Working on writing

This week we are working on our writing skills. We are looking at what makes a good sentence. In term two we are going to work on writing more interesting complete sentences.

Here are some fun online games to help the students recognize the differences between verbs, nouns and adjectives. These games also give the students some good ideas of words to use when they are writing. We will be playing these games in class this week, but I encourage you to play them at home with your children.

Have fun!

http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/cleanup_eng_launcher.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/matchgeneric2.asp?filename=msmith5adverbshow

Estimation

We have been busy learning about numbers to 1000 in math! We also spent some time working on our estimation skills. We used the smart board to help us practice our estimation skills. The kids all looked at two jars of marbles. One jar had the amount of marbles and the students had to estimate how many were in the second jar. The students quickly caught on that by looking at the first jar they could easily tell if their estimate should be larger or smaller than the jar with the given number.

 

 

 

The kids had lots of fun seeing if their estimate was close to the real answer:

 

On Friday the students estimated how many fruit loops it would take to fill their hands:

Of course after our estimating we got to enjoy a few fruit loops for a yummy snack!

Remembrance Day Art

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile! I have been busy getting ready for report cards. They will go home Friday, November 21, 2014

Last week we got ready for Remembrance Day by making art that was displayed at the Remembrance Day service. Students painted a background in water colors.

While we let it dry we read a book about Remembrance Day and talked about what we were remembering and who we were honoring. Then they used pastels and created a poppy field. The pictures all turned out great and the best part was that everyone's picture looked different but still resembled a poppy field.