Room 4P

Wow, time sure does fly!

This week our class focused on personification in writing. Inanimate objects such as pencils, computers, shoes and planes took on human characteristics in poems written by the students. Some of the students are publishing their poems onto our class wiki.

We focused on the concept of place this week. Teams were challenged to list of all of the places that they could think of in three minutes. Then teams were given another three minutes to answer this question, “What makes a place unique?” Students have started to draw pictures of their own favorite place which will be put together into a community quilt.

We started the book The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. So far it is very good! In reading students have been reading up to 45 minutes on their books. We love reading so much that many of us groan when it is time to stop. I love to read the letters that the students write to me about their books.

The garden is raked, clean and ready for bulbs to be planted next week. Ted DeMers will be coming to talk to us next week about making a bench for the garden. We can’t wait! Jack and the garden committee hung up the bird feeders. Thank you, Mr. M., for the generous donation of bird seed!

4th grade was in charge of the Word of the Week bulletin board last week. The word was estimate. Students were so creative in thinking about how we estimate in real life! We drew examples and wrote sentences to go with them. Mrs. Sullivan came to our class to tell us what an amazing job 4th grade did on the bulletin board.

Everyone did such a great job on their spelling test! Go 4P!

In math, we’ve started to learn about BIG numbers in the thousands and ten thousands. We continue to practice adding and subtracting numbers. This week we’ve started to memorize our multiplication facts.

Laser, Sam’s guinea pig, came to visit. He was so cute with his little mohawk haircut. We enjoyed watching him eat his corn on the cob.

Alex taught us a new game for class meeting. It is an improved version of the killer game. Thanks, Alex! We also learned a new greeting this week called Snowball Greeting.

So many students are working on independent research projects! Ana inspired us with her report about turtles. It is very exciting to learn from each other’s research! Here are the topics the students are learning about:

Will – Hedgehogs
Ana – Sign Language
Amanda – Pilgrims
Claire – Romans
Jacklyn, Josie and Kyler – Greek Mythology
Alex – Bats
Xandra – Computers
Sam – Guinea Pigs
Ally – Seahorses
Jack – Chameleons

I hope I didn’t forget anyone!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. P.