End-of-Week Update, 9/26

What we've been up to:

Woosh!  There goes another “puff” as our Room 20 students huff and puff and blow their puff mobiles along!  (Don’t worry, no big bad wolves were involved in the creation of these puff mobiles.)  If you aren’t sure what a puff mobile looks like, check out the photos above and you can see our puff mobiles in person next week at Open House.  Our engineering teams are hard at work redesigning and testing to be sure the puff mobiles are ready for Tuesday's race!

At PE, we had fun outside on the hill while playing “Rescue.”  In health, we shared pictures with the class that were hung up on a poster.  We also asked kids in the class for signatures for questions like “Do you play an instrument?”  “La la la!” In music, we practiced playing our recorders.  We played a new song called the “B” song aka “All Alone.”  At library, we were all absent.  Art was cool this week with “cool” color watercolors (hahaha).  It was the backgrounds of our leaf printings.

This week, we teamed up with Miss Farrell’s class to do some Readers’ Theater and we also read some more of The Sisters Grimm which is a very interesting book!  The girls’ parents vanished from the face of the Earth!  We wrote journal entries during housekeeping.  We heard Emma’s book talk about Jack Russell Dog Detective, in which she told us about the book but didn’t give away any secrets. 

Room 20 students have been working very hard in writing.  We’ve been talking and writing about leads.  We’ve been talking about grabbing the readers’ attention and making them want to keep reading.  We’ve been using dialogue, thought shots, poems, descriptions of the setting / character, facts, action, and onomatopoeia to start the leads.  We started drafting our narrative stories and want to start publishing on Thursday.

On Monday, we did problem solving with multiplication and division.  We worked in teams and tried to use "math talk" in our groups to help us share our ideas and listen to others'.  On Tuesday, we reviewed for the math test.  On Wednesday we rocked our math test!  Some students earned chips completing extra work for studying!  Overall, we were relieved when we took the test because we felt ready and it wasn’t as bad as we were worrying!  Check out some pictures below of the problem solving work we've been doing in teams!  

You’re probably wondering how the puff mobile race is going to go, but you’ll have to wait until Open House to find out!

What's coming up:

• Open House is this coming Thursday, 10/2 6:30 - 8:30.  Be sure to leave plenty of time to check out Room 20 and the hard work we've been doing!
• Our trip to the Franklin Public Library will be on Friday, 10/3!