Student Written Class Update

This week's class blog update was written by 5 wonderful boys!

Please take a few minutes to read what they have written and write a comment!  We appreciate it!

Science Update by James:  The chicks are finally in the incubator and should hatch in a few weeks. Everyone is very excited to see the baby chicks. We are also doing work related to the development of the chicks such examining photos and responding to questions on a Chick Google Classroom. Once the chicks hatch they will be returned to their rightful owners. We hope that all the chicks hatch!

Writing Update by Jared: This writing unit is called "Writing Behind The Photo".  We all brought in a family photo to write about. Everyone described what happened before, during, and after the photo. Using Google

Drive, we typed a draft of our before, during, or after story. Our next steps will be to revise, edit, publish and share our stories with the whole class! We are all so excited! 

Field Trip Update by Zachary:

We just had an amazing field trip to The Long Island Science Museum. Each class had 2 activities to do. It was so much fun! The 2 activities were learning about animals(mammals and cold blooded animals) and learning how to use a compass. We went on a scavenger hunt using the compasses. There was a card every time we got to the place we needed to get to. The card always said turn the dial to something degrees and take a certain amount of paces. Each pace is equal to 2 steps. If the card said 26 paces north then we would take 52 steps north. At the end of the hunt we found treasure. It had 1 doubloon and 1 stamp for each student in this class. Then we went inside to see the animals. The women that taught us about the animals was very nice. We saw a turtle, snake, lizard, bunny and tortoise. It was the best field trip ever!

Reading Update by Evan:  In our fantasy unit so far, we have been studying elements of fantasy. We started a new fantasy book called Spiderwick Chronicles. From the few chapters we have read, some kids think the book is creepy and some kids not so much. The class really likes the book. We are keeping track of the elements of fantasy by using a bookmark that has the elements of fantasy listed on it. Here are the elements: 

1) TALKING ANIMALS OR OBJECTS 

2) MAGICAL POWERS 

3) MEDIEVAL OR MYTHICAL ELEMENTS   

We hope you have learned more about the unit in reading we are doing.  

Technology Update by John: We have been doing some fun things in computer lab. We created fake text messages between two main characters from a book we chose! We each picked one of our independent books and pretended the main characters were talking to each other. We all went on a website to create text messages. We made up what the characters would be saying to each other to give some details about the book and prove our understanding of the book. Everyone liked it a lot. We printed the texts out on paper and hung them around the room. It really looked like a texting screen. Everyone said it was fun!