Friday, June 5th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book about simple machines called “Cut, Chop and Stop”. This book focused on wedges. Then each student traced a wedge and wrote “This is a wedge”.
2.) Identified the value on pennies, nickels and dimes. Trevor played an addition dice game with Debbie.
3.) Had a lot of free time on the very rainy day!
4.) Sang our favorite songs during our last music class with Deanna. We truly loved music with Deanna this year.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Art, we made clay sculptures and then got to color them with markers as well as add wires and pipe cleaners for decoration.
2.) During Math, we split into groups. One group played Dominoes and learned two different ways to play. We had to pay attention to the numbers on each Domino find strategies to match as many sides as we could. The other group played UNO and had to pay attention to colors as well as matching numbers.
3.) Mr. Jim made a surprise appearance to spoil us with one final Drama class for the year! We had such a great time using our imaginations this year, learning games such as: Magic Suitcase, VRRRooommm-vroooom, Taxi and Fruit Salad . These games really challenged us to think more abstractly and sort and categorize in our mind. The categorization games were great games to help us work on several fundamentals in language, such as, prediction, inference, and decision making. Also we had to pay attention to detail and always be focused and listening, otherwise we would miss an important part of the game!

The Golden Owls:
Today we had a fantastic Friday!
1.) During our math time we completed our mad minute before taking our final Friday Quiz. We then reviewed different strategies to help us solve multiplication problems, as well as subtraction problems with borrowing.
2.) During language arts we split up into our groups and did our Explode the Code books before wrapping up our lessons on Obama and jellyfish. We used strategies that we have been learning about all year to help write a detailed summary from our webs. We also drew pictures and labeled the different developmental stages of a jellyfish.
3.) We used clay, wire and markers in our last art class to build fabulous sculptures. We always have the best time Ms. Feinberg!