Highlights of the Week

Working together to sequence information about the life of Snowflake Bentley

We read biographies all week and practiced finding information in the text through repeated readings.

Students worked in groups to put the major events of Snowflake Bentley's life in order, then we sorted it into a class anchor chart to capture our thinking.

Our Mystery Science work about bridges had us engineering bridge designs.......

We could only use TWO pieces of paper to make the bridge....

Then we tested with pennies to see how many pennies our design would hold!

In reading workshop students worked to sequence and record important events in the subject's life.

On Tuesday we had an exciting visit with Chewonki and the Boston Museum of Science in the traveling planetarium!

We began by talking about the night sky and using binoculars.

We learned about the night sky before we went in.  Once inside we looked at stars and planets and constellations!

Another bridge design!

Students were riveted by the life of Harriet Tubman.  Her courage was impressive!

This group is planning their catapult - our lab of the week!

After designing catapults we recorded our hypotheses, materials and procedures.

Students worked together to measure how far their ping pong balls and cotton balls flew off the catapult they built.

On Monday we got familiar with catapults by using a big, wooden one to see what kind of distance the ping pong ball and cotton ball would get.

We learned a lot about Rosa Parks this week and used a timeline to sequence her life events.

The procedure page of a lab report

We are getting quite adept at making a hypothesis.

A little reading after selecting new books in library.

In math we learned how to use "Start Change End" diagrams to solve word problems.

We used open number lines as well!

In library Ms. Luchies had us Skype with author Deborah Bruss!

Our Scholastic News was about Linda Brown and separate NOT being equal.

Data, diagrams and conclusions are part of every lab report

We are learning that we can add two multi digit numbers in different ways.