Our Field Trips

Here are some pictures of our class during our field trips and labs.

Devin being silly!

Mia and Preston receiving a dance lesson during the Guadalupe Dance Center Program.

 We made Yucky, Ooey, Gooey Gunk in class!

Emily is learning about the forces of gravity and buoyancy at the Witte Museum.

A puppet show by J'Lee, Richard and Gavynne.

The kids are giving the weather forecast in front of a green screen.

Our class in a hot log cabin.

Overview of the week of Oct. 10 - Oct. 14

"And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." 
~Thomas Wayne from Batman Begins (2005)


It is okay to fall as long as you learn from your mistakes.  This can be applied to life, school, sports, and friendships.  If no one made any mistakes many of our greatest inventions would have never developed.  Our class is learning that the best way to learn is from your mistakes.  


Announcements:
The Grand Canyon reservation money is due by October 14th.


We are looking for volunteers to help run our booth on Oct. 28th during Harvest Fest.  You can sign up for 30 minute or 1 hour time slots.


Monday

• Begin fiction
• Story Maps
• Greatest Common Factor
• Finish Graphs from Walking Lab
• Voting in the USA

Tuesday

• Finish story maps
• Summarization/Subordinating Conjunctions
• Multiples - Least Common Multiple
• Rolling Derby Lab
• Caribbean and Mexico Maps

Wednesday

• Dialogue & Conversations
• Quotation Marks
• Multiples and LCM
• Downhill Racer
• How do you imagine the Caribbean?

Thursday

• Theme, Point of View
• Indefinite Pronoun
• Factors, Multiples, and Equivalent Fractions
• Motion and Forces Test

Friday

• Library Day - Check out a fiction book
• Factors and Multiples Test
• Get ready for food day presentation

Bill of Rights

Today we are going figure out what it means to be a true American citizen.  This privilege comes with many rights, as well as, many responsibilities.  Below are kid friendly definitions of the ten bill of rights. Use these below to match your rights to your responsibilities with your partner.

Bill of Rights:

• Congress can't make any law about your religion, or stop you from practicing your religion, or keep you from saying whatever you want, or publishing whatever you want (like in a newspaper or a book). And Congress can't stop you from meeting peacefully for a demonstration to ask the government to change something.

• Congress can't stop people from having and carrying weapons, because we need to be able to defend ourselves.

• You don't have to let soldiers live in your house, except if there is a war, and even then only if Congress has passed a law about it.

• Nobody can search your body, or your house, or your papers and things, unless they can prove to a judge that they have a good reason to think you have committed a crime.

• You can't be tried for any serious crime without a Grand Jury meeting first to decide whether there's enough evidence for a trial. And if the jury decides you are innocent, the government can't try again with another jury. You don't have to say anything at your trial. You can't be killed, or put in jail, or fined, unless you were convicted of a crime by a jury. And the government can't take your house or your farm or anything that is yours, unless the government pays for it.

• If you're arrested, you have a right to have your trial pretty soon, and the government can't keep you in jail without trying you. The trial has to be public, so everyone knows what is happening. The case has to be decided by a jury of ordinary people from your area. You have the right to know what you are accused of, to see and hear the people who are witnesses against you, to have the government help you get witnesses on your side, and you have the right to a lawyer to help you.

• You also have the right to a jury when it is a civil case (a law case between two people rather than between you and the government).

• The government can't make you pay more than is reasonable in bail or in fines, and the government can't order you to have cruel or unusual punishments (like torture) even if you are convicted of a crime.

• Just because these rights are listed in the Constitution doesn't mean that you don't have other rights too.

• Anything that the Constitution doesn't say that Congress can do should be left up to the states, or to the people.

Prime and Composite Numbers

Use the website below to practice with prime and composite numbers

Prime and Composite Numbers

Practice identifying the prime and composite numbers in the orange section.  Once you have it down, play the timed games from the yellow section.

Have fun!

Overview for the week of Oct. 3 - Oct. 7

School is in full swing and we have been having a blast.  Everyone has been working very hard, and I am proud of the effort!  We have an exciting field trip planned this Friday to the Witte Musuem.  We are going to see an exciting program called "What floats your boat?'

Monday

• Discussion of memories
• Draw storyboard/comic of memory
• Review of Prime & Composite Numbers
• Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures Lab

Tuesday

• How do memoirs work?
• Write rough draft of memory memoir
• Continue review of prime/composite numbers
• Factor Trees
• Rights & Responsibilities

Wednesday

• Writing with the senses
• Finish rough draft, begin editing
• Factor Trees
• Force and Motion
• Walking Lab pt. 1
• The Power to Chose

Thursday

• STAAR Practice Passage
• Peer editing of stories
• Greatest Common Factor
• Finish Walking Lab
• Alert the congressman

Friday

• Memoir Due
• Spelling Test
• Witte Museum Field Trip!