Christmas week pictures
Despite being a short week, there were lots of opportunities for pictures! Activities included:
Polar Express Day activities such as surveying and graphing during Math, train car word sorts, hot chocolate treat during the movie, and discovering our bells in our backpacks
Creating congruent Christmas shapes on our geoboards
Christmas Party day activities
week 18 pictures
Pictures in this week’s album include:
More finished Advent wreaths
Myer’s Friday Journal Report
adorable pictures of the students all dressed up for the Christmas program!
Week 18 Sentinel
Week 17 pictures
This week’s pictures include:
measuring with non-standard feet and ruler feet
our visit from Ryan Sweeney, Myer’s dad, to end our unit on baseball
making polygons on geoboards to learn about angles
playing a spinner game in Spelling to practice the long u spelling patterns
partner reading an article on beavers
MJ’s Friday Journal Report from last week
finishing up our Advent wreath project
Week 17 Sentinel
Week 16 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
counting money amounts with dimes, nickels, and pennies.
making our SymmeTREEs!
going fishing for plurals and possessives to practice using them correctly
Warren’s Friday Journal Report
measuring ingredients as we followed a recipe in Math
making candy cane ornaments and then hanging them on the tree in the church foyer.
Week 16 Sentinel
Week 15 pictures
Pictures in this week’s album include:
Working as partners, then small groups, and finally as a class to put 2-digit numbers in order from greatest to least
Reviewing continents and oceans with a game
Completing gratitude feathers for each of our classmates, passing them out, then enjoying reading them
Our completed Pilgrim or Wampanoag Main Idea and Detail turkeys, where we used an article that we marked as our information
Week 14 pictures
This week’s pictures include:
partner state search
practicing identifying continents along with a song
playing a homophone game with a partner
Common and proper Noun scoot (we scooted around the room to answer a question on each desk)
a visit from one of our Senior Buddies, Don Lohrentz
Ella’s Friday Journal report
long ‘o’ word sort
visiting the 3rd Grade Writer’s Tea
Week 14 Sentinel
Week 13 pictures
This week’s pictures include:
Playing “Don’t Get Eaten” as we acted out the prairie food web. This year we had 3 survivors!
Prairie animal riddle projects
Our visit from Sergeant Porras, Brooklyn’s dad, as he taught us about working together as a police officer
Playing “Guess my missing addend” with a partner as we practiced adding 10 to a number on the 100 chart
Chase’s Friday Journal Report
Week 13 Sentinel
Week 12 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
Roll and compare math game- we used digit dice to roll 2 numbers, created the biggest and smallest 2-digit number that we could, then compared it to our partner’s to see who made the biggest that round. We tallied our points too!
Apple taste test and graph- we reviewed dividing a whole into fractional parts as we cut up the apples. Then we each tasted a red, yellow, and green apple piece to determine which was our favorite, and graphed our results.
Noun posters
Excited for the pep rally volleyball game
Digraph word building- we worked on our phonemic awareness and manipulation skills as we practiced making words with digraphs, either with milkcap letters or sound cards
Toothy game
Gabe’s Friday Journal report
Nonstandard measuring with color tiles
Week 12 Sentinel
Week 11 pictures
This week’s pictures include:
Daily D.E.A.R. time as part of Literacy Week (Drop Everything and Read)
Classroom recess for the 1st time this year
Having Jr. High students share their cartoons as part of Literacy Week
Buddy reading with 4th grade in the gym as part of Literacy Week
Creating our prairie plants using various craft supplies to show the design of the plant
Creating Luther’s Seal using the dot-dot Seurat art technique of pointillism
The family read-aloud Zoom recording (in case you missed it on Thursday!)
Shopping for our free book pick as our Literacy Week treat
Using Binary Code to figure out the Halloween color-by-number color names
Sequencing the events of Martin Luther’s life by gluing them on the church door, just like he nailed the 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on the first Reformation Day
Bible verse coloring page that we sent to our Senior Buddies as a Literacy Week project.
Week 11 Sentinel
Week 10 pictures
This week’s album shows:
Math experiment: we practiced using tally marks to keep track of heads or tails results on a coin toss.
Seed design experiment: we made models of a spinner, rotocopter, or glider seed and experimented with where to position the seed head so that when we dropped it (simulating falling off a tree) it would be most likely to land outside the “Zone of Darkness” so it would be more likely to grow into a new plant!
Modeling a horizontal line in Math as we learned about vertical, horizontal and oblique lines.
Silent interviews: we practiced writing questions for a friend, exchanging papers, then writing a statement answer back. Enjoy our silent film!
After reading about how many seeds are in various fruits, we each placed an estimation into Bethany’s contest to guess the number of seeds in a pumpkin.