We had so many exciting things happen this week it was hard to decide exactly what to write about. Mrs. Webster made an executive decision... we worked together as a class to share our favorite memory or the HIGHLIGHT of the week. Read below to find out more about our lives in the "oval office".
What was your best memory (seed story) or the highlight of the week ending 10/26?
#1 - "Seeing how the Wampanoags ate by cooking over a fire. One Wampanoag was eating mussels." Field Trip
#2 - " I think the highlight of the week was making our pilgrim hat's and choosing our names" Social Studies
#3 - " I am getting ready for math MCAS by underlining key words and showing all my work." Math
#4 - "Ooh aaah, said the class when we saw the new SMARTboard. We used it to practice cursive." Classroom
#5 - "I got Principal's Pride this week for my tree house story." Writing
#6 - "I read One Hundred Dresses with Mrs. Jokela. From the book I learned that Wanda sat in the back corner." Reading/Daily 5/ Book Club
#7 - "Picture Day because everyone got their pictures teaken in the library on the second floor." Special Program
#8 - "I read a book called One Hundred Dresses. We read the first chapter. We learned that Wanda sits in the last row in her classroom and we're trying to find out why." Reading/Daily 5/ Book Club
#9 - "My favorite part of the week was getting the brand new SMARTboard 800 mounted to the wall." Classroom
#10" - "We did a non-fiction text scavenger hunt. I searched for italics, or bold words in a non-fiction text. I found them in the book American Revolution." Reading
#11 - " I think that the highlight of this week was the field trip, my favorite part was having to do the scavenger hunt and my group finished it." Field Trip
#12-"I learned that my assigned character, Katherine Carver, died in the 1st winter while at Plimoth Plantation. She was a Pilgrim woman who came over on the Mayflower" Social Studies & Field Trip
#13 - "This week I learned that the wetu is made out of sticks. The beds are made out of animal skins." Field Trip
#14 - "On the field trip, I learned the houses were made out of bark, sticks and string." Field Trip
#15-"While discussing the candidates I learned that Mitt Romney had 18 Grandkids and 5 children. That's 23 all together! We also learned more about Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's life and childhood growing up." Social Studies
#16 - "The Wampanoag made mishoons by burning logs from trees." Field Trip
#17- "While reading chapter 1 of the book 100 Dresses we learned that Wanda, the main character, sits in the last row. We are trying to figure out why she is sitting in the last row." Reading/Daily 5/ Book Club
#18 - "On the field trip, I found my pilgrim, George Soule's house. There was a pilgrim women cleaning it." Field trip
#19 - " Waking in the room and seeing the bolted SMARTboard. Love at first sight." Classroom
#20 - " Highlight of my week was the Wampanoag homesite and learning about the winter homes and what fur and supplies they used." Field Trip
#21 - "The thing I enjoyed the most was reading the poem of the week, Stress About the Test to the class." Poetry Pal, Job of the week
#22 -"My highlight was learning about adverbs. Adverbs are bully words, they bully verbs. For example: walk quickly." Daily 5 mini lesson/ Reading
#23-"During Daily 5 we went on an adverb scavenger hunt. While reading our books we had to use a sticky note and write down the adverb and verb that went together." Daily 5/ Reading
#24 - "On the field trip, seeing the fireplace in the wetu in the Wampanoag Village." Field Trip
#25 - "It takes a week to burn a log and make a mishoon." Field Trip
The results are in, most students highlighted events and spoke of new learning from our field trip. It was an absolutely perfect day that connected our classroom discussions and helped paint a better picture of how life was for the Native People and the Pilgrims over 400 years ago.
This weekend I will post pictures on the website from our trip to Plimoth. Be sure to check them out! Next week our Book Commercials are due! I had planned to assign dates to students, but the week got past me. On Monday I will ask for volunteers who would like to go first. If your child is ready they may volunteer to go on Monday or Tuesday.
I will also be sending out conference schedule dates and times to those who signed up at Open House or took advantage of the online conference form. It's not too late to sign up! If you would rather do a PHONE conference please indicate this to me on the comment section and I will accomodate your needs.
Another successful week was had by all students in room 313