Holiday Reading Party

On 12-20-12 we are having a reading party with our epic class! We get to bring in a blanket and pillow and a stuff animal it is going to be epic!  We will have fun reading and eating special snacks.  Miss King is coming! 

Written by Teammates KH and LM

The Holiday Store at Ox Bow

Team 184 is going to a holiday store to buy Christmas

presents for family, friends and pets. How exciting we

get to buy all sorts of things! If kids want to buy

things, kids can do that at Ox Bow. The Christmas

store ends Thursday.

Written by Teammate H.R

indpendent reading

Team 184 has been working on independent reading. IDR (independent daily reading) is  when everybody gets a book and they read for 30 minutes.

Sometimes the teacher pulls kids and works with them. 

We each have a number, it's either odd or even. When the date is odd all of the odd numbered people get to go on the floor or under their desk. If the number is even then all the even numbered people get to sit on the floor or under their desk.

Written by teammate HR

Writing Workshop

In our class we do writing workshop and yesterday we wrote about our house. Today we are going to write personal narratives, but sometimes we write poems and stories about what we do on Christmas and about our lives. We also write about games the we play. 


Your Teammate, ZH 

Rotations

We are going to tell you what each rotation is for. We think LTS [listen to stories] helps us with reading fluency. PR [partner read] helps us with the ability to read and listen. WW [word work] helps us with our spelling patterns. RR [reading response] helps us with story structure. Written by teammates KH and KK

Reading response

In reading response were talking about questioning. What we do is we read a book and write a question every few pages. Then we drop down 3 lines the on the 3rd line we draw a curvy line. Then it starts all over. Written by teammates KK and ZH 

Book Clubs

Team 184 has been working on book clubs and
reading about sports  and is having fun with it.  We have also been and asking questions. Asking questions are when you read a book then you ask questions before you turn the page.  And at the end you see if you can answer the questions you ask about the story.

Written by Teammates KH and AL

Schema

Our class has been working on what schema is. It is what you have already been through, like part of my schema is I have been to Florida before. 

When you are reading, your schema helps you make connections, infer, and ask questions.  That's why your schema is so important!

Written by Teammates TK and IM 

Word Work

Team 184 has been working on contractions! 
Contractions are two words combined  together.
Like I+have=I've , I+will=I'll , will+ not=won't, and she+ will=she'll. We can use contractions to write when we are having two people talk.  
Written by AB HR

JJOBBBBBBSSSSS

We have jobs. Some of the jobs are lunch bucket and library books, gardener, and paper passers. We get to chose our jobs every month.  Like inspector, ABC order, door holder, magnet mover, PAT marker, turn off computers and turn off lamps.

Written by teammate GP and HR

We made videos!

Click here to see a Multiplication and Division Video!

by AL

PAT Time

Almost every Friday, we have 30 minutes of PAT time.

PAT time is to learn, but have fun while doing it.  During PAT time, we experience things.  We get PAT points during the week for being extra coopertive, extra quiet, or extra efficient.  We work together to get points.  If we are too loud or uncooperative we lose points. =(

During PAT time, we usually do something with science or art.

PAT time is a time to be creative and investigate. 

Written by Team 184

Responding to Literature

In  responding to literature we write pieces of evidence to prove our thesis.

Written by Mrs. Kaufman, ZH, KH

How does asking questions help the reader?

Asking questions helps you infer.  AL

Asking questions helps the reader monitor and clarify.  LM

Asking questions helps the reader expand the story for him or herself.  AS

Asking questions puts you into the story.  GP

Asking questions helps you care about the character.  TK

By asking questions you can find answers and organize our thinking.  HB

Asking questions helps you understand more details. KK

When you asks questions it makes you get more into the story.  LPH

Questions help you understand what the character does.  AB

Vocubulary

Team 184 has been working  on vocabulary! Vocabulary  is  helping us  in our writing and reading. We also have words like charts,certificate, impressive, educational, creative, erupt, presentation, and report.
Your Teammates, H.R and B.J.

 

Idioms

This week we are learning about idioms. Idioms are words that mean one thing but say another. Here are some examples under the weather  which means feeling sick, feeling blue which means feeling sad, on top of the world which mean's feeling great, and fed up which means annoyed.

Written by teammates KK, LPH, and GM  

Asking Questions

Team 184 has been working on asking questions during independent daily reading.  

Written by teammates LM and HR

Class Meeting

The other week we gathered together to talk about the effects of bullying.  What would you like to say to a bully?  We talked about saying stop and your different too. We also talked about what you would say to bullies if you or somebody else was bullied.

Fractions

Team 184 has been working on fractions. Yesterday we did fractions then we drew it then labeled it what the fractions were. Some students are doing stories about fractions. We go to the smartboard room and learn about fractions. It helps us do stories and math problems. Some people do more things with fractions and they like to do a test with fractions.

Written by KH

 

Class Meeting

On Mondays we do a class meeting. We tell about our week.  After that we do our vocabulary for the week by talking about the words and clapping them out.


Written by AL and KH

Book Clubs

Book club is when you get in a small group and read a book and you ask what are you thinking or what you are wording about.  This week we are talking about how questions help you become a better reader.  We are reading sports books about athletes that NEVER GAVE UP.

Written by KH

Fractions

This week we are starting to learn about fractions. Fractions are when you make a shape and you shade in 7 parts of that shape and you write what the fraction is. So you can draw a circle and put 10 boxes and shade in 5 so that would be 5 out 10.

Written by KH

Scholastic News

For scholastic news we read the story and then we have a paper and we do the questions on the paper. We answer the question on the paper.  We do this every Friday.  We learn about non-fiction and how to answer questions.  

Written by KH

Food Drive

The week of December 10 we are going to have a food drive.

We will be bring in food for families. I hope that all of 
kids can help with their participation.

Written by EA, ZP, KH

Equal Groups

  

 This week we are beginning to work on equal groups in math.

Students took a group of objects and divided them up into smaller groups, so that each smaller group had the same number of objects!

Students divide objects up into equal groups.

We did things with math blocks. We wrote what we made with math blocks.  We are working on multiplication and division.

Written by Teammate KH

Inventions

Hello students this week we have been learning about Tomas Edison as we all know he invented the light bulb, carbon transmitter, and phonograph. Did you ever think about inventing something useful like robot helpers or  cars that run on solar power? If you are creative, anything is possible. 

Written by Teammates KK and HR

Schema

Team 184 has been working on schema.  Schema is what you already know, main ideas from books you've read and movies you've seen, memories and events in your life. We have been making schema posters about our lives. Paying attention to your schema helps you as a reader because it helps you make connections and understand the story better. Schema is something you know 

Written by KK  Mrs. Kaufman, and HR
 

Multiplication and Division

Team 184 is working on multiplication! We have been working on putting blocks and shapes into equal groups. Also our teacher has some little bags of candy to put in little groups.     

Written by Teammates HR and KK

Summarizing, Main Idea, Retelling, and Theme

Today we talked about summarizing,main ideas, retelling, and themes.

Here's what each one means:

1. The main idea is what the story is about.

2. Retelling is when you tell the story again with as many details as you remember.

3. The theme of a story is what the author wants you to learn.

4.  Summarizing is retelling the most important things in the story, including the problem and solution.

 

The Harvest Birds

 

Our story of the week last week was called The Harvest Birds, by Blanca Lopez de Mariscal. 

Here, Juan is visited by a zanate bird!

 In this story, a young man follows his dream of raising crops, even though no one believed he could. He got help from some unlikely friends, including some very helpful zanate birds!

 

 

 

Students act out The Harvest Birds together.

 

 

 

 

 After reading the story together a few times, we had fun acting it out as a class. 

The narrators help keep the story moving!

Red Ribbon Week

Last week was  

Red Ribbon Week at 

Ox Bow Elementary!

 On Friday, our class went outside to tie red ribbons onto the fence by the soccer field.

These ribbons help remind us to stay drug free!

 

During the week, we also wore silly socks, brought in canned goods for a local food bank, and "teamed up against drugs" by wearing our favorite teams' jerseys and hats!

We are proud to be a drug-free community!

Macaroni Commas!

What are your favorite foods?

We worked on understanding that when we write lists, we have to have commas in our writing! Instead of just writing the commas, we used macaroni to help us remember where they go in a list! 

Shape Poems