Pi day was a success!! We created over 100 digits of Pi to hang in our hallways!
Also congrats to our runners up in the memorizing Pi competition! They include: Belle Easton, Joey Travis,  Juliana Vogel, Josh Schaffer, and Sarah Olnhausen. Our WINNER, with 154 numbers was....Jared Hallgren!!!! Please see pictures below!

Pi Week

We have some great activities we will be doing to celebrate Pi day- 3/14!

Your child will receive a handout today of the first 100 digits of pi.  The student to memorize the most digits by Thursday at 12:30 will have the opportunity to smash a whipped cream pie in MY FACE!  It should be a great time!

We will continue reading The Watsons Go To Birmingham in reading and also continue with our argument paragraph in writing.

No school for kids on Friday 3/13!

Spelling Bee Winner!!

Congrats to Sam Ramsey for becoming our class spelling bee champion!!

Great job to Sarah Olnhausen who was our runner up!

Sam will participate in the 6th Grade spelling bee on March 10th!!  Good luck Sam

What's the Deal??? Where have I been?

I apologize for the lack of postings on my part!  I have a lot of great things I need to post, along with pictures of some great things we have been doing!

This week:

Math- we are working on data: collecting and analyzing.
Writing- your children have become quite the poets!  We are publishing our very own poetry books!  We will be presenting these to the class on Friday so look for those to come home!
Reading- we are working on African American Literacy Centers for Black History Month.   Next week we will begin my favorite novel, Watsons Go To Birmingham.

Please check back next week to see some great things that are happening in our classroom!

Dialogue Lesson

The students had to cut out sentences, punctuation, and dialogue tags and piece them together to form appropriate sentences!  I am hoping they will be adding fantastic dialogue to their personal narrative essays we will write next week!

Hello November!!

I apologize that I missed a week or two!

We have been doing some great things in the classroom and I am thoroughly enjoying having your children in my class!

Next week are parent/teacher conferences and I look forward to meeting all of you who signed up!  If you don't feel a conference is necessary at this time, but have a few questions, please feel free to email me anytime!! tara.wood@mybedford.us

We are multiplying fractions in math!  This entails A LOT of steps for one problem so if your child is having difficulty, please refer them to their math notes.  They have step-by-step notes to take them through a problem!

We began writing personal narratives in writing and we are also working on dialogue!  Punctuating dialogue is a tough task, but we had a fun lesson with it today!  I will post pictures of some of the students and their work!

In reading, we have been focusing on nonfiction text.  Some topics we have covered are the civil war, Alexander Graham Bell, Employment, and cake!  The students received their new AR goal for the 2nd quarter.  Please be sure your child is reading EVERY night for at least 30 minutes!

Next week,  your children have a Veteran's Day assembly on Tuesday, a half day on Wednesday, a half day on Thursday and a full day on Friday.

10/13-10/17

Happy Monday!  It looks like it is going to be a rainy week.

In math, we are reviewing percents and will have a quiz on Wednesday!  Your child will need to know how to go from fraction to decimal to percent.  They will also need to know that percent means out of 100 and how to shade that on a hundreds grid.  Everything your child has been doing in class and for homework the last week can be used to study for the quiz.  Thursday, we will begin rate, ratio, and proportions.

In writing, we are continuing descriptive writing.  I will bring my German Shorthaired Pointer into writing class on Thursday so the students can write a descriptive piece on him.  His name is Riley and he has been coming to class with me a couple times a year for 7 years!  He loves kids.  The children write better than ever when they have the object right in front of them as they write and when the object is exciting!

In Reading, we will be finishing up the novel, Hatchet, and watching the movie on Thursday and Friday.  Please be sure your child is striving to make their AR goal.  Hatchet is worth 7 points, if they answer all the questions correctly.  AR and the quarter end on October 30th.

Please also continue to check HAC and be sure your child is turning in all of their assignments!

Have a great week :)