No Name Calling Week

Today we have two new guest bloggers to tell you about our week.  

In  math we are learning about exponential notation, expanded notation, and scientific notation.  We have come up with a new invention, a flip book. It is like an SRB. It gives you the information you need and examples with it.  

In reading we are doing think notes.  We put a sticky note on the page and code it with a Q for question, P for prediction, C for connection and V for visualize.  We are reading Number the Stars.  This takes place during WW II.  It is about a girl named Annemarie and her friend Ellen, who is Jewish.  Nazis are trying to track her down.  Annemarie’s family is helping to hide Ellen and her family.  

In writing, some of us are getting ready to publish our personal narratives.  Everyone will be completing this next week.  We will be moving on to narrative essays in the next few weeks.

In science we are learning about soil.  In social studies we are learning about different colonies.  We found out that in Jamestown Colony there was a man named John Smith.  He persuaded the people to work.  There is famous saying that he said to them:  “Those who shall not work, shall not eat.”   Next week we will start colony projects.

This week is No Name Calling Week.  We are making a class poster with a slogan.  We picked “Don’t be a porcupine, be a teddy bear.”  The porcupine has lots of unkind words and makes people feel hurt.  The teddy bear has lots of kind words, and makes you feel happy and liked.  We all wrote a leadership paper.  Some of us will present these to the whole school next Tuesday.  We also read a book called, Trouble Talk which was about bullying and name calling.  We had a discussion about name calling.

           Also, we are doing Jump Rope for Heart in health class.  We are raising money for children with heart disease.