today me and Riley are blogging.

Welcome back!

We are back!  I hope that all of you had a relaxing and refreshing break.  As we get back into "school-mode" we are getting excited about a bunch of new things.  We will be exploring new book group books.  Students are digging into some new non-fiction books, and we are reviewing some of the features that we use to navigate these texts.  Ask your student what their favorite feature is, and ask them what the verso-page is!  The following photos were taken during our first exploratory time with our books.

Some of the subjects are; Swifts, a crooked legged horse, and "the Asian unicorn."

We have also started working on division in math.  For the few weeks before break we were working on multiplying groups of numbers together, and now we are working on figuring out how many groups of numbers are contained within others.

Finally we have continued our investigation into the mysterious world of electricity and magnetism.  We are currently working on creating mini electric motors.  Through this work students are working on design questions to make these work, as well as understanding how these motors work.  The motors we are building function on the principle that a magnetic field is created when electricity passes through a coil of copper.  Talk to your students about the frustrating problems that they had to overcome to make these motors.

Today we  shanich  and manite



love Ivy
 

today, we had P.E.in the hobbit filly and killy died (in the hobbit). i love today.




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from Riley reed  :)




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Today we had P.E. and it was funny. I am volition for Jay ( Riley ). It was fun today because we are all exited for valentines day.   

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from Riley Reed

Back in the saddle

Well, we have been back in business for two days now, and I have just realized that I failed to post last Friday.  As a snow lover, I thoroughly enjoyed the day, and was able to ski and play in the snow.  As for our class, we have been working on all sorts of things lately.  In math we have continued working on multiplication by using different strategies.  Students are practicing the different patterns that are common in multiplication.  We have also been using some very interesting technology, ask your student about the tablet we have been using, it is really mind blowing.  We have also been working on our lego dancing birds!  Check out the photo album on the side-bar of our blog.  This lego design build unit has really been fascinating as students have had to work collaboratively, solve some difficult problems.  We are also pressing forward in the Hobbit and are currently inside the Lonely Mountain as Smaug is not at home.  I will update this blog again at the end of the week, and please keep checking in for student posts!

Today we made dancing bird.