by:  Gabby

We did math for today.We did centers.We did I like to be little.Wmpiament.More fitnes testing.

In math, we chose a topic for the upcoming math books we're writing.  The two topics we voted on wer sports and vacation.  Each student got to choose on which of the topics they wanted to work.  Students were then paired up and began brainstorming ideas for word problems.  Mrs. Bruno was very pleased with their work today, and she looks forward to continuing this project next week.  She can't wait for the parents to see their children's hard work!!!!

10/1/14

by:  Joey

We did sintrs.We chet math for tuday.We did pishrs.We workt on jry uras bords.Today is fins test.We took a test at mrs.jonsons room.It is the forst day of october.

9/26/14

by:  Bragan

we read a solid and liquid book.we did 3.2.1 all together.we also did writing work shop.we did not do centers today.Tonight is homecomeing yay.

9/30/14

by:  Joshua

we did dryerase boords with mrs.ocorner.We read a book with
mrs.johnson.

Great day today!  We worked on subtraction of two-digit numbers without regrouping.  Everyone had the option of choosing a challenge three-digit problem, too.  We worked on science word problems, which led us into our water cycle topic.  We learned the words evaporation, condensation, and precipitation and even put those words in a song!  Lots of learning going on today!!!!

9/29/14

by:  Ella

we read a book about clouds. we finisht our gramer sheet . the book fair has is gon.the strateay

We have had a great day today.  Behavior was much better today, making learning much easier!!!  In math, we capitalized on our how well we did in our subtraction without regrouping challenge problem last Friday.  Mrs. Bruno was so pleased with how well we implemented the skills we already knew from addition branching into our subtraction branching before she'd given us any instruction Friday.  Today, we truly learned how to subtraction branching.  It looks like we'll be great at it.  We completed a word problem about our new science topic, and discussed the water cycle.  Can't wait for tomorrow!

Skills Agenda for September 29

9/25/14

by:  Ayden

we did centers in mrs johnson room. we talk about lava. rote on dry a racebords we read 

We read Twister in Mrs. Johnson's room.  We also finished our Fall Fun about the things that you see in the fall.

In math today, we practiced branching problems, looked over our homework, and completed a solids/liquids word problem.  We also journaled about solids and liquids.

9/24/14

 

by:  Carson

we  did  centers in mrs  johnsons room. we took a test in mrs johnsons room. we did writeing work  shop. 10:30

We had a great day in math and science.  We reviewed our branching strategies and worked a solids and liquids word problem.  We also reviewed the properties of liquids before we got to get our hands on 7 different liquids.  We checked plain water, colored water, cooking oil, liquid soap, corn syrup, detergent, and fabric softener for properties such as color, transparency, viscosity, foaminess, and bubbliness.  We had lots of fun!

9/23/14

by:  Josh

We did centers. we did writing .Book fair is here. We read amasing grace.

In Mrs. Bruno's class, we went to the computer lab to work on Socrative and SplashMath.  Mrs. Johnson's class scored 82%, and we're waiting to see if Mrs. Bruno's percentage can top that.  We studied more properties of liquids in science.  We learned about bubbly, foamy, translucent, and viscous liquids today.  We'll put our knowledge of those properties to good use tomorrow in centers!!!!

9/22/14

We started a brand new week of Math 4 Today.  We also viewed Mrs. Bruno's website to know where to find important information and links.

In math, we took our timed tests and looked at our focus strategy of the week.  We'll be working with adding and subtracting 9s.  We also practiced adding two-digit numbers with branching.  In science, we discussed solids and liquids.  We learned WHAT a liquid is:  matter that doesn't keep its shape, but it DOES keep its volume.  Before we start observing liquids, we also learned some of the properties of liquids.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we did writing workshop to finish up our sunglasses sheet.  We also read a matter book in Mrs. Johnson's room to go along with our science topic.  We learned a fun fact that glass is NOT a solid, but actually a LIQUID.  We also learned another fun fact that there are actually FOUR states of matter!  Do you know the fourth?  : )

Skills Agenda for September 22

 

 

9/19/14

by:  Karis

we read the rest of the solids and liquids book.We took our spelling test.Today is electtronic day!Its Alleighs birthday.We got to do wrighting work shop.The book fair is coming up.Shaw got good citizen.We get to check out the preveiw of the book fair.We got to talk about solids,liquids,and gas.We did our 3 2 1 sheet.

9/18/14

 

 

 

 

by: Shaw

we did ceters. we worked on speling with mrs sheaperd. we did riting workshop. we did a words. to marouw we have to turn in fluence folder. we did not go to the liybrery.

Today was a very interesting and learning-filled day. We are a little behind in science, so we spent the majority of our block on solids and liquids, with some math skills thrown in here and there. We reviewed the properties of solids, then sorted solids into a Venn diagram based on whatever properties the students wanted. Some chose to sort the solids based on flexiblity or rigidity. Others sorted the solids based on whether they were transparent or opaque. Still others chose smooth/rough, flat/3-D, colored/colorless, and corners/no corners. After exploring the properties of solids, groups of students were challenged to use what they knew about the properties of solids to build the TALLEST tower possible with the solids they were given (card board, straw, aluminum foil, paper cup, rubber band, and popsicle stick).  We measured each group's tower with a yardstick and charted it on a graph.  Mrs. Johnson's tallest tower was 8 inches, and Mrs. Bruno's tallest tower was 15 inches.  GREAT learning, thinking, and questioning going on today!!!  : )

9/17/14

by:  Katherine

we did centers today .we olso witing wrok shop and boggled. some of us went to the libreay . we took a reading test.mrs. johnson class got centers we will do it later in the day.we havet to sit out for 4 min for tallking in the hall. we just finsht snack.

We are so glad to finally be back on a normal schedule.  What great learning has been going on in my room today.  We did centers in math, and I worked with small groups on a very new topic:  branching addition problems.  I enjoyed watching the kids take things they already know and apply it to new situations.  I also loved watching their little minds work when coming up with questions in science about solids.  I think science really intrigues these kids, which leads them to ask excellent questions!  What a great group of students!

9/16/14

One more crazy day, and then we should be back to normal.  Mrs. Johnson's class had Global Scholar this morning, which meant we STILL couldn't have a normal schedule!  :(

In math today, we learned a cool new game called SCOOT.  We went around the room answering questions in just a few minutes.  Then, Mrs. Bruno dinged a wand, and we all swapped places.  We can't wait to play again.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we did writing workshop.  We're making a picture and a story to go with it.  We also read books about solids and liquids.

9/15/14

Happy Monday!  Due to a very crazy schedule today, we didn't have time to let a student blog today.  We began our day with a fire drill, followed by an hour-long Global Scholar test in the computer lab, and then trying to actually get some teaching done in our rooms.  We combined to work on language arts and math.  In Mrs. Bruno's room, we learned that "branching" was a special type of number bond that used expanded form as the "branches" of the number.  We'll be practicing that a lot in the coming days.  We also worked on our fact fluency strategy of the week, making tens.


Whew!  What a day!  :)

Skills Agenda for September 15th

 

9/12/14

by:  Evan                                                                       
we finished ar people we took  our spelling test we  took a gramer 

We took our Math 4 Today quiz and chapter math test today.  We also learned a new game called "I Have . . . Who Has?"  We ran around trying to see how quickly we could review our place value skills!  Mrs. Johnson's class finished in 14:27, and Mrs. Bruno's class finished in 13:02.

Congrats to Alleigh, our good citizen for the week!

9/11/14

by:  Audrey Kate

Today we did  centers  and  a  sheet  about  frogs and toads.We went in the hall and saw sheet.

We practiced ordering numbers and reviewed skills for tomorrow's test.  We also observed solids and learned the word "properties."

9/10/14

by:  Molly Brown

we took our reading test  and we also did centers too. Some went to the Libray.We compared alone and together

In math, we did centers.  One center worked on our Doubles + 1 strategy.  Center 2 was a fact fluency game.  We worked on SplashMath at Center 3, and Mrs. Bruno worked with us on word problems at  our last center.

9/9/14

by:  Alleigh

We went to Mrs.Johnsons room and read frog and toad and we also did centers.Some of us got to get on the computers on the computers we read poisonest dart frog.it was fun!

from Mrs. Bruno:  In math, we discussed our strategy of the week again today.  We also reviewed number bonds and had a math talk.  Our word problem was about solids and liquids, which led us into our science lesson. We began a KWL chart on solids and liquids.  We'll complete it tomorrow!

9/5/14

In language arts class, we took a spelling test and it was easy.  We also did writing workshop with new brain bubbles.  Some friends got to go to the library, and we had a conversation about saving chapter books for third grade and on.

Math class had centers today.  We played Kakooma again, as well as rolled place value dice to compare numbers and double dice to make doubles practice problems.  Mrs. Johnson's class beat Mrs. Bruno's class in SplashMath this week, so the overall score is a tie at 1-1.  Who will win next week?  Check back to see!!!!!

9/4/14

We finished our fourth Math 4 Today sheet today.  We'll have a quiz tomorrow.

We did centers with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Ray.  We wrote on the white boards for phonics, finished our doodleloops, and did a story map.

In math, we finished Math Magician and worked more on comparing numbers.  We also played the jumping game!  : )  We worked more with maps today, comparing flat maps to globes.

9/3/14

We made up for not checking Math 4 Today yesterday by checking two days this morning.  We also learned how to do SplashMath in the computer lab.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we did reading centers.  We had our reading test on Arthur's Reading Race.  We continued working on our stories, and some of us even finished. 

In math, we went to the computer lab and worked on comparing numbers to 1000.  Mrs. Johnson' class got 84% of their questions correct.  We can't wait to see what Mrs. Bruno's class gets.  They won the competition last time.  Stay tuned . . .

Our special today is art!  Yippee!!!!

9/2/14

Happy September!!!!

This morning, in language arts, we did writing workshop, where we discussed our brain bubble!  We also did centers (silent reading, phonics center with sounds, and read Arthur's Reading Race).

In math, we talked about greater and less than numbers.  We also talked about equal numbers.  We took our fact fluency test and learned our fluency strategy of the week.  In social studies, we reviewed our map skills and sang the Continent Song.

Mrs. Bruno is so thankful for all of the birthday presents she got today!  She loved all of the cards, pictures, and gifts.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!  :)

8/29/14

Brainpop Jr. made its first appearance in our classroom today.  Mrs. Bruno LOVES to show these fun 3-minute clips to go along with our social science topics!  We also learned about math centers.

We took our spelling test in Mrs. Johnson's room this morning.  We also had the chance to silent read and go to the library.  We also finished working on our brain bubbles.

We'll do touch math, dice, iPads, and a quiz in math centers today.  We also talked about continents, countries, and states in social studies.  Mrs. Bruno taught us a song to learn the continents!!

Congrats to Molly Brown for being this week's Good Citizen!

8/28/14

What a crazy day!!!  We combined our classes today becasue Mrs. Johnson has a meeting at the board at 1:00.  We had a great day in language arts!!!!  Our class talked about urban, suburban, and rural areas (to go along with our social studies unit).  We wrote on our response sheet about the book we read yesterday called A Pet that Fits. We made a brain bubble about small moments, and then we began writing about those small moments.

We have not had math yet, but we'll go over some number sense skills (writing numbers in standard form, expanded form, number word form, and sketch form).  We'll also go over what our homework looks like and have a social studies lesson.

We're looking forward to Friday!  Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

8/27/14

We took our very first comprehension test in Mrs. Johnson's room.  It was on Jamaica Louise James, and we were reading that story because it talked about an urban area.  We also did centers and made sentences and played games.

In math, we did centers, too.  Mrs. Johnson's class got 71.5% of their SplashMath questions correct.  We want to see if we can beat them!!!!  : )  We'll let you know!!!

It's snack time right now, and then we'll head to our first counselor's class.

8/26/14

We did writing workshop in Mrs. Johnson's room this morning.  We played Sparkle with our spelling words to practice them!!!  We learned about Flex Checkout in the library and got to use the flex checkout system while we worked in our centers!  Yippee! 

In math, we practiced standard, number word, and expanded form.  We also discussed and drew pictures of urban, suburban, and rural areas and had a little 2nd grade debate!  It was fun!!!

8/25/14

Happy Monday!!!!

Today, we read our StoryTown basal for the first time.  It was about a little girl's grandmother who rode the subway.  We happen to be talking about subways in social studies right now.  We've learned that subways are a part of urban areas.  Mrs. Johnson introduced a comprehension sheet for tomorrow night's homework.

In math, Mrs. Bruno introduced SplashMath to us, for personal use this time.  We checked our username and password, and we'll begin playing on it next week.  We also learned about urban areas, suburban areas, and rural areas in social studies.

We're headed to computer for our special after we're finished with snack time!!!!  We're looking forward to another great week!!!!!  :)

8/22/14

We did writing workshop in Mrs. Johnson's room this morning.  We took a spelling test and did a crossword puzzle.  My Best Friend was the name of a book that we read and discussed good beginnings and good endings.

In math, we did centers (dice, word problems, iPads, and a quiz).  We also talked about cities and urban areas in social studies.

8/21/14

In language arts, we did centers and writing workshop.  We used white boards with Mrs. O'Connor and unscrambled cut/glue words.  We worked on a response sheet for Joshua and the Tiger.  We also read silent reading books.

We have a Math 4 Today quiz tomorrow.  In math, we played "What's My Number?" and worked on skip counting by 1s, 10s, and 100s.  We worked a word problem and talked about communities and neighborhoods in social studies.

We're about to go to special and PE after snack.

8/20/14

In language arts today, we did silent reading, meet with the teacher, meet with Mrs. O'Connor, and rainbow spelling centers.  Mrs. Glover and some other teachers helped us with our DIBELS this morning.  We played Oh, No!!!!

In math, we also did centers.  We met with Mrs. Shepard for social studies, rolled dice to create numbers, practiced subtraction facts on the iPads, and worked word problems and practiced our zero skill with Mrs. Bruno.

We've been VERY busy today!!!!

8/19/14

We did Math 4 Today and did silent reading.  We also got the stickers for our Husky Pads that help us log into all of our school websites.  We checked our Math 4 Today.  It was VERY easy today.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we did writing workshop.  We read If You Take a Mouse to School.  We also did centers.

In math, we built numbers, worked with our Math in Focus book, and learned how to do word problems in second grade.  We also copied two social studies vocabulary words.

8/18/14

We completed our Math 4 Today morning work, along with copying our spelling words.  Mrs. Johnson's friends came over to check Math 4 Today.  We also caught up on the students who didn't do Math Magician last week.

In our math block, we took our timed test, learned about our new fact fluency folder homework, and built numbers on our white boards.  In our language block, we talked about writing workshop and how to have neat handwriting and write complete sentences.  We read Back to Front and Upside Down.

We're eating a yummy snack before our read aloud.  Mrs. Bruno is REALLY proud of our behavior today.  We are LISTENING and FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS very well today, which was a big problem last week.  We're finally getting the hang of things!  : )

8/15/14

Today, we had silent reading instead of morning work.  It has been a VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY crazy day.  We TRIED centers today for the first time.  Unfortunately, our fire drill and tornado drill took up some of our center time, so we rushed through the end.  Next week will be better!  We did Math 4 Today quiz, social studies, iPad, and Math About Me centers.

Congrats to Bragan for being our good citizen!!!!!  Have a happy weekend!

8/14/14

We finished this week's Math 4 Today and checked it.  We also looked at what tomorrow's quiz will look like.  Six more students did Math Magician today to work on math facts.  To learn how we'd practice math fluency we learned about Kim Sutton songs.  We wrote down all the numbers we heard.  We also talked about what mathematicians look like and what good mathematicians do.  We started creating our own mathematician.

We looked at our IXL homework and are eating snack before read aloud and PE.

8-13-14

This morning, we checked Math 4 Today with Mrs. Johnson's class.  We finished our math assessments and worked with base 10 blocks again, as well as whiteboards.

We also learned about how to do our Wednesday night homework.  We read the passage and then look back in the passage for the answers.  Underlining the answers helps Mrs. Bruno know that we really looked back for the answers.  Mrs. Bruno knows that some of us have church on Wednesday night, so she reminded us that using our time wisely AT SCHOOL will minimize the time spent on homework AT HOME.