Our book clubs are sticking to the rules of their constitutions and today finished up their plans for reading. We have creative club names to go along with our historical fiction unit. 

We worked on thesis statements today in writing. Students are ready to begin finding evidence for their literary essays!

Today our reading groups started to develop constitutions for their book clubs. These constitutions will hold the rules for the club and the expectations the students have for each other- and themselves. We will begin our historical fiction books later this week. 

Day 1 of testing is complete!  We celebrated and relaxed with a little kickball. We also reviewed some math concepts with a game of Kahoot. 

We reviewed in class for our math test tomorrow. We played a game of connect 4. The students seem to be ready, but I would recommend looking over the study guide tonight as well as practicing drawing angles and reviewing the differences between quadrilaterals. 

We finished our Freedom Quilt today. We have finished our studies of the causes of the Civil War and next week we will learn more about the war. 

Remember- no school tomorrow!

Today we started to make a Freedom Quilt after reading the book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. This book helps continue our studies of slavery and the Civil War. 

We did a little Writing outside today to enjoy the beautiful weather. They insist the great outdoors inspire their poetry!

Our first grade buddies stopped by today to give us some encouragement for the upcoming MAP test. The class especially loved the good fortune predicted by their fortune tellers!

We have a room full of poets!  Today we worked on color poems and many included figurative language in these. 

Today we started to practice measuring angles with protractors. This was a challenge but they worked through it. We will review this again tomorrow. 

Can you feel the love?  We worked on some cards and decorations for Librarian's Day tomorrow. 

We have been revisiting measurement this week in our math stations. We are focusing on perimeter and area as well as capacity. We are also trying a new computer program called Redbird Math as well as Aleks. 

We are starting geometry and today we looked at different types of lines in math. 

Don't forget we have a science test tomorrow. Students have study guides or you can look on Friday's blog for a copy. 

And of course.....