Illustrating Figurative Language

The beauty of using figurative language is the visuals they create in the reader's mind as they encounter new ways of viewing situations.  Today we had the opportunity to read poems by Valerie Worth and look at her use of metaphors and similes.  

After reading each poem we created our mental images using the A Web Whiteboard website. You can check out our creations on our class website.

First Blogger of the Week: KS

KS is our first blogger of the week for the 2014-2015 school year.  Here is her entry.

In Spanish we have been making paper book bags and writing in stuff that would be in them. Then we are writing what the word is in Spanish next to the word. Like lapiz is pencil but we would draw a picture. Then we colored the book bag in. In Spanish it is mochila.

In our classroom in math, we have been doing multiplication and skip counting problems.

Today we had the laser light show! It was cool! There were characters from shows and superheroes from movies in lasers!!! It was awesome! There were lasers all over the place.They played songs and showed laser pictures to go with the song! It was so fun! It was on Halloween, October 31, 2014. It was in the gym. We were sitting on the ground.The teachers were sitting on chairs. We saw the lasers on the board in the gym. It was amazing.

Hour of Code

 This week we had so much fun stretching our coding skills. We have already created several projects with Scratch as part of our STEM unit this trimester and this week we played around with Tynker.


















Tuesday night the district hosted an Hour of Code night where students got to share their experiences and more students had an opportunity to code, perhaps for the first time.













Two students from our class showed off their skills too!

Book Recommendations Using Voki

If you are in need of a suggestion for a great book to read, we can help.  We have created some book suggestions using Voki. Click below to learn more.

FIRST Class Blogger of the Week: KS

KS is our first blogger of the week for the 2014-2015 school year.  Here is her entry.

In Spanish we have been making paper book bags and writing in stuff that would be in them. Then we are writing what the word is in Spanish next to the word. Like lapiz is pencil but we would draw a picture. Then we colored the book bag in. In Spanish it is mochila.

In our classroom in math, we have been doing multiplication and skip counting problems.

Today we had the laser light show! It was cool! There were characters from shows and superheroes from movies in lasers!!! It was awesome! There were lasers all over the place.They played songs and showed laser pictures to go with the song! It was so fun! It was on Halloween, October 31, 2014. It was in the gym. We were sitting on the ground.The teachers were sitting on chairs. We saw the lasers on the board in the gym. It was amazing.

Solving Addition and Subtraction Word Problems- Check!

This week the class prepared for an end of the unit assessment of rounding, place value, and solving addition and subtraction problems.  Those word problems can be very tricky when you are trying to figure out which operation to use.  Today we worked in groups to underline key information in the problems written by 3-Langenmayr.

 Then, we found the numbers that represented parts or wholes for our formula P + P = W.  The group then sorted the problems into the two groups: addition or subtraction. Next, we solved the problems on our own in our notebook.

 

The last step was to check our answers using the ScanQR Chrome app.

This was a quick and easy way to check our work!

A Little Help from My Friend Google

We have been hard at work researching the seven continents using the book Explore Earth's Seven Continents.  After receiving "text-dependent" questions through Google Classroom, we set off to read and answer.   Some of the questions had some unknown words and the class learned a new trick. Instead of asking a teacher, students learned to use the Tools in Google Docs.
First we highlighted the word we wanted to define and clicked on "Tools"...

Then we clicked on "Define"...

And on the side a Research window popped up with the definition!

Maybe Google can correct and grade our documents too...

Ah but it can!