A Big Bite

This week was a fantastic week! It started strong and ended strong! Everyone worked very hard and put forth great effort after having a week off!

We finished Chapter 7 in math and took the unit test. Mrs. Y came in on Friday to practice MCAS questions. In science, we finished a unit of study on humidity and precipitation. We played ring that bell and took the test on Friday. We started learning about the Southeast United States and watched the National Geographic CDs about this very interesting region.

We began writing another essay about our "best time ever." This should be finished next week. During Reader's Workshop, we had more visitors! Mrs. Williams said this should be the end of our visitors for a while. The teachers from Davis Thayer and Parmenter were very impressed with us! We finished Snow Treasure and it was AWESOME! We loved all of the cliffhangers that McSwigan used, especially at the end. Mrs. Williams said that we did a great job on summarizing the chapters and learned so much about figurative language. Our book count is 785 books read as of 2/26/10. We will be starting a unit of study on Mythology next week in addition to practicing for the ELA MCAS. The Lightning Thief book group is making good progress. What will happen to Percy, Annabeth and Grover? Keep reading to find out!

On Thursday we had an assembly about Bullying. Afterwards, we had a BIG Open Circle to discuss some of the ideas presented. Mrs. Williams will be sending home some information about bullying next week.

On Friday, we celebrated earning 30 parrots for good effort and behavior in Specials with Gameday. The Twister fans were tied up in knots! Check out the video!

We want to send a friendly shout out to our new follower in Queensland, Australia! We hope you like what you see and look forward to any comments you have for us from Down Under! What books are your favorites and what do your students like to read? We sure wish we had your warm weather because it has been snowing and raining here for the past week!

Until next week!

By,

Jack, Jake, Matt, Bryan, Ellie, Gracie, Kiran and Jules.