Thursday, March 24, 2011
Social Studies - American Presidents, USA flag and Growth in America...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Middah of the Week
This week we discussed the Middah of "Dan L'chaf Zchus" - Judging others favorably. That means that when one of our friends does something we don't like or we feel wronged, we try to think the most positively about them. For example, we can think: " She did it by mistake", "she didn't notice", "she had a good reason for behaving like that which I didn't know..." etc.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Mazal Tov!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Basket of Compliments
Science Chapter 6 - Weather
- Weather
- atmosphere
- hurricane
- tornado
- Blizzard
On Thursday, we did an exploration: "How can we measure wind speed?" We made a wind speed meter and went outside to read the wind speed. We will be recording the wind speed over the next few days to see if there are any patterns...
Pictures from our trip to the JCM...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Our Writing -Update...
We used "What You Know First" by Patricia MacLachlan to learn about 'internal conflict'.
We used 'My Chinatown' to learn about 'word choices.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Purim Play IN HEBREW!!!!!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Adar Activities...
Getting ready for Purim: Morah Ariella has brought the theme of the Purim story -"Ve'nahafoch Hu" ( how everything in the Purim story had an 'about turn' and became the opposite) to our classroom everyday in a fun and exciting way. Everyday we turned something around and did the opposite of the norm! We even managed to learn with our pajamas on!
On friday we had a special Rosh Chodesh rally. we all brought fun hats to school!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Preparing for the State Exams...
3) writing and responding
- Math book 1 - we have done many past papers and feel confident in the kind of questions that are asked.
- Math book 2 - we have done 1 or 2 past papers and we are now clear about what is expected of us in this part and we will continue to practice...
- From the beginning of the year we have become familiar with the reading - multiple choice questions format.
- We have been building on the reading skills neccessary to anwer the kind of questions that are asked in the test
- We have been listening to many read alouds and discussing.
- We know how to edit our own work,
- And, we have got used to responding and writing about books that we read.
Now it's time to put our skills into practice and learn how to take a test!
We wrote up some 'Reading Test Tips':
-Always read ALL answers
-Choose BEST answer
-Think about the MAIN IDEA of the text and the author's PURPOSE in writing the text
-When the answer is in the text - underline the words in the text.
-When the answer is not in the text - we need to infer and 'read between the lines'
-Check your work carefully
I was so proud of our class that they were able to come up with these tips on their own!!!!
We will be continuing to work on all these skills and we will be writing tips for ourselves for the 'listening' section and 'writing' section too!
Monday, March 7, 2011
Masquerade Party in School...
Math - Unit 8
Thursday, March 3, 2011
March Trips...
- Jewish Children's Museum (JCM) Purim Program: 14th March - 9:30am - 1:30pm
- Model Matzah Bakery at Chabad Neshama Center: 30th March - 12:15 - 2:00pm
About the program: At the Matzah bakery the children learn how matzah is made. Dressed in baker's hats and aprons, the children participate in a full live presentation of the matzah baking procedures as well as forming and baking their very own matzah to take home. In addition, children will step back in time to experience ancient Egypt and watch as the miraculous escape is brought to life in an educational and entertaining voyage through history.
Hat Day
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Our Favorite Books...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Our morning at the Library and literacy fun lesson...
On Monday we had a really nice and productive morning at the library. We first had a tour of the library with an experienced children's librarian. She showed us how to find books, where different genres of books are and generally how a library works. She knew about all the popular books that children our age like to read, the new ones and old favorites. We felt so good that we know where things are and can navigate ourselves and figure out how to find books we want! Then we got to choose 2 books each and we checked them out with our library cards. (Books are due back to library in 3 weeks - The children's cards and receipts will be returned tomorrow). The bus ride back to school was very quiet. We were all very busy reading and enjoying the books that we checked out from the library!