Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Hi families,

We learned about math. We learned how to find how many tens are in a group of hundreds. There are 10 tens in one hundred. We did a high five greeting this morning. We went to an assembly in the auditorium. A girl danced like a ballerina. We saw pictures of us on a slideshow. We talked about what we are grateful for. I am grateful for Ms. Petzold. Tomorrow we have a math test. It’s just like our homework – so work hard on the homework!!

Have a good afternoon!

Love,

Rhianna

Here are some pictures of from the assembly:

Mrs. Donovan sharing what she is thankful for.

 Students receiving integrity awards.

Fourth graders reading Thanksgiving poems! 

Monday, November 23, 2015

Hi families,

Today we learned about diagrams. Diagrams show the reader the parts of the animal. My animal is deer. We read Jack and Annie Thanksgiving on Thursday. Jack and Annie were just about to leave. They were in 1621 at the first Thanksgiving with Squanto and the Pilgrims. We got to play at recess. I was person of the day. In math, we did counting on a number line. It was tricky. We have a math test on Wednesday. We are going to practice tomorrow to get ready. I am excited for Thanksgiving because my uncle is coming. At the end of the day, we did our grateful books. 

From,

Suri

Some important announcements:

In your child's home-school folder is a PURPLE form about conferences. Please send back your availability as soon as possible. I will assign slots on a first-come first-serve basis based on times desired. 

Also in your child's folder is their drafts from narrative writing. Please read the orange letter regarding their drafts and let me know if you have any questions. 

A few important reminders!

Hi Families! 

Happy Friday! A few important reminders:
-We are making information books and will be completing an All About the Author page. If possible, please send in a recent picture of your child for the page. If you need me to print it, please e-mail it to me and I'd be happy to do so! 
-Friday journals are in backpacks! Please read all about our week! 
-Math quizzes are in backpacks as well. Please look it over and let me know if you have any questions.
-Conferences will be held Thursday, December 10th and Friday, December 11th. Sign-ups will be coming home next week. Please plan on joining me for a 10 minute conference one of those days. 
-This coming Wednesday (Nov 25th) is an early release day. No school on Thursday (Nov 26th) or Friday (Nov 27th). 

As always, send me an e-mail with ANY questions, concerns, comments, or thoughts. :-) Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Petzold
http://adventuresinroom217.blogspot.com/ 

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Hi Families,

Today we did pirate math. We learned about counting money in math. We used different dollar bills to get to numbers. We used hundred bills, ten bills, and one bills. In writing, we kept working on our animals. I am learning about raccoon. I like raccoon. When the raccoon is big it eats things that are really small and sometimes dead things. We read Thanksgiving on Thursday. Jack and Annie are back at Pilgram times in the first Thanksgiving. We are figuring out the problems the face and the solutions they come up with. We wrote in our grateful books.

From,
Angelina

 Based on our class read aloud Thanksgiving on Thursday. It is a Magic Tree House book which is a great series for second graders to be reading! We have been analyzing the two main characters, Jack and Annie, by looking at their character traits and analyzing the problems they face and the solutions they come up with to solve the problems. 

A math word problem we did today and the four ways we have learned to express numbers this week.

Awesome Wednesday - Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Hi Families,

We learned how to do unit form, word form, expanded form, and standard form. For the number 234 standard form is 234, word form is two hundred thirty-four, expanded form is 200 + 30 + 4, and unit form is 2 hundreds, 3 tens, 4 ones. We learned about animals. We are researching them. Our aniamls are sharks and manatees. I learned manatees play dead when a boat comes. The whale shark can be up to sixty-four feet long. Today we made the cover, too. We played  7-up at the end of the day because we were good kids today.

From,
Ave and a friend :-)

***Families, please see the purple letter that is coming home today about our new and exciting informational writing unit. Each child has chosen an animal to research and I have gotten them books about them from the library. Each day we will complete a different part of their informational book. Yesterday, we began doing research. Today, we worked on the cover page for the books. If you have a recent printed picture of your child please consider sending it in for them to use for their about the author page.

Working diligently on cover page for our information books.

Researching animals on Tuesday.

More students working hard on research!

Creating cover pages!

November 16, 2015

Hi families,

We did pirate math today. I think I got up to +10, I knew all my +9 facts. I was the person of the day and I had a lot of fun on the wobbly chair. In math, we learned about unit form. Unit form is where you write how many hundreds, tens, and ones. We also did number bonds. We got to look at animals and we picked three animals we would want to learn about and the teacher gets to pick one that's from our list for us to research. I hope I get raccoons. This week we are learning about long O words. We are learning about the -ow pattern like crow or grown and -oa pattern like boat and groan. I'm excited for Friday free time at the end of the day on Friday.

From,
A student in Ms. Petzold's Classroom

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Dear all families,

Today we had a mystery reader. It was Josh's mom. She read one book about Thanksgiving. She brought two ducks and one snake stuffed animals. I got a magic treehouse book and it is a tough book. We had math partners. There are colored dots for us to sit on at whole group time, mine is orange. I got to use the iPad. I played this game called Sushi Monster and you have to add up the numbers to different sums. It was pretty easy. We learned about character traits. We did a paper where we had to describe Raphael and Maya's character traits fromGoing Places We read the book twice, the second time at our desks we had to listen and think about the inside and outside traits and write them down. We are going to start writing non-fiction books on animals on Monday. I don't know which animal I want to learn about yet. We also went to P.E. We played hockey. We ran around in a circle in the gym. Then we stretched. When we were done we dribbled the hockey pucks all around the gym. We got partners to pass it around. My partner was Gabriel. We did math. If you were on 476 and need to count to benchmark numbers. So you could 477, 478, 479, 480. Then you can count by 10s, like 490, 500. Then by hundreds to 600. We did a math paper and helped our partners.  I was person of the day today and I got to do calendar and the place value chart and days in school chart.

From,
Ezekiel

Our Mystery Reader Today - Mrs. Andam!