Weekly Update-May 17th

Dear Families,

It has been a super week here in room 27.  Check out what the children have to say!

-Alites

Book Clubs

By: Madeline, Sakina and Steph 

We started book clubs. Each group was assigned a book which was either: Wonder, Pinball’s, The Giver or Welcome Home Jellybean. Each week we read up to a certain page. On Friday we have a discussion about our book. We take notes on the ipad at the end of the session. Every week there is a new discussion leader who leads the group. This week as we are reading we are jotting down questions about the book on post-it notes to discuss with our group. We love our book clubs!

Career Day

By Austin, Adam and Daniel

 Career day is when the parents come in and talk about their jobs.  First, Mrs. Ajah came in and talked about her being a lawyer.  Then Mr. Garten came in and talked about him being a different type of lawyer.  Then, Mr. Garten told us about how he works for Donald Trump at the Trump Tower.  He also travels a lot like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Cancun, Israel, etc. He even brought us Trump chocolate bars and an autographed picture.

Immigration

By Michael and Steven

This week in social studies we learned about immigration. The teachers read us two books about immigration. The  two books are called Peppe, the Lamplighter and American Too. We learned about the tough living conditions that the immigrants of the 1880s had to face. We also continue to learn about our family’s heritage. We hope to learn more about immigrants and our family’s heritage.

Math Quest

By Brian, PJ and Jared

 In school, we are participating in a math challenge called Math Quest. In Math Quest, we are split into 4 teams. The Funky Factors are Brian, PJ, Madeline, Steph and Kyra. The Fab+Five are Jared, Logan, Adam, Trevor and Steven. The Brainy Bunch is Rachel, Sanjyot, Caitlin, Daniel and Chris. The Mathappers are Austin, Michael, Rebecca, Emilie, and Sakina. In Math Quest, we are solving word problems for units like Charts, Guess & Check and Draw a Picture. We solve problems for points and at the end, whoever has the most points wins!  We also have Fate Cards that are games of chance that can improve or lessen your standing in the game.

Check out some pictures of us working with our teams below!

Science

By Chris, Logan and Sanjyot

In Science, we were given a study packet for a test this upcoming Monday. Our teachers’ gave us a questioner packet to use with our study packet. In Science, we played a Jeopardy game in preparation for the test. On Wednesday, we did a PowerPoint on assigned science topics that we will present to the class.  We are excited to be the teachers. We are going to ace this test!!!!!

States and Capitals

By Caitlin, Kyra, and Trevor

We are learning about the Midwest this week. Some of the states are Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa etc. We are given our states on Monday and we write the state on one side and the capital on the other side of an index card.  For the rest of the week we have to study, study, study, with our study guides. So far we have covered the Northeast, Southeast, and the Southwest regions of the United States. We are learning new states and capitals everyday!!!

Reading Buddies

By Rachel, Becca, and Emilie

For the past two weeks, we have been doing a reading program with our 1^st grade buddies. We all watch a video called Martha Speaks and then we ask our buddies questions about the video. Every week we have a few vocabulary words that are related to the video. Then we read a special book together that has to do with the words. We ask our buddies questions about the book.  We also play a game with our buddy that reinforces the new vocabulary words. Last week we made dog super heroes out of brown paper bags. Finally, we do a little writing activity to finish it off. We love reading with our buddies!  

Math Quest Challenge