A Carousel Food Web for Unwanted Kings

This week went by fast as we did a lot of review and practice in English. The class finished working with quotation marks and then moved onto review of alphabetical order and capitalization. The students also were able to finish their George Washington biographies they had started a while back. I was very impressed with how much detail some of the students put into their biographies. In reading, we read the story Carousel and discussed how it was related to the other stories in the unit. The students decided that Carousel was like the other stories because in each one, some type of object or food was created. In this story, a young girl received a hand made carousel from her father for her birthday.

Solids, Quotations and the tastiest Jalapeno Bagels

Since I have officially gotten into full day teaching, the grading has become more intense. From now on, I will only be posting what happens in the classroom weekly rather than every day. I start writing just a few things and end up with a huge post each day. Anyways, this week was quite the interesting one. First off in math this week, the students learned all about the geometric solids (cone, cube, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, and pyramid). We had a really fun time trying to figure out what kinds of shadows each of the shapes would make depending on which side the light was shown on. The students also learned about measuring using metric units, mainly centimeters. The students were able to understand this concept easily as they already had practice using the inches side of the ruler to measuring lengths of different objects. The last thing they learned in math was how to find the perimeter of an object by measuring and adding up each of the sides. We did an interesting activity where the students had to find the perimeter of their desks, the room and other objects in the room.