Week 17- School Play & Factors

This week on the reading test my students had to write about someone who inspires them. Riley made my day when she wrote about me.



We have been learning about factors in math so here are a few of the pages we made in our interactive notebooks for math. On this page we listed our vocabulary on different colored sticky notes. You can see the way we do factors. We call them factor rainbows. It helps the kids know when to stop listing factors. When you get to the other side of the rainbow you're finished.



Mrs. James, our math coach, came in Thursday and made a flipbook with the kids too. They also solved some fun math puzzles. She left me a 10,000 chart. I've never seen a chart so big! I plan to put it up next week and start using it when we return from Christmas break.



Today the drama club performed their play, Hansel and Gretal. Ryan and Colette were the lead actors.







I had several students in the school drama club and I'm so proud of each and every one of them. Their performance was amazing!



STUDENTS: It is almost time for Christmas break. Tell us about a Christmas tradition your family has.

Week 17

Wow, this was a week full of activities! The week started with Mrs. James, our new math coach, coming in to do a math lesson on LCM.



We played games and learned how to use the cake method to find LCM & GCF.





Mrs. Pierce came in and helped us make a candy cane wreath. It seemed like there were candy canes everywhere!





In science, we are learning about the circulatory system. So we made a model of the blood to learn about the different parts of the blood. We used water, rice, red hots, and marshmallows. Some of the kids had more white blood cells that others and that meant they were sick.



Mrs. McBrayer helped us make a gingerbread ornament. The kids added their picture to it.

The faculty had our annual get together for Christmas. We had snacks and had a fun spending time with friends!

Mrs. Warren helped us make candy cane ornaments this week as well. The kids had a lot of fun decorating their hearts and adding glitter to it!




Mrs. McNabb made ornaments with snow, ribbons, and paper inside.





Can you tell we are ready for the holiday break?

STUDENTS: It is almost time for our holiday break. I know we are all excited about having time to spend with family and friends (and no homework). So, what do you want for Christmas?