Thursday, May 19, 2016

Hi Families,

Today, first thing, we were giving feedback to other people for our new animal species. We had to tell them how did they look and let them know if they forgot anything. Then we got to make our animal using materials like clay, cotton balls, bubble wrap and string. It took a long time to make them because you had to figure out how you were going to make them. It was fun, I am already done with mine. After that, we went to snack and then we came back and read The One and Only Ivan. Then after we did a Scholastic News about Mystery Legos. It was about how over 20 years ago a shop with thousands of Legos in a bin spilled in the ocean. They keep finding Legos on the beaches all over the world like dragons, flowers, octopuses, and slippers. After the Scholastic News we wnent to recess and then we went to lunch. Then we went to gym. We played this throwing game, I forget what it was called, but you had to try to get the trash to the other side. Whoever had less on their side won. Then we came back and did a math review. We reviewed money and graphing. We are getting ready for a test tomorrow. 

From, 

Ezekiel

Please check out pictures we posted today on Class Dojo under "Class Story."

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Hi Families,

It was a busy day! We learned ways to make the same amount using different combinations of coins. We made butterfly folders. Our caterpillars are arriving on Thursday. We read a Scholastic News on butterflies. I learned that Monarch butterflies migrate South. We are making our own animals. We had to figure out what it looked like, what it ate, where it lives, and what it uses to get food. It needs adaptations in order to survive in its habitat. We got to pick the habitat too. Mine is living in the rain forest.

From,
Jane

May 12, 2016

Hi Families,

Today we learned how to count with money. Most of us got to present our habitat project. One group has to wait because one of the group members was absent. We also watched a brain pop video on money. We finshed our phonics sentences on soft g and hard g. Soft g says /j/ and hard g says /g/. Today we get to bring home our biography projects and our plants.

From,
Juliet

Monday, May 9, 2016

Hi Families,

Today we made posters about our habitats. The habitat I am learning about is a pond. We took a paper and planned out where stuff was going to be as a group. Also, we learned about animal classifications. The four categories we learned about were bird, mammal, reptile, and fish. It helped with our math on data. Also we did pirate math. I am working on multiplication.

From,
Kevin

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

Dear Families,

Today we ate snack. Then we came up and talked about habitats. Then we read two chapters the One and Only Ivan. We saw that an artist painted Ivan as a mean ape, but he was not a mean ape he was a nice ape. Then we went to snack. After snack, we had reading groups. Then when reading was done we did a Scholastic News on caimen which are similar to crocodiles and alligators. Then when we were done we started recess. We had indoor recess today. When recess was done we went to lunch. Then after lunch we did gym where we did bowling mania. When we came back from specials we did math. We talked about even and odd numbers. After we finished our math work we did math centers. Then we packed up and are going home.

From,
Odanny

Friday, April 29th, 2016

Hi Families,

Today we planted a seed. We are reading the One and Only Ivan. Ivan lives in a mall like you go shopping in. We got to do Friday free time at the end of the day if we earned it. We played games. We did equal groups in math. We talked about odd and even numbers. Even is when you can split it into two equal groups. Next week is appreciate your teacher week. Wear blue on Monday because it is Ms. Petzold's favorite color.

Love, Rhianna

The week of April 28th, 2016

Hi Families,

We have done a lot this week. In writing, we did plant flap books. We had to write a paragraph on plants. I focused on the parts of a plant. We also did math. In math, we are learning about arrays. They have rows and columns. We can write repeated addition sentences. Which is the beginning of multiplication. We are starting to learn about habitats in science. We read an article about habitats. Then, we retold the article to see what we remembered. We are going to get to learn all about a habitat and do a presentation on it. We started reading a class read aloud called The One and Only Ivan. It is about a gorilla who lives in a mall. The gorilla is telling the story in first person.

From,
Suri