Line Plot

We measure paper strips, recorded the lengths, then made a line plot to show our data.

Emma's Friday Journal Report

Uploaded by Kari Janetzke on 2017-03-10.

Follow those footprints!

We traced our foot, cut it out, and used our foot to measure distances around our school.  We each measured our own foot and saw that none of our feet are actually 1 foot! We also graphed the sizes of our feet and saw that we have various sizes of feet in our classroom which again means we need to have a standard foot unit of measurement.  

Uploaded by Kari Janetzke on 2017-03-09.

Exploring Non-Standard Measurement

We worked as a team to measure with crayons, cubes and people feet to determine how accurate these tools were as units of measurement.  None of our results completely matched throughout the class!  We realized we have a need for standard units of measurement.  

Making a Pictograph

We surveyed our classmates, created a tally chart with the information, then turned made a tally chart to show the information. We also had to write questions about our graph for a classmate and Mrs. Janetzke to solve!

Writing organization

As we work on our paragraph organization we talk about how to color-code the information in our paragraphs based on their purpose.  Blue is our Lead, Green is our Topic and Conclusion sentences, Yellow is our Key/Star Ideas and Red are the E's (Evidence, Examples, Extra Information).  Here we're doing partner-work to color-code an example paragraph.

More Paleontologist work!

We enjoyed playing Construct-a-saurus on the computer, reading dinosaur books, playing dinosaur games, digging for fossils in clay, examining real fossils, and trying to put dinosaur skeleton puzzles together.  We all concluded the same thing- being a paleontologist is time-consuming, difficult and sometimes frustrating work, but it can be very rewarding when we figure it out!

Valentine's Day activities

From special games and lessons in the classroom to the party the room parents planned at the end of the day, we LOVED Valentine's Day!

Practicing being a paleontologist

We got our first "taste" of what it's like to be a paleontologist as we had to carefully dig the fossils (chocolate chips) out of the rock (cookie). 

Josh's Friday Journal Report

Uploaded by Kari Janetzke on 2017-02-24.

Sign Language

Our Reading story, Dear Juno, talked about creative ways to communicate.  We went to a website in computer class to learn the sign language alphabet and then we tested ourselves by seeing if we could figure out the words spelled in sign language.  

Molly's Friday Journal Report

Uploaded by Kari Janetzke on 2017-02-17.

President's Day

We learned about both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  Since Presidents have to work with a team, we did teamwork projects.  We worked in pairs to partner read a book about George Washington.  Then, we worked together to write down important facts we learned that we wanted to teach our classmates.  We also worked together on illustrating George based on the book we read.  We then presented our posters to our classmates and were shocked to learn so many different facts about George's spies, teeth, dogs and life!

A-Z Mysteries Character Dress Day

We had fun dressing as our favorite characters from our New Year Dragon Dilemma novel study!

Katharina's Friday Journal Report

Uploaded by Kari Janetzke on 2017-02-13.