Monday, March 31, 2014

Simple Machine Presentations

Look at what we learned about simple machines!

We worked in small groups to create a definition for our simple machine.  
Then, we revised and edited our work.  
After that, we discussed ideas of how to show how our simple machine works.  
Next, we decided on an illustration and cooperatively made it happen!


Our work is proudly displayed in the hallway outside of our classrooms.


We're impressing everyone who walks by!


Be sure to ask your child what they learned about their simple machine!


Last, we presented our work to our friends.



Too Fun to Pass Up!


Sweet Learning Moments...


 

Madlibs on the iPads

We had a ball with Madlibs!
We took turns thinking of verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs to fill into a silly story.
You should have heard the giggles in the classroom when we read them aloud!  :o)












Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Sharing our Speeches

We shared our POWERFUL speeches with Mr. Trill and the third grade last Friday!

The learners in the third grade were very impressed with our ideas!  They gave us many compliments and noticed that we were trying to PERSUADE them with our well written speeches.








Come by and read them for yourself when you are waiting for your family conference.
They are on the wall outside our classrooms.  We bet you'll be impressed too!


Multiplication Stories

We wrote our own multiplication stories for our friends to solve.
We read them and made sure our answers matched.



If our answers didn't match, we talked about why and tried them again.



Last, we placed our answers on the bottom of the posters to show our thinking.




Ta-Da!   This is how we KNOW that 7x5=35.