It sounds like everyone had a good Spring Break with your families, with many students sharing on Monday what they did during their week off. Before the break, we learned the basics of an electrical circuit and Ms. Harris led the class in some experiments to try to make a light bulb turn on...
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Welcome back from spring break! We are eager to get back into the swing of things.  Ms. Gereau has begun her six weeks of solo teaching and is ready to hit the ground running.  We are finishing up our geometry unit in math and we will beginning our big number unit later this week....
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This week in Math we are reviewing concepts in preparation for the OAKS state test We also are studying probability this week. We finished out simulation of the Mayflower colony in Social Studies, so we are reading about the early colonies out of the US AND ITS NEIGHBORS textbook this week. We are finishing...
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Welcome back! I hope everybody had a good week away from school. My wife and I took a few days to see the sights in San Diego and get a little sunshine. I am looking forward to hearing about what our Room 24 students were up to during vacation. We are starting a couple...
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Happy spring! It is hard to believe, given the rainy, cold weather. I hope that despite this, you all will have a wonderful break. Before we say our goodbyes, however, we have a lot we are working on in Room 23! This week, we started our new unit in Math. We are studying area...
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In Mathematics, we have completed Unit Four: Multiplication and Division Patterns & Concepts. The students have been working on the basic Multiplication facts as part of the learning in this unit. Instead of memorizing the facts, the students have been making sense of them by learning strategies that will help them solve the facts....
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The level of ingenuity and creativity found in the most recent Theory of Knowledge projects is outstanding. With 96% of the class participating, students were treated to a wonderful array of demonstrations, dioramas, and the ever-popular, live animals. On Tuesday, we watched several students present truly interesting projects, and we cannot wait for the...
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We had some excitement in our classroom this last week. Apparently, a naughty little leprechaun would sneak into our room each night and create havoc, then leave us a note. One night he dumped over some classroom materials and another time he tipped every chair over. each. The children would leave him lots of...
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We are starting our final week of our weather unit! This week we will be learning all about big storms: tornados, lighting storms, and hurricanes!  We will be exploring the calm eye of hurricanes as well as studying the swirling patterns of the storms.  Balloons will be helping us understand static electricity as it’s...
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It is hard to believe Spring break is just about here! This is the time of year where the kids’ reading and writing really take off. It is so much fun to see how proud they are of themselves! Our lead story this week is a fun one called My Lucky Day, by Keiko...
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Only a few days until Spring Break and we are working away in Room 22. We have begun the rough drafts of our persuasive essays and they are going quite well. Students have been honing their opinion statements and we have been talking a lot about have word choice can help persuade the reader....
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Last week we started our Unique Learning System’s unit on “Electricity”. We read articles about what electricity is and how it’s used in our daily lives. We also read and compared how electricity has made life more convenient today than it was for our ancestors. Mr. Post brought in an old laptop that he...
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We have many deadlines and tests this week since we are finishing up a few units. In Language Arts, we finished Pilgrim Stories today/Wednesday, so all the 18 chapter assignments, vocabulary, definitions are due Thursday. We finished the simulation Mayflower game in Social Studies, so all the worksheets in the binders were due Wednesday/today....
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Well, we survived the tests. Lewis and Clark, Math, and Science. The math test on decimals came home with students on Friday, so look for it in your child’s back pack. The results were mixed, but I have to say that one common area of weakness was not with decimals, but with basic subtraction...
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Good Week! Our new blog address is marchyok.blogspot.com. Posterous was bought by Twitter and ending. Hmph!!! We didn’t need you anyway, posterous! In math, which will be mostly review, the students will be finishing a non-graded assessment reviewing the year so far. We will go over answers and make sure we are all on...
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It’s a work in progress… Bookmark, please. http://marchyok.blogspot.com/  
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As part of our yearlong study of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet we will start to study his paintings that were inspired by living in the small village of Giverny, France. In 1890 Monet became the owner of a home and the gardens that surrounded it. He gradually transformed the gardens into a place...
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There does not seem to be enough hours in the school day to accomplish all that we want to do these days! The introduction of our third grade unit on Portland has been enthusiastically received, and students are continually asking for more time to explore The Clearing. We have been learning about Multnomah Native...
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We are having a wonderful week in Room 23! We just finished our theme book, Bud, Not Buddy. It was a compelling story of a young African American boy, who was an orphan and finally found his way back to his family and a new and better life. Please ask your child their thoughts...
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We came back to several sprouting seeds on Monday morning. We completed our second scientific observation on Tuesday – recording the changes we saw. We will continue to record changes up until Spring break. In literacy this week we will be finishing up the worktime centers with the story Hide, Clyde and then move...
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As we move towards Spring Break (less than two weeks away!) we are beginning to wrap up a few of our units of study. In math, we are cementing our understanding of decimals by learning some fun games that require us to convert fractions to decimals, place decimals on a number line, and add...
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