Thursday, 9-12

Mrs. Bruno has morning duty in the gym this week, so we're stuck with her even LONGER than normal!!!!!  : )

This morning, we came in and read silently for about 20 minutes.  Then, we headed to Mrs. Johnson's room and read The Leaving Morning while Mrs. Bruno had math intervention.  We discussed good beginning, and we're hoping it makes the beginnings of our stories better! 

After PE, we finished this week's Math Magician and worked on comparing numbers.  We reviewed how to read > and < signs.  We also glanced at our homework so we would know how to do it!  We learned two more properties of solids:  transparent and opaque.  We also looked at our solids in the baggies again and listed each solid's properties.

While Mrs. Johnson taught reading intervention, everyone came to Mrs. Bruno to watch BrainPopJr clips.  We saw a "Counting On" clip and a "Doubles" clip.  We love Moby and Annie!

In language arts, we had flex checkouts and made idea bubbles in writing workshop.

We're hoping our parents will continue to blog back to us!

Wednesday, 9-11

 

For morning work, we read StoryTown to review for our reading test.  We also did something new called Doodleloops.  This is where we are given an abstract picture and have to build a scene around it.  Then, we write a story to go with it on the back.

Next, we headed to specials and PE.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we took our reading test and finished Doodleloops.  We also read library books.

After lunch and recess, we switched classes.  In Mrs. Bruno's room, we practiced double facts to our little dude who sings to us!  : )  We did a tricky science word problem and Math Magician.  Then, we did science . . . yea!!!!!  Today, we talked about properties of solids, describing four specific ones . . . flexible, rigid, rough, and smooth.  We also learned "science bad words" for properties.  Mrs. Bruno said that describing solids with words like "big," "little," "good," or "bad" were awful choices!!!!!  These words cannot give you information about a solid!  We learned better words to replace them, like comparing sizes or smells to objects everyone knows.  We observed several examples of solids and picked out which ones were flexible, rigid, rough, and smooth.  We'll learn even more properties tomorrow and observe the solids again!  Mrs. Bruno can't wait for her Friday surprise for our solids and liquids unit!!!!!

Tuesday, 9-10

Some of us had Paine Primary Singers today. Others of us did word problem morning work. We went to Mrs. Johnson's classroom for vocabulary practice. After PE, we started a brand new unit called "Solids and Liquids."  We did a K-W-L chart to see what we already knew about our new science topic.  We're very excited to be doing science.

In math, we used Base 10 blocks to build numbers with partners.  We also worked on "Solids and Liquids" word problems.

In Mrs. Johnson's room, we prepared for tomorrow's test on Arthur's Reading Race.  We'll do great!

Mrs. Bruno is looking forward to seeing all of our parents at Chat Night tonight!!!  :)

Monday, 9-9

We worked on spelling sentences this morning. Since we also had lots of time to work on them in Mrs. Johnson's class, we hope that no one will have to have homework! After specials and PE we went to Mrs. Johnson's room and read Arthur's Reading Race. We did our vocabulary lesson. In math today, we learned two new games. One was called the Jumping Game, and the other was using a hundreds chart to add and subtract to find secret numbers. We got our last word problem for communities. We were supposed to have a compliment party, but our VERY forgetful teacher left our sugar cookies on her kitchen counter. We sure hope she doesn't eat all of them tonight!!!!! : )

Friday, 9-6

Happy weekend!!! : ) Today's morning work was all about numbers and math. We practiced standard form, sketching, expanded form, and number words. Mrs. Bruno introduced our math centers, and we got to do them for the very first time. We also talked about neighborhoods and learned lots of map skills. We took a spelling test in Mrs. Johnson's room and did centers. We'd like to wish Lake and Coach G. a Happy Birthday today. Tomorrow is Jenna's bday, followed by Trace on Sunday. Congrats to James and Kaleigh for being Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Bruno's good citizens. Have a happy weekend!

Thursday, 9-5

We did morning work, editing some sentences that Mrs. Johnson wrote incorrectly for us. Computer was today's special, and then we headed to PE. We got to go to the Fitness Arcade! YEA!!! We did Math Magician, as always, and practiced last week's fluency strategy. Our word problem was about cities and suburbs. Then, we read more about communities. In Mrs. Johnson's room we checked our morning work and played Sparkle Zap. We had a great day!!! We learned lots!!!!

Hump Day 9-4

We tried to do morning work this morning, but the ELMO wasn't cooperating!!!  :(  We read a book in Mrs. Johnson's room called I Like to be Little.  We went to PE and did karate.

When we came back, we did phonics, writing, and language.  We worked on vocabulary and learned how to take a reading test.

Before lunch, we read another chapter of our read-aloud book.  We enjoyed lunch and recess, but it was awfully warm!

In math, we did Math Magician, word problems, and created numbers in standard form, number word form, expanded form, and sketching.  We created t-charts about urban and suburban living. 

We are hoping that our parents will read today's post and respond back to us!  It excites us to see what our parents have to say about our day!