This week we received our first postcards in the mail for our Postcard Exchange Project. Our goal is to get a postcard from all 50 states. So far we’ve received 13 postcards from the following states: Florida, Texas, Vermont, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Michigan. In Reader’s Workshop we reviewed our Workshop Plan which is to 1. Choose a book, 2. Read, 3. Think, 4. Read some more, and 5. Respond. In Writer’s Workshop we read Library Mouse which was about a mouse who was an author and wrote about what he knew. He wrote lots of different genres (kin
ds) of books and he taught the kids that they were all authors, too! This week we used the Activotes (the eggs) to review for our Reading Cycle Test. In Math we worked on Magic Squares, which are squares where each line equals the same sum. On Wednesday we had a very special visitor. Mr. Bren, an artist, came to visit Kennedy School. He started Project Smile, where he leaves his paintings for people to take for FREE! But the new owner has to promise to smile more often! We went to an all school assembly to learn about his project, and then he visited Room 203 to teach us how to draw his
creations. He’s so cool! He gave our school one of his paintings. We are so lucky! If you come to Kennedy School you will see lots of smiling kids & teachers! This week we’ve been working on the Halloween Story with our online buddies in Mount Prospect. We write a little of the story, and then they continue where we left on. We are using Google Documents to share and work together on a story. We can’t wait to show you our story when it’s done. We sure have been writing a lot this week!! Our next project with our online buddies is to create a VoiceThread to teach them a math game from Math Trailblazers. Announcement: The food drive is going on at Kennedy, so please bring non-perishable foods. Dominika will be taking Speedy home this weekend! Today we have Music and Computer Lab. We also made our first VoiceThread today. It’s like a mini-movie. Click the link below to check it out:
http://voicethread.com/share/224433/
ds) of books and he taught the kids that they were all authors, too! This week we used the Activotes (the eggs) to review for our Reading Cycle Test. In Math we worked on Magic Squares, which are squares where each line equals the same sum. On Wednesday we had a very special visitor. Mr. Bren, an artist, came to visit Kennedy School. He started Project Smile, where he leaves his paintings for people to take for FREE! But the new owner has to promise to smile more often! We went to an all school assembly to learn about his project, and then he visited Room 203 to teach us how to draw his creations. He’s so cool! He gave our school one of his paintings. We are so lucky! If you come to Kennedy School you will see lots of smiling kids & teachers! This week we’ve been working on the Halloween Story with our online buddies in Mount Prospect. We write a little of the story, and then they continue where we left on. We are using Google Documents to share and work together on a story. We can’t wait to show you our story when it’s done. We sure have been writing a lot this week!! Our next project with our online buddies is to create a VoiceThread to teach them a math game from Math Trailblazers. Announcement: The food drive is going on at Kennedy, so please bring non-perishable foods. Dominika will be taking Speedy home this weekend! Today we have Music and Computer Lab. We also made our first VoiceThread today. It’s like a mini-movie. Click the link below to check it out:http://voicethread.com/share/224433/
Have a good weekend!
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